I've had two camera's taken by bear, one an IR and one a flash. I build my own bear boxes now to keep my camera's safe and I lock my camera's tot he tree as well. The first camera I thought someone stole, but now i think it was a bear(I never did find the camera) but the second camera was laying about 8 feet from the tree and I was able to salvage it with some epoxy to the outer casing. No good pictures of the bear that tried to eat the camera either, just it's ear right before it took it off the tree.