In recent years, international photographic teams traveling to Yushan to photograph the Formosan black bear have used the glaucous oak's fruit-bearing period in November and December, going to the Tafen area midway down the Lakulaku River, where the bears gather, to capture them on film.
近年到玉山拍攝台灣黑熊的國際攝影隊，就是利用青剛櫟結果期間的十一、二月，到黑熊聚集的拉庫拉庫溪中游大分地區去獵取鏡頭。