There is a world somewhere between reality and fiction. Although ignored by many, it is very real and so are those living in it. This forum is about the natural world. Here, wild animals will be heard and respected. The forum offers a glimpse into an unknown world as well as a room with a view on the present and the future. Anyone able to speak on behalf of those living in the emerald forest and the deep blue sea is invited to join.
01-23-2017, 03:31 PM( This post was last modified: 01-23-2017, 08:43 PM by brotherbear )
Tracking Gobi Grizzlies.
With Odko translating, Puji said, "I didn't get a good look into the trap because I didn't want to bother the bear, but I think that it is a small one." He was wrong. It was a male, maybe eight years old, taller and a good foot longer than the female. By the time we arrived, he had torn away part of the metal ventilation grate welded onto one side of the box. He carried 231 pounds on a rangy frame, and that was his low, post-hibernation weight. His general condition, like the female's appeared good. The double-layered coat he wore was luxuriantly thick. We found a number of ticks burrowed into it and a recent scar running down one side of his head. Nobody, it seems, gets by completely unscathed in the Gobi. And yet this pitiless environment had produced two large, beautiful mammals contoured with belts of powerful muscles and wrapped in plush fur. Two lives that, if granted the usual span for their kind, would continue for fifteen to twenty years. Or longer.
Bears of the Himalayan Mountains
