Wildlife ecologist Rae WynnGrant rates nine bear attacks in movies and TV shows, such as "Cocaine Bear," for realism.

WynnGrant breaks down the accuracy of brown bear and grizzlybear attacks, as well as the bears' physiology, in "The Revenant" (2015), starring Leonardo DiCaprio; "Game of Thrones" S3E7 (2013); "Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy" (2004), with Will Ferrell, Steve Carell, and Paul Rudd; and "The Edge" (1997), with Anthony Hopkins. She explains the realism of blackbear attacks and behavior in "Cocaine Bear" (2023) and "Backcountry" (2014). WynnGrant also looks at Po the giant panda in "Kung Fu Panda" (2008); the polar bears in "The Golden Compass" (2007), with Nicole Kidman and Daniel Craig; and the mutant bear in "Annihilation" (2018), with Natalie Portman.

WynnGrant is a largecarnivore ecologist who has been studying bears for the past 13 years. She has a doctorate in Ecology and Evolution. Her previous research includes humancarnivore conflict with grizzly bears in the Northern Great Plains and black bears in the Western Great Basin. She is a research faculty member at the University of California, Santa Barbara. She is also a research fellow with the National Geographic Society and a visiting scientist at the American Museum of Natural History.

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