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RE: Brown Bears (Info, Pics and Videos) - brotherbear - 05-09-2017
Momma Grizzly up a tree... http://www.bbc.com/news/av/world-europe-39827327/treetop-bears-trouble-town
RE: Brown Bears (Info, Pics and Videos) - Rishi - 05-09-2017
(05-09-2017, 12:58 PM)brotherbear Wrote: Momma Grizzly up a tree... http://www.bbc.com/news/av/world-europe-39827327/treetop-bears-trouble-town
It says Slovakia town, so shouldn't it be BrownBear??!!!
RE: Brown Bears (Info, Pics and Videos) - brotherbear - 05-09-2017
(05-09-2017, 03:15 PM)Rishi Wrote:(05-09-2017, 12:58 PM)brotherbear Wrote: Momma Grizzly up a tree... http://www.bbc.com/news/av/world-europe-39827327/treetop-bears-trouble-town
It says Slovakia town, so shouldn't it be BrownBear??!!!
The name "grizzly", even though it originated as the common name for Ursus arctos horribilis, has in more recent times become widely used, especially among Americans, for any brown bear. Thus we see documentaries such as "Land of 10,000 Grizzlies" ( about the Kamchatka brown bears ) or the book, "Gobi Grizzlies" ( about the brown bears of the Gobi desert ). I personally prefer grizzly over brown bear for a couple of reasons. First, not every bear of the color brown is of the Ursus arctos species. Second, lions are not called "maned cats", tigers "striped cats", or leopards "spotted cats." They each have their own individual common names. I figure that the grizzly deserves as much.
RE: Brown Bears (Info, Pics and Videos) - epaiva - 07-04-2017
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Brown bears of the Cantabrian Mountains of Spain are the smallest subspecies in the world with a head and body length 160 to 200 cm long and height at the shoulders 90-100 cm. Females weigh, on average, 85 kg but can reach a weight of 140 kg. Males average 115 kg though can weigh as much as 180 kg. In Spain, it is known as the Oso pardo cantábrico and, more locally, in Asturias as Osu. It is timid and will avoid human contact whenever possible. The Cantabrian brown bear can live for around 25–30 years in the wild.
RE: Brown Bears (Info, Pics and Videos) - Tshokwane - 07-07-2017
Credits to Bear Group (Facebook).
"Bear body language tips"
Sitting down, looking away, yawning, standing still. – All elaborate displays of disinterest or low levels of stress. These behaviors show respect or indicate that the bear is deliberately ignoring you and would like you to do likewise.
Nose up, ears forward, standing on all four paws. – The bear is using its highly sensitive nose to identify something it doesn’t recognize.
Standing on hind legs. – Bears stand on their hind legs to get a better look and smell of something they’ve detected.
Head down, ears laid back, body low to the ground. – Ears laid back, as with horses and dogs, signals that the bear is uneasy or nervous. You should back away slowly and always give bears their space.
Ears lowered, but not back all the way, no eye contact, cowering with head lowered, trying to look smaller. – This is submissive behavior; it’s typical of the way a young bear might respond to the presence of an older, dominant bear.
Pawing or slapping the ground or an object. – With black bears, this is almost always blustery behavior meant to intimidate and avoid a physical encounter.
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RE: Brown Bears (Info, Pics and Videos) - Tshokwane - 07-13-2017
Credits to Bruce Faanes.
Coming thru with fresh salmon at McNeil River Wildlife Sanctuary, Alaska.
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RE: Brown Bears (Info, Pics and Videos) - Tshokwane - 07-19-2017
Credits to Old Wolf Photography.
I know it seems odd to be posting a photograph in the snow but I took this photo only a bit over a month ago in Lamar Valley in Yellowstone National Park. It's so unusual to see grizzly bears walking in the snow so I thought I would share this photo with all of you. Let's all hope that now that grizzly bears have been delisted from the endangered species protection that we might see them continue to prosper in spite of that ruling.
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RE: Brown Bears (Info, Pics and Videos) - Sully - 07-20-2017
The Government Is Now the Yellowstone Grizzly’s Biggest Threat
By THOMAS McNAMEEJULY 14, 2017
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Credit Zoe Keller
In March 2016, the United States Fish and Wildlife Service proposed removing the Yellowstone grizzly bear population from the list of threatened species. The uproar was ferocious. Conservationists, scientists, 125 Indian tribes and some 650,000 citizens expressed concern about the move.
Now the government has gone and done it anyway.
Why? Because, foremost, the service’s biologists and administrators believe that the population has recovered to self-sustainability. And it has in fact grown a lot since 1984, the year I published “The Grizzly Bear,” when mother bears numbered in the low 30s — the brink of extirpation. The Department of the Interior now claims that “an estimated 700” grizzlies inhabit the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem — a vast wildlands centered on the world’s first national park but also including Grand Teton National Park, portions of six national forests, three national wildlife refuges and other federal, state, private and Indian lands.
A true recovery could be the greatest triumph yet for the Endangered Species Act of 1973, which is itself politically endangered. The states surrounding Yellowstone National Park — Idaho, Montana and Wyoming — have been pressing for the delisting for years, so that they can assume management of the bears outside the boundaries of the Yellowstone and Grand Teton parks. All three states plan to issue hunting licenses, which would be few in number but a major victory in the culture wars of the mountain West.
This is not the first time the feds have tried to delist the Yellowstone grizzly. They did it in 2007 and were met with a barrage of legal fire from conservation groups, which won in court and again on appeal. The court restored the bear to full protection in 2009, with a stinging rebuke of the government’s scientific claims.
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So is it a true recovery this time? Nearly all conservation biologists outside government say that an absolute recovery will never be possible for the Yellowstone grizzly population.
The Yellowstone grizzly’s food system is collapsing. One of the bears’ most important sources of nutrition has been the seeds of the whitebark pine, but the tree is under a double attack.
The native mountain pine beetle has historically been kept in check by periodic deep freezes, but there haven’t been any of those for years now, and this beetle has been killing pine species throughout the Rocky Mountains. The other attacker is the nonnative white pine blister rust, a deadly fungus that attacks the stems of the trees. More than 80 percent of the whitebarks are now dead or dying in the Greater Yellowstone region.
Until recent years, early each summer there were vast runs of spawning cutthroat trout up the tributaries of Yellowstone Lake — a high-fat feast for grizzlies. Since the illegal introduction in the 1980s of nonnative lake trout, however, which feed on juvenile cutthroats, the spawning runs are down by 90 percent.
A little-known but significant food source is an annual aggregation of army cutworm moths at high altitude in the Absaroka Mountains. One bear can eat up to 40,000 moths — 20,000 calories’ worth — in one day. The moths depend on moist microhabitats that are drying as summers continue to warm.
A less well understood but equally grave danger is that Yellowstone grizzlies live on what is effectively an island, its surrounding “sea” being devoid of grizzlies in all directions. Island populations are subject to inbreeding and hence lowered reproduction rates, and grizzlies are among the least fecund of mammals to start with. When island populations fall into reproductive decline, there are no adjacent populations to resupply them.
Many of the thousands of public comments on delisting have focused on the renewal of hunting. Very few people can stomach the image of a grizzly bear shot down — somehow it’s not like an elk or a deer. Management by the states is supposed to be rigorously overseen by the federal authorities, and over-hunting would seem to be unlikely under the proposed guidelines. Yet pursued by even a small number of hunters, Greater Yellowstone’s grizzlies would become much less visible for the millions of visitors who want only to see one.
Because they’re so hard to find in any case, grizzly bears are formidably hard to count, and a number of eminent scientists reject the government’s population claims. David Mattson, a recently retired visiting senior research scientist at the Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies, maintains that the population has “grown very little if at all during the last decade. Most of the claimed increase is an artifact of changes in method” of counting, “a fact often obfuscated by the agencies promoting delisting. And the population has been declining for at least three years.”
The only way Yellowstone’s grizzly bears can be expected to thrive in the long run is for their ecosystem to be connected by a corridor of occupied habitat to other grizzly populations — the one centered in Glacier National Park to the north and others up the Rocky Mountain chain to Alaska. That’s still possible, if grizzly hunting remains forbidden and the connecting lands are safeguarded in perpetuity against incursion and development, which they are not today.
Classification of the Yellowstone grizzly as a threatened species is set to expire at the end of July unless the courts step in again. Taking away federal protection now — with the bears’ food sources plunging and their ecosystem isolated — is an act of either deceit or folly.
Thomas McNamee is the author of “The Inner Life of Cats: The Science and Secrets of Our Mysterious Feline Companions.”
RE: Brown Bears (Info, Pics and Videos) - Rishi - 08-13-2017
A pack of grey wolves harassing a grizzly bear...
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RE: Brown Bears (Info, Pics and Videos) - Ngala - 08-25-2017
Photo and information credits: Jayanth Sharma
"A brown bear fishing in #Kamchatka"
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RE: Brown Bears (Info, Pics and Videos) - epaiva - 09-07-2017
Credit to Kodiak Brown Bear Center
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RE: Brown Bears (Info, Pics and Videos) - Tshokwane - 10-02-2017
Credits to Thomas Szajner.
Yellowstone.
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RE: Brown Bears (Info, Pics and Videos) - Pckts - 10-17-2017
Body cam captures bear chasing a biker
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Scary Helmet-Cam Video Of A Bear Charging A Mountain Biker Is Going Viral
Mountain biking through scenic woods seems like a really fun activity. Well, Dorothy, I’m about to ruin it for you. Here’s a little reminder that the woods are full of lions and tigers and bears. OK, I’m not sure about the lions and tigers part. But there are definitely bears in the woods.
A video of two Slovakian mountain bikers encountering a bear and capturing the incident on a helmet-cam has gone viral—with the YouTube video they posted garnering over 10 million views as of the time of publication.
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Flickr | f.c.franklin(A word of warning, if you get motion sickness you might want to take something for that before you watch any type of head-cam footage. Trust me.)
YouTube user Dusan Vinzik and his buddy appear to be enjoying a nice ride down a wooded trail when all of a sudden, a bear tries to turn Vinzik’s buddy into his “Revenant” co-star:
Vinzik yells—in dramatic slow-motion—what we are assuming is the Slovakian word for “BEAR!” in time to warn his friend to pump his brakes and make a hasty retreat.
I give credit to Vinzik, because I think I would have simply turned around and let the bear chase after my friend.
Bears Have Chased Cyclists Before
Bears chasing cyclists is nothing new, as it turns out. In 2014, Canadian cyclist Brad Paras was biking in Jasper National Park in Alberta, Canada, when a mama bear appeared to his right.
In the video of the incident, Paras does what most of us would have done. First, he takes a 90-degree turn. Then he says a naughty word (warning!), tumbles down a hill and crashes into a log.
You can get a look at the bear at around the :34 second mark.
Bears Have Chased Hikers, Too
OK, maybe chased isn’t the right word to describe this hiker’s encounter with a mama bear and her cub. Followed with extreme curiosity may be a more apt description.
Geoffrey Glassner, 74, was hiking in Alaska’s Katmai National Park when he ran into a family of Grizzly bears. Glassner remained calm and even had the presence of mind to whip out his camera and record them as he walked backwards away from the bears.
“The mom and the cubs keep following me, and they’re walking at least as fast as I am,” Glassner notes in the video. Yikes!
He can be heard breathing heavily as he continues to document the frightening ordeal and even pleads with the animals at one point, saying, “Oh come on, guys, give me a break.” Eventually, the bears found a river and left a relieved Glassner alone.
Some Bear Chases Are Fake, However
Of course, there are also fake videos of bear chases floating around on the internet, like the one Field and Stream debunked in 2014. I can’t tell you how relieved I am that this video is fake. While the bear in the first two videos gives short chase, the one in the fake video just keeps running after the cyclist like the T-Rex in “Jurassic Park.”
RE: Brown Bears (Info, Pics and Videos) - Tshokwane - 10-19-2017
Credits to Bob's Creek Photography.
Grizzly on an elk kill (killed by the Lamars(wolf pack) most likely)
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RE: Brown Bears (Info, Pics and Videos) - Tshokwane - 10-21-2017
Credits to Eugene Kiedrowski.
Indian Pond Grizzly
He is indeed a big bear and was walking towards me when a car pulled up and the people in it went out into the field to get closer, he turned and went around the other side of the pond.
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