Serving the Platte Valley since 1888
Serving the Platte Valley since 1888
Social media drove meteoric rise that anonymous creators tried to manage.
Grizzly 399's Instagram was prolific in the digital ecosystem and reached thousands of people with its posts and photographs. Screenshot from Instagram.
JACKSON - When Tenley Thompson decided to try being the voice of a famous grizzly bear online, she didn't start with Grizzly 399, the most famous bear in the world. Instead, she started with her daughter, Grizzly 610.
Unlike 399, who was relatively tolerant of human presence, 610 is known for having an attitude - a comportment that Thompson thought would play well on Twitter, which was ballooning at the time.
"She's charged plenty of people," Thompson said of 610. "My favorite is when they tried to push her off the Moose-Wilson Road with rubber bullets and she charged the patrol car and jumped...
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