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Animal expert, TV personality, and part-time Montana resident Jack Hanna is certain bear spray will fend off a grizzly bear, because on Saturday in Glacier National Park he was faced with a mother and her two yearlings.

Hanna and his wife were hiking along a park trail near Grinnell Glacier when they rounded a bend and came face to face with the family of grizzly bears.

The bears started toward Hanna, his wife, and three other nearby hikers, and that's when Hanna says one of the yearlings started charging.

Hanna acted fast, unloading bear spray in the direction of the bear, which he estimates weighed about 125 pounds.

He sprayed at about 20 feet, then again at about 15 feet, but it wasn't until the bear reached the group and was roughly ten feet away, that the bear smelled the spray and turned in the other direction.

Hanna says this is the first time he has ever been charged by a grizzly bear while out hiking in the wild and it shook him up.

Hanna tells us he is at his home in Bigfork filming a commercial and plans to visit Glacier again in the coming days.