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Check out this drone video of a bear roaming around Iowa

Aaron Young
ayoung2@dmreg.com

It may not be the same bear that's roaming around Iowa's fields lately, but the video captured by Dean Brittenham is incredible.

A bear was spotted in Tama County on Monday, April 17, 2017. There have been at least two confirmed sightings of a young bear in Butler and Grundy counties, the Iowa Department of Natural Resources said in a Facebook post.

Brittenham, who used a drone when recording the bear on Monday in Garwin, catches it sitting in some brush near a creek.

The Iowa Department of Natural Resources said in a Facebook post Monday that there has been at least two bear sightings in Iowa over the past week. A "young male bear, likely 2  to 3 years old" was spotted in Grundy, Butler and Tama counties.

"It's likely to be the same bear, given the proximity of the sightings," the Iowa DNR said in its post on Monday, although nothing has been confirmed.

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The Iowa DNR recommended in its post that if you do come across this bear, or any bear for that matter: Give it "plenty of space and don't mess with it."

"That can create problems for both people and the bear," the post said.

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