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Post by OldGreenGrolar on Sept 18, 2021 6:42:17 GMT -5
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Post by Deleted on Sept 18, 2021 6:50:23 GMT -5
OldGreenGrolarMaybe a bit dramatized narration, but great footage and nice slow motions Even though no bears involved, good video otherwise.
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Post by OldGreenGrolar on Sept 18, 2021 6:59:35 GMT -5
OldGreenGrolar Maybe a bit dramatized narration, but great footage and nice slow motions Even though no bears involved, good video otherwise. Thanks for watching. I thought it will be interesting to see how wolverines confront each other at least. None of them are big enough to take on a bear regardless. Edit: Boxingman did mention once upon a time that the wolverine gets hungry a lot quicker than other animals and hence their aggression. I wonder how true that is and would like to see a source for that.
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Post by brobear on Sept 18, 2021 7:13:17 GMT -5
OldGreenGrolar Maybe a bit dramatized narration, but great footage and nice slow motions Even though no bears involved, good video otherwise. Thanks for watching. I thought it will be interesting to see how wolverines confront each other at least. None of them are big enough to take on a bear regardless. Edit: Boxingman did mention once upon a time that the wolverine gets hungry a lot quicker than other animals and hence their aggression. I wonder how true that is and would like to see a source for that. Thus their common name; glutton.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 18, 2021 7:28:34 GMT -5
OldGreenGrolar Maybe a bit dramatized narration, but great footage and nice slow motions Even though no bears involved, good video otherwise. Thanks for watching. I thought it will be interesting to see how wolverines confront each other at least. None of them are big enough to take on a bear regardless. Edit: Boxingman did mention once upon a time that the wolverine gets hungry a lot quicker than other animals and hence their aggression. I wonder how true that is and would like to see a source for that. As weasels, wolverines kill to the stock, so to speak. I think that it has a lot to do with their reputation as animals, which have huge appetite. I don´t think, that it has so much to do with it, that they would really eat more than some other animal. That killing to the stock is one reason why reindeer owners hate them. In deep snow a single wolverine can kill several reindeer in a row and leave them there. Edit and add: Other thing is, that when wolverines eat, they do it fast. Also one reason why they have reputation of great appetite. Then again, they have to be aware, because they often eat leftovers of wolves and even though wolverines are careful to approach carcass only after wolves have left, they have to be alert because some wolf or wolves can come back at any moment. And naturally there can be an animal even better sense of smell, a bear, nearby. So wolverine without any doubt wants to eat fast, because it can be chased off at any moment.
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Post by brobear on Dec 31, 2021 9:04:19 GMT -5
Little Critters www.livescience.com/27461-wolverines.html ...wolverines are the biggest of the weasel family, according to the Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS), they are still very small. They are normally 26 to 34 inches (66 to 86 centimeters) from head to rump. Their tail adds another 7 to 10 inches (18 to 25 centimeters) to their length. They weigh 24 to 40 lbs. (11 to 18 kilograms). Raccoons are about as big as small dogs. They grow to about 23 to 37 inches (60 to 95 centimeters) and weigh 4 to 23 lbs. (1.8 to 10.4 kilograms), according to National Geographic. *Seriously, I have never in my life seen a raccoon 3-feet long... and I have seen a great many raccoons. As long as a woverine!!?!! Every raccoon that I have ever seen was comparable in size to a fat house cat.
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Post by skibidibopmmdada on Aug 26, 2022 19:36:24 GMT -5
The Bear Almanac - Second Edition: Bighorn and Dall sheep are too agile on terrain that is difficult for bears to negotiate. The author observed an American black bear stalk several bighorns that easily moved back and forth from one outcropping of rock to another. A mountain goat was observed feeding near a grizzly, with neither indicating any aggression or fear; however, naturalist William Hornaday observed a goat use its horns to mortally wound a grizzly bear. You will have accounts that say that a bear can destroy the universe with one breath but then accounts that say goats can kill 20000 ton bears, it is very confusing.
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Post by OldGreenGrolar on Aug 26, 2022 23:58:23 GMT -5
/\ The only bears that can destroy the universe with one breath will be my fictional male blue ice bear in planet of the Bears😂. On the other hand Winnie the Pooh,Paddington, the gummy bears, Care Bears, name any cartoonish bear you want will get obliterated by goats.
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Post by brobear on Aug 27, 2022 2:18:07 GMT -5
Rocky Mountain goats www.visitbigsky.com/get-inspired/big-sky-stories/interesting-facts-about-mountain-goats-1 www.earthtouchnews.com/natural-world/predator-vs-prey/when-grizzly-bears-and-mountain-goats-go-to-battle/ The mountain goat's scientific name is Oreamnos americanus. Mountain goats are not goats. They are more related to antelope and are part of the bovidae family. It’s stating the obvious to point out that the grizzly bear is a formidable beast. Even your average wolf pack, more often than not, thinks twice before engaging one of these big, unruly “silvertips.” And, while in most parts of the continent the bulk of the grizzly’s fare is vegetative, it can be an effective predator on an occasional basis, capable even of bringing down moose and the odd bison. But attacking large mammals is risky – for grizzlies as for any other carnivore. A few months ago a griz in the Canadian Rockies suffered the consequences of predatory ambition (or desperation) in the form of a defensive counterattack by a mountain goat. Earlier this year, a hiker in British Columbia’s Yoho National Park came upon a grizzly carcass – a female, or sow, weighing only some 70 kilograms (154 pounds). A subsequent necropsy revealed stab wounds at the bear’s armpits and throat which Parks Canada attributed to the dagger-like horns of a mountain goat, a band of which was seen in the general vicinity of the dead griz. The location of those wounds, and the determination that they were received before the bear’s death, suggested a botched predation attempt. “When grizzly bears attack,” Parks Canada wildlife ecologist David Laskin told Rocky Mountain Outlook Today, “they tend to focus on the head, back of the head, and the shoulders of prey, and it’s usually from above, so in turn the defensive response of the mountain goat would be to protect itself using its sharp horns.” Indeed, Laskin further noted that this wasn’t the first case of this variety that he’d heard of. “Though rare, other cases of mountain goats defensively killing bears have been reported in the past,” he told the paper. “This is not completely surprising since mountain goats are strong animals that are well equipped to defend themselves.” Mountain goats are stocky, snow-white, black-horned ungulates – not true goats, by the way – native to the high country of northwestern North America. Across a goodly portion of that range, they overlap with mountain sheep: Dall, Stone, and bighorn sheep, only distantly related caprine cousins. Whereas mountain-sheep rams square off with dramatic head-on clashes – loud, shuddering, but generally more ritualised than injurious combat – goat billies confront one another broadside, and if intimidation doesn’t work they jab fiercely at their rival’s hindquarters. Though said rear ends are protected by thickened hide, the curved, keen-pointed design of the goat’s horns makes these rut rumbles dicier affairs than the boss-to-boss collision of mountain sheep. Mountain-goat nannies are notably aggressive toward other goats, quick to deploy a horn slash or two to clarify the social hierarchy. Bighorn sheep on Caw Ridge – a long-standing bighorn and mountain-goat research site along the front of Alberta’s Rocky Mountains – tend to yield to testy goats, surely out of respect for those skull-spikes of theirs. On occasion, mountain goats may even turn those horns on human beings. A few years back, a man in Utah escaped a tense encounter with a billy unscathed; a 2010 hiker in Washington State’s Olympic National Park was less fortunate. But wielding dagger horns, useful as they can be for sorting out intra-group dynamics, aren’t a mountain goat’s primary means of eluding predators. It’s their exceptional skills navigating steep cliffs and razor-thin ledges, which gives them a natural advantage over grizzlies and other carnivores in rugged mountainscapes. Kevin White, a biologist with the Alaska Department of Fish & Game who’s closely studied the species in the burly coastal mountains of that state’s southeast, noted via email that survival rates among mountain-goat kids in “intact, predator-rich ecosystems” tend to be notably higher than those of deer and moose neonates – evidence of the effectiveness of the goat’s anti-predator strategies. Goats, however, must often forage away from the sheer “escape terrain” that gives them a leg-up, and in at least some goat-roamed landscapes those kinds of gravity-defying refuges are a limited resource. Grazing gentler alpine slopes or browsing subalpine parkland, mountain goats are more vulnerable to carnivores: not only grizzlies, but also wolves (for which goats may be a significant food source in, for example, parts of southeastern Alaska) and cougars, and potentially also black bears and wolverines. In many cases, goats caught out in such precarious settings will flee to the nearest escape terrain, scrambling up outcrops and rock faces as quickly as they can. But if such terrain is not available, or goats are overtaken before reaching it, they may resort to active defense. “In most instances,” White told me, “mountain goats respond to threats by running to cliffs/refugia and then climbing into difficult-to-access spots. Yet, when no other options exist, they clearly exhibit defensive behavior, including incredibly quick and dangerous horn-stabbing movements.” He highlighted the following footage of a goat attacked by a cougar (not taken in Alaska) as illustrative of how effective those horn-thrusts can be: *Note: see more, including videos on site provided.
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Post by skibidibopmmdada on Aug 27, 2022 8:20:41 GMT -5
Brobear, rocky mountain goats have developed a very special defense when it comes to predators. It is called laser eyes which is something that tigers have also developed and use to hunt sharks.
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Post by brobear on Aug 27, 2022 9:59:49 GMT -5
Prey beats predator as mountain goat fatally gores grizzly bear in B.C. park - Sep. 22, 2021 www.saanichnews.com/news/prey-beats-predator-as-mountain-goat-fatally-gores-grizzly-bear-in-b-c-park/ *Note: If you type-in "Mountain Goat Kills Grizzly" on the internet, you will find a half-dozen pages of the same story. It's not often we find a story of another animal killing a grizzly; Even one weighing less than 200-pounds. Facts - Threats and Survival www.mtgoats.ca/Facts/threats.asp The greatest natural threats to mountain goats are starvation in late winter, avalanches, falls from steep cliffs and predation. The greatest threats from humans are poorly regulated hunting and displacement from natural habitat by industrial resource extraction and motorized recreation. Poor hunting practices prior to the 1970s resulted in the extirpation (local extinction) of mountain goats in many areas of the United States, British Columbia and Alberta. Natural predators include grizzly, black bear, wolves, wolverine and cougar. Golden eagles can knock small new-born kids off rocky ledges.
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Post by skibidibopmmdada on Aug 27, 2022 11:37:46 GMT -5
Prey beats predator as mountain goat fatally gores grizzly bear in B.C. park - Sep. 22, 2021 www.saanichnews.com/news/prey-beats-predator-as-mountain-goat-fatally-gores-grizzly-bear-in-b-c-park/ *Note: If you type-in "Mountain Goat Kills Grizzly" on the internet, you will find a half-dozen pages of the same story. It's not often we find a story of another animal killing a grizzly; Even one weighing less than 200-pounds. Facts - Threats and Survival www.mtgoats.ca/Facts/threats.asp The greatest natural threats to mountain goats are starvation in late winter, avalanches, falls from steep cliffs and predation. The greatest threats from humans are poorly regulated hunting and displacement from natural habitat by industrial resource extraction and motorized recreation. Poor hunting practices prior to the 1970s resulted in the extirpation (local extinction) of mountain goats in many areas of the United States, British Columbia and Alberta. Natural predators include grizzly, black bear, wolves, wolverine and cougar. Golden eagles can knock small new-born kids off rocky ledges. Yea it was a 154 pound young inexperienced female bear.
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Post by arctozilla on Aug 27, 2022 12:38:46 GMT -5
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Post by skibidibopmmdada on Aug 27, 2022 14:27:17 GMT -5
Didn't the bear die a little bit after too? If it stayed it could have killed the goat resulting in a victory for both after that.
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Post by brobear on Aug 28, 2022 2:16:19 GMT -5
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Post by brobear on Oct 3, 2022 4:41:22 GMT -5
Rare sighting of elusive critters in Denali National Park puzzles even park staff Alaska’s Denali National Park is full of wildlife. Tourists and park staff are used to seeing massive animals in the national park. Bears, wolves, caribou, moose and countless birds oam the national park. Last week, however, something that’s rarely seen appeared in the area. The sighting was so rare, even park staff were puzzled. Two wolverines were recently spotted hanging out by a culvert in Denali National Park, rangers said. “A rare appearance by two wolverines quickly became the talk of the park this week,” park officials said Saturday, Aug. 20, on Facebook. “Since these animals are so rarely seen, some park staff had to brush up on their wolverine knowledge!” Wolverines can be between 38 and 47 inches long, and weigh between 13 and 31 pounds, according to the National Park Service. They’re “active year-round” and breed from April to October, according to the National Park Service. During the winter months, they “den in deep snow.” Wolverines can be powerful and aggressive, the National Park Service reported. They have strong teeth and will eat anything they find. They’re considered a threatened or endangered species in the continental U.S. In Alaska, however, their population is stable. Read more at: www.sacbee.com/news/nation-world/national/article264758144.html#storylink=cpy
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Post by brobear on Oct 9, 2022 8:20:06 GMT -5
Bobcat Takes Out Rattlesnake In Highly Technical Fight www.whiskeyriff.com/2022/10/08/bobcat-takes-out-rattlesnake-in-highly-technical-fight/?fbclid=IwAR0NKnKuNKoYQ4s-V7Jjkjzu2mZiVQz5aP51en9IJxBsrVY4ToZo3w2F4js This felt like a high level boxing match. Both sides were quick. One side had the size advantage but it was matched by the other’s one-strike power. A match up for the ages, but one must prevail, and this time size was victorious. A bobcat and a rattlesnake squared up in Angeles National Forest in Arcadia, California in just the right spot to be captured on a trail cam, and it’s one of the best displays of the insane reaction time of cats, especially wild ones. Rattlesnakes strike at about 10 feet per second, which doesn’t seem very fast, but when you realize they can hit your hand from a foot away in a tenth of a second, you start to realize it’s scary fast… But even more impressively, the bobcat is able to dodge every single attack thrown out by the snake and secure a win with a combination of strikes and one well placed bite. Safe to say it wasn’t the first time he’d taken out a rattlesnake, and judging by the success, it won’t be the last.
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Post by brobear on Oct 9, 2022 16:20:47 GMT -5
Honey Badger - Mellivora capensis The honey badger (Mellivora capensis), also known as the ratel, is a species of mustelid native to Africa, the Middle East and the Indian Subcontinent. Despite its name, the honey badger does not closely resemble other badger species, instead bearing more anatomical similarities to weasels. It is classed as Least Concern by the IUCN due to its extensive range and general environmental adaptations. It is a primarily carnivorous species, and has few natural predators due to its thick skin and ferocious defensive abilities. The honey badger has a fairly long body, but is distinctly thick set and broad across the back. Its skin is remarkably loose, and allows it to turn and twist freely within it. The skin around the neck is 6 millimetres (0.24 in) thick, an adaptation to fighting conspecifics. The head is small and flat, with a short muzzle. The eyes are small, and the ears are little more than ridges on the skin, another possible adaptation to avoiding damage while fighting. The honey badger has short and sturdy legs, with five toes on each foot. The feet are armed with very strong claws, which are short on the hind legs and remarkably long on the forelimbs. It is a partially plantigrade animal whose soles are thickly padded and naked up to the wrists. The tail is short and is covered in long hairs, save for below the base. Adults measure 23 to 28 centimetres (9.1 to 11 in) in shoulder height and 68–75 cm in body length, with females being smaller than males. Males on average weigh 12 kg (up to 16 kilograms) (26 to 35 lb) while females weigh 9.1 kg.
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Post by brobear on Oct 9, 2022 16:40:01 GMT -5
Wolverine - Gulo gulo The Wolverine is a stocky and muscular animal, considered carnivorous but known on occasion to eat plant material. It has glossy brown hair with stripes of yellow along the sides. The fur is long and dense and does not retain much water, making it very resistant to frost in the wolverine's cold habitat (this has led to some popularity amongst hunters and trappers for its use as a lining in jackets and parkas). The adult wolverine is about the size of a medium dog, with a length usually ranging from 65–107 cm (26–42 in), a tail of 17–26 cm (6.7–10.2 in), and a weight of 5.5–25 kg (12–55 lb), though exceptionally large males can weigh up to 32 kg (71 lb). However the Wolverine Foundation claim the largest wild wolverine they have verified is 45 pounds.
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Post by brobear on Oct 9, 2022 16:44:08 GMT -5
Tasmanian Devil - Sarcophilus harrisii The Tasmanian devil (Sarcophilus harrisii) is a carnivorous marsupial of the family Dasyuridae, now found in the wild only on the Australian island state of Tasmania. The size of a small dog, it became the largest carnivorous marsupial in the world following the extinction of the thylacine in 1936. It is characterised by its stocky and muscular build, black fur, pungent odour, extremely loud and disturbing screech, keen sense of smell, and ferocity when feeding. The Tasmanian devil's large head and neck allow it to generate the strongest bite per unit body mass of any living mammal, and it hunts prey and scavenges carrion as well as eating household products if humans are living nearby. Although it is usually solitary, it sometimes eats with other devils and defecates in a communal location. Unlike most other dasyurids, the devil thermoregulates effectively and is active during the middle of the day without overheating. Despite its rotund appearance, the devil is capable of surprising speed and endurance, and can climb trees and swim across rivers. Males are usually larger than females, having an average head and body length of 652 mm (25.7 in), a 258 mm (10.2 in) tail and an average weight of 8 kg (18 lb). Females have an average head and body length of 570 mm (22 in), a 244 mm (9.6 in) tail and an average weight of 6 kg (13 lb), although devils in western Tasmania tend to be smaller.
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