← Marty Stouffer's Wild America · Season 6

Swamp Bear - Part 1

S6 · E1 · 04 Oct 1987 · 30 min

In the eerie backwater bayous of southern Louisiana's Atchafalaya Basin, Marty Stouffer poles a traditional pirogue to track the South's largest animal, a honey-loving legend. Clues lead to a Bobcat, Alligator, Snapping Turtle, and other animals which share this mysterious realm with an elusive phantom -- the Black Bear. Though large, it is now rare in these hardwood bottomlands.

Directing

Marty Stouffer · Director

Writing

William Howell · Writer