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Post by brobear on Dec 3, 2022 3:44:16 GMT -5
The Russian 'Shatun' Bear shaggygod.proboards.com/thread/483/russian-shatun-bear The bear is omnivorous, but he requires a lot of food. In order to save up enough fat for the winter (about 50 kilograms), the bear eats up to 700 pounds of berries, or up to half a tonne of pine nuts, along with other feeds. In lean years for berries in the northern areas of the bears will diet on crops of oats, and in the south - corn. In poor forage years, some bears attacking livestock, ravage beehives. If the bears' winter hibernation is disturbed it will awaken from its lair; all of its body functions reorganizes and its weight rapidly drops so it seeks out food. The bear in this case turns into a wanderer, or as they say, bear-rod or connecting-rod (shatun ). Connecting rod bear is - a dangerous beast. The bear is irritated and desperate to obtain food. In search of food, the bear will attack almost anything. The bear will cannibalize other denned bears and it is attracted to the smell of human food often going to the camp of lumberjacks, or into local villages. The weakened 'shatun' bear also becomes predatory attacking elk or any other animal. N.N. Rukovsky paraphrased text. also..... From International Bear News: The “shatun” bear (a non-hibernating vagrant bear) finds a denned bear, kills and eats it. We have recorded three cases of a “shatun” bear cannibalizing a bear sleeping in a den. In years of crop failure of primary fattening foods the “shatun” bears appear in large areas. Among “shatun” bears observed in Yakutia, females with yearlings are absent; apparently the result of the death of their cubs. By the end of November the “shatuns” disappear; they die of exhaustion or freeze. Yakutia literature describes cases of four brown bears dying from exhaustion and frostbite. No periodicity has been determined for the appearance of the “shatuns.” For instance, in 2001, the “shatuns” were observed only in the Kolyma river basin. |
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Post by brobear on Dec 3, 2022 3:50:48 GMT -5
Grrraaahhh: On Saturday, local hunters managed to overtake the bear. In the morning the bear near the village residents have seen passing Larbi, they reported this to the head of the village Horogochi. Zoe Chusovikina, in turn, appealed to local hunters. According to them, bear-rod was very large - about 150 kilograms of weight. "At first thought, the little bear, - says one of the hunters who shot and killed the rod, Mikhail Babich. - But the bear left the trail was more prints of my shoe size 42. He was exhausted and very thin, could at any moment to attack people, we were forced to kill him. "
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Warsaw: "...If the bears' winter hibernation is disturbed it will awaken from its lair; all of its body functions reorganizes and its weight rapidly drops so it seeks out food. The bear in this case turns into a wanderer, or as they say, bear-rod or connecting-rod (shatun )..."
"...In conclusion, the brown bear offers novel information on the innate immune system during hibernation. The present study supports the hypothesis that the reduced number of white blood cells during hibernation is a temperature-dependent phenomenon conserved across evolution. Future studies are needed to understand the mechanisms regulating the innate immune system during hibernation. We hypothesize that the reduced number of neutrophils during hibernation is associated with increased survival. One explanation could be that the suppression in immune function, as a function of body temperature, is proportional to the decrease in virulence of any pathogens present in the hibernator..."
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Post by brobear on Dec 3, 2022 3:53:37 GMT -5
Russia Unlocked Media/news company www.facebook.com/265685223623453/posts/shatun-bearshatun-is-russian-word-for-the-bear-who-didnt-fall-into-his-usual-win/319481468243828/ Shatun bear. Shatun is Russian word for the bear, who didn’t fall into his usual winter sleep, or was awakened before spring. I didn’t find the English analog for this word, not sure why, may be western bears usually are not disturbed before the right time, or they behave themselves differently, I don’t know. I am not sure about the bears living in other countries, so this pic will refer to Russian Grey Bear (or Siberian bear) only. The bear is the most dangerous animal in the woods, or taiga, as they call it in Siberia. Adult bear is 450-500 kg, sometimes up to 750 kg. There is no other animal in the nature capable of hunting the bear. During the summer bear spends all his time looking for food (interrupted for reproduction only). Bear eats berries, nuts, likes honey very much. Sometimes bears go fishing. Usually wild bear doesn’t engage with human. He needs to accumulate enough fat. Then he falls asleep, or hibernates, in his den (berloga) for entire winter. If something goes wrong, like, crop crisis, scarce food in the summer, or people invade the bear’s territory, destroy the food base and the bear is not able to accumulate enough fat to sleep till spring, he would wake up early in a very bad mood. He would start to wonder around the frozen winter forest looking for any possible food. Such bear called shatun in Russia. Bear can run faster than human, can climb trees, so if you meet him and he is in bad mood, there is absolutely no chance for escape, unless you have a big gun, and even the gun is not always helpful. Despite the common prejudice that the bear is not smart animal, there is evidence that this is only a prejudice. Bear, especially shatun, known to be very creative in his hunt. He can quietly track people and suddenly attack from behind. Sometimes he sets up ambush and you don’t know that he is waiting for you in the bush until the very last moment. Shatun is extremely dangerous. |
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Post by brobear on Dec 3, 2022 3:54:25 GMT -5
: This shatun bear did not survive the winter.  |
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Post by brobear on Dec 3, 2022 4:41:03 GMT -5
Bear Hibernation November 21, 2013 Posted by: Michael Fitz www.nps.gov/katm/blogs/bear-hibernation.htm One adaptation that has evolved in some mammals is hibernation. Hibernation is a state of dormancy that allows animals to avoid periods of famine. It takes many forms in mammals, but is particularly remarkable in bears. In the Katmai region, most bears go to their den and begin hibernation in October and November. Hibernation in bears is most likely triggered by a shortage of high calorie food as well as hormonal changes. After a summer and fall spent gorging on food, a bear’s physiology and metabolism shifts in rather incredible ways to help them survive several months without food or water. When hibernating, a bear’s body temperature remains above 88˚F (31°C), not much lower than their normal body temperature of 100˚F (37.7°C). This is unlike other hibernating mammals such as ground squirrels whose body temperature drops close to freezing. A bear’s heart and respiratory rates, however, drop dramatically. They average only 1 breath per minute with a heart rate of 8-10 beats per minute in hibernation. They still need to burn many calories per day while hibernating—sometimes more than 4000 calories per day. When they emerge from their dens in the spring, bears have lost up to 33% of their body weight. Lactating females can lose even more weight. Surviving a winter without food or water requires fuel, and a bear fuels its body on the fat reserves it acquired during the previous summer and fall. Bears do not eat, drink, urinate, or defecate while in the den. Fat is metabolized to produce water and food, but instead of defecating or urinating to eliminate waste, bears recycle it. Their kidneys shut down almost completely and urea, a major component of urine, is recycled into proteins that maintain a bear’s muscle mass and organ tissues. Without the ability to recycle urea, ammonia would build up to toxic levels and poison the animal. Since they are living off of their stored body fat, bears also have very high levels of cholesterol in their blood. Remarkably, healthy bears emerge from hibernation in the spring without losing muscle mass and bone density, or suffering from hardening of the arteries. Can the abilities of a hibernating bear help people in the future? Perhaps. If we can unlock the physiological secrets of a hibernating bear, then we may be able to find new ways to treat kidney, heart, and bone diseases. We also might be able to more safely send humans on long distance space expeditions if we can find a way to hibernate like a bear. In the depths of winter, when Katmai’s landscape is covered in snow and ice and the wind is howling fiercely, bears are nestled snug in their dens and sleep soundly. They feel no thirst or hunger at this time. Bears are survivors with a very special adaptation—hibernation—that allows them to survive harsh wintertime conditions and famine remarkably well. |
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Post by brobear on Dec 3, 2022 4:56:28 GMT -5
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Post by brobear on Dec 3, 2022 5:59:13 GMT -5
Hunters killed a connecting rod bear near the Yakut village www-interfax--russia-ru.translate.goog/far-east/news/ohotniki-ubili-medvedya-shatuna-vblizi-yakutskogo-sela?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=es-419&_x_tr_pto=wapp NEWS November 15, 2016 11:27 am Yakutsk. 15th of Nov. INTERFAX - FAR EAST - A connecting rod bear, which posed a threat to local residents, was killed in the Aldan region of Yakutia, the press service of the regional Ministry of Nature Protection reported on Tuesday. For the first time the bear was seen in the area of the upper reaches of the Sylgylyyr river. Currently, more than 40 hunters and two reindeer herding nomadic communities are engaged in fishing in this area and nearby territories. The beast could go to the federal highway "Lena" and the nearest settlement - the village of Verkhnyaya Amga. It was 20 km from this village that the beast was discovered and killed. "As a result of the study of the carcass of the animal, it turned out that the bear lay in the den as a wounded animal, as a result of an abscess of a purulent wound, he was forced to leave the den. Experts' assumptions about the danger of this animal were confirmed," the press service emphasizes. |
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Post by brobear on Jan 18, 2023 7:56:40 GMT -5
I have some question concerning shatun bears.
Fact: It seems that every shatun bear I read about is a full-grown male brown bear in the Russian Far East.
1- My guess is that since younger bears and she-bears need less food to reach their weight goal to survive six months of hibernation, then most, if not all, shatun bears are full-grown males.
2- It seems that every winter in the RFE, there are dangerous shatun bears roaming in the taiga. Why do we not have shatun bears up in Europe, Alaska, and Canada?
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Post by brobear on Jan 19, 2023 5:39:12 GMT -5
Credits to King Kodiak: Large bear spotted in Yukon, awake in the middle of winter.  |
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Post by brobear on Jan 19, 2023 5:43:17 GMT -5
Large bear spotted in Yukon, awake in the middle of winter. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/north/to-hibernate-or-not-to-is-the-question-for-a-yukon-bear-1.6702290 What started off as a normal drive to work ended up being a trip Yvonne Moon will never forget. Moon lives in the community of Faro, Yukon, but makes a six hour drive to Good Hope Lake, B.C., for work. She was approximately 50 kilometres from Watson Lake on Highway 37, just north of the B.C. border, when she saw it. "I was coming over a steep hill," Moon said. "I glanced over on the left hand side and I seen a grizzly bear." Moon said she knew it was a grizzly bear by its size. She said she drove past the bear a few times to make sure her eyes weren't playing tricks on her. "I could see he was digging," Moon said. "I tried to see if there was a kill. He'd been digging there for quite a while because there was quite a bit of stuff that was dug up, but I didn't see a kill." Moon said she was scared but intrigued at the same time. "I started taking a bunch of pictures," she said. "I tried honking my horn a few times and it didn't even budge. He didn't look scared or nothing." Moon said in 63 years she has never once seen a grizzly bear awake in December. "I've been raised up in the bush and we've lived in the bush our entire lives," she said. "I've been out on the trapline with my dad and different stuff like that and I've never seen a grizzly this time of year." Moon said the bear looked to be "in good shape," which seemed to make it even more odd that the bear was out. "This time of year when you see grizzlies out there like this, it's usually a sign that they're starving," she said. "Or obviously they haven't had enough to eat to go and hibernate, so that's sort of what struck me." After a few minutes of taking photos, Moon continued on her way. When she got to work, she posted the photos she had taken of the bear online. That's when people started contacting her. "I had a conservation officer from Watson Lake contact me," she said. "I let him know what happened. "It's just odd to see a bear this time of year."  |
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Post by brobear on Jan 19, 2023 5:59:04 GMT -5
Quotes: What started off as a normal drive to work ended up being a trip Yvonne Moon will never forget. She said she drove past the bear a few times to make sure her eyes weren't playing tricks on her. Moon said in 63 years she has never once seen a grizzly bear awake in December. "I've been raised up in the bush and we've lived in the bush our entire lives," she said. "I've been out on the trapline with my dad and different stuff like that and I've never seen a grizzly this time of year." "It's just odd to see a bear this time of year."
Moon said the bear looked to be "in good shape," which seemed to make it even more odd that the bear was out. "This time of year when you see grizzlies out there like this, it's usually a sign that they're starving," she said. "Or obviously they haven't had enough to eat to go and hibernate, so that's sort of what struck me."
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There seems to be some contradiction here. But, one thing is crystal clear. A brown bear awake and out in his environment is extremely rare in the Canadian Yukon. Also, we do not hear of the ultra-dangerous shatun bears that are desperate and will attack anything living.
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Post by brobear on Jan 19, 2023 6:02:48 GMT -5
This is a documentary of a Yellowstone grizzly who simply decided not to hibernate. He spent the entire Winter following a wolf pack (14 wolves). This big male grizzly is not a desperate shatun bear. However, perhaps any bear who is found out roaming the land during the cold Winter months is a shatun bear. This would simply be a matter of ones' definition of the word "shatun". Nevertheless, I have only found information on dangerous shatun bears being those living within the RFE. |
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Post by OldGreenGrolar on Jan 21, 2023 3:32:09 GMT -5
Chamlid used to follow a tigress around. If not mistaken, someone called him a satellite bear or vulture bear.
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Post by brobear on Jan 21, 2023 4:12:48 GMT -5
Chamlid used to follow a tigress around. If not mistaken, someone called him a satellite bear or vulture bear. Yes, he was a healthy brown bear. When a bear decides to follow a tigress from kill to kill to displace her from the carcass, he is called a satellite bear. Vulture bear is a slang term which, imo, doesn't really fit as vultures do not ordinarily displace the predator. A bear might keep this up for several weeks at best, before relinquishing the tigress and seeking other foodstuffs. The point to the story of the Yellowstone grizzly is that, even though he skipped his usual Winter hibernation, he remained a healthy bear; not a shatun. |
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Post by OldGreenGrolar on Jan 21, 2023 4:34:53 GMT -5
/\ Some vultures do displace other predators like the shatun bear does. Lappet faced vultures displace martial eagles, Eurasian blackviltures displace golden eagles and Steller’s sea eagles, and white headed vultures displace tawny eagles, African fish eagles, and bateleur eagles. Very similar to a shatun bear. Therefore calling them vulture bears is legit.
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Post by brobear on Jan 21, 2023 4:56:39 GMT -5
/\ Some vultures do displace other predators like the shatun bear does. Lappet faced vultures displace martial eagles, Eurasian blackviltures displace golden eagles and Steller’s sea eagles, and white headed vultures displace tawny eagles, African fish eagles, and bateleur eagles. Very similar to a shatun bear. Therefore calling them vulture bears is legit. This is true; birds displacing birds once the predator is away. Does the vulture displace the big cat, the bear, the hyena clan, or the wolf pack? Unless you talking about one big bird chasing another off of a rabbit or a fish, etc. |
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Post by OldGreenGrolar on Jan 21, 2023 7:10:42 GMT -5
/\ Some vultures do displace other predators like the shatun bear does. Lappet faced vultures displace martial eagles, Eurasian blackviltures displace golden eagles and Steller’s sea eagles, and white headed vultures displace tawny eagles, African fish eagles, and bateleur eagles. Very similar to a shatun bear. Therefore calling them vulture bears is legit. This is true; birds displacing birds once the predator is away. Does the vulture displace the big cat, the bear, the hyena clan, or the wolf pack? Unless you talking about one big bird chasing another off of a rabbit or a fish, etc. /\ Lappet faced vultures can take on jackals one on one but not a hyena clan, wolf pack, big cat, nor bear. greennature.proboards.com/thread/36/bird-prey-interaction-canines |
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Post by King Kodiak on Sept 2, 2023 10:33:29 GMT -5
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