Reddit reviews Among Grizzlies: Living with Wild Bears in Alaska

https://www.amazon.com/Among-Grizzlies-Living-Bears-Alaska/dp/0345426053

Here's the book he wrote.

There's also a whole gang of articles about his death from before the documentary came out. Not quite sure why you think the interviews seem staged.

I've seen bears a few times. They are rarely kept in zoos (you are more likely to find a lion in a zoo) but there is one zoo near my parent's summer cabin that has a couple. Also Clark's Trading Post is a weird little theme park that has trained bears.
I've never seen one in the wild, but I understand in the state north of me black bears getting into your garbage is commonplace.

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Bears are solitary omnivores. (Except for polar bears...which are carnivores). Because they can live off things other then meat they survive in woods too small to support a large pure carnivore...and are thus the biggest baddest predator left any where near here.


Black bears are the smallest, cutest, and least aggressive kind in the US. They are good climbers.
Grizzlies are bigger, more aggressive, and rarer. Their claws are more optimized for digging then climbing.


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A book by a guy who loved bears...

Among Grizzlies: Living with Wild Bears in Alaska: Timothy

..and a book about how that guy was killed by bears.

Death in the Grizzly Maze: The Timothy Treadwell Story

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Or if you want a comedy, Threadbear by Andrew Selpie is a novel about a magically animated teddy bear. More violent then it sounds

Read Treadwell's book: Among Grizzlies It was a damn good read.