Man Wrestling A Grizzly Bear

With his head deep in the wide, toothy mouth of a grizzly bear it's hard not to envisage tragedy on the horizon for Doug Seus.      But the veteran professional bear trainer will insist the terrifying image is all in a day's work.

For more than 40 years, the 71-year-old has been training grizzlies that have starred in Hollywood films, New footage shows Seus wrestling in his backyard with one of his bears, Bart 2, as if it is nothing more than a playful puppy.  Despite the 590kg bear's ability to crunch through human bones with its jaw, Seus happily lets Bart 2 wrap its mouth around his head, engulfing almost the entire thing to his neck. The grizzly pins him to the ground and appears to start chewing at his face before the simple command "Bart, off" prompts him to release his trainer.

"My passion for bears started in hiking and being out in the wild with them," Seus says. He says his job is "not teaching tricks ... but getting into the heart and soul of the bear".

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