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Post by BruteStrength on Nov 26, 2018 17:51:49 GMT -5
A Russian bear is an animal that Russia has been associated with in the West for many centuries already. A lot of myths and stereotypes about the Russian bear have appeared for about 400 years. Let’s try to find out how these stereotypes appeared and what bears’ life in Russia is like. There are many bears in Russia. The most popular one is a brown bear which is known around the world as a “Russian bear”. A bear is the biggest and strongest animal on the territory of Russia and northern Europe, therefore Russians call it the forest (taiga) master. www.learnrussianineu.com/russian-bear-myths-realityWow nice bro!! The Russians call it the forest master!! Very nice find!! Yeahhhh man!!! Thats the best find you had. Oh man the tiger aint the master bro. THE USSURI BROWN BEAR. Thanks bro. Now we know that the bear is the true master of the taiga.
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Post by King Kodiak on Nov 26, 2018 19:13:19 GMT -5
Very nice research. That is a very important document there.
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Post by brobear on Nov 29, 2018 8:35:59 GMT -5
Nice find Brute.
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Post by brobear on Jan 26, 2019 17:10:02 GMT -5
Amur Brown Bear - Ursus arctos lasiotus - Ussuri Brown Bear - Black Grizzly.
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Post by brobear on Jan 31, 2019 15:55:08 GMT -5
www.whitewolfpack.com/2018/08/kai-ussuri-brown-bear-tastes-freedom.html?fbclid=IwAR1A4v499PPxdS-wspwHCbwVCtwFZ2SzRc9-AItH9OemeaYMwyvDMF_gxAU Kai the Ussuri brown bear tastes freedom for first time after 17 years. First, there is a long snout with two black nostrils as full stops. The mouth is open, as if in shock. Eyes that could be made of glass in a huge, wide head beneath cartoonish round ears. He waits. The metal shutter is lifted. The eyes peer, anxious. And then a huge paw, nails so long they remind me of Freddy Krueger, takes a very first step on to grass. Kai, a 17-year-old Ussuri brown bear who has lived in a 6ft by 9ft cage since being snatched as a cub from his mother – who was shot by hunters – places a paw on something that isn’t cold, hard concrete. Yikes! He snorts. He can’t believe it’s soft. He spies a toy, donated by the local fire service, one of many made from old hoses. Kai has never owned a toy. He picks it up and, thrilled, carries it inside his den. The keepers at Yorkshire Wildlife Park near Doncaster don’t want to cheer, as that would be alarming. Instead, water leaks from eyes as phones are held aloft to record this momentous moment.Kai is one of four bears who existed as ‘living’ exhibits in the Ainu Culture Museum on Hokkaido, the northernmost of Japan’s islands. The cubs were once sacrificed, but when that practice ended they were simply locked up. These brown bears are rare: there are only about 10,000 left in Japan. Eighteen months ago, Western tourists, shocked at the barren conditions, brought the four bears to the attention of Wild Welfare, a UK charity that helps captive wild animals. The two brothers, Kai and Riku, would eat, then vomit, as that gave them something to do; all four bears would pace, driven mad with boredom. ‘The museum wanted the bears rehomed,’ Georgina Groves of Wild Welfare tells me. ‘They didn’t have the facilities. Unfortunately, we couldn’t find anywhere in Japan that would take them.’ She got in touch with Yorkshire Wildlife Park (YWP), which has an incredible reputation for rehabilitating wild animals. They said yes, of course. Kai and his fellow inmates were flown 5,400 miles from Japan to the UK, where they arrived on August 3. DHL provided air-conditioned road transport – at a discount price – while the bears were flown in the hold by Japanese Airlines. The journey alone cost £150,000. A team of five vets – two from Japan – helped with the move, which began in 36C heat. Only Hanako, the 27-year-old female, the most inquisitive of the four, went willingly into a crate. Amu, 27, a gentle giant, and brothers Kai and Riku had to be tranquillised. The bears were flown first to Tokyo for the connecting flight to Heathrow. Alan Tevendale, one of the vets, says: ‘We offered them water when we landed and fans were placed around the cages. Conditions were not ideal. We were anxious.’ When the bears arrived in Yorkshire, tired and confused, they were given time to emerge from the crates, and venture into their huge, enriched dens: deep straw beds, water, and fruit, vegetables, yogurt and eggs. They were also offered strawberries and, you guessed it, honey. As greedy as Pooh, the new diet ‘never touched the sides’ says Debbie Porter, animal manager at YWP, one of a team of five devoted to their care. It’s all a far cry from their diet in Japan, where they lived on scraps. ‘We have many, many tins of pilchards,’ adds Debbie. Hanako and Amu are hidden away in two dens out of bounds to anyone other than their carers: they will take a few weeks to recover from their journey, not to mention their 27-year confinement in a cage where they were only able to take four steps. But today is the first time the two brothers (‘They do look very alike,’ says Debbie) have been offered the freedom of the four-acre, £400,000 compound, enriched, thanks to volunteers, with climbing frames, a hammock, a giant tyre and a wobble pole. Kai’s door is opened first, and he takes that all-important first step. After a sojourn back indoors with his fireman’s toy, he ventures out again, this time much bolder. Riku, the shyer of the two, refuses to leave his den, standing on his back paws unable to believe his beady eyes. But there is no stopping Kai! He’s cantering! Within minutes, having ripped the bark off a tree stump as easily as if it were a plaster, he has discovered the lake. Whoosh!
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Post by brobear on Jan 31, 2019 16:04:50 GMT -5
Kai.
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Post by brobear on Feb 13, 2019 13:59:09 GMT -5
Супер силни мускули помагат на мечката да копае корени и да намира храна. Тези мускули са разположени в „гърбицата“ на кафявата мечка. Така кафявите мечки могат да преместват големи камъни, дънери и да копаят в твърда почва използвайки острите си и дълги нокти, когато си правят бърлогите. Brown bears have extremely strong muscles, which are located in what is referred to as the ‘hump’ of the bear. These shoulder muscles allow bears to not only up dig up roots and to forage for food, but to also move large rocks and logs, as well as to dig through hard soil using their long sharp claws when making their dens.
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Post by brobear on Feb 15, 2019 14:03:00 GMT -5
Posted by Shadow - wildfact.com/forum/ Here some information about brown bears and how they use prey of other predators. I am not sure how much it is studied, but at least in Russian far east a little bit. Interesting part was, that from total trail of one studied bear, 22% of that was tracking other predators and following them to find something to eat. Of course this bear was most probably one not hibernating. It would be interesting to see results from time, when all bears are awaken in early spring and late autumn especially. And from many bears. Quote: "Feeding on Carrion and Prey of Other Predators Brown bears are commonly consuming dead animals found by them (Zavatsky, 1979, Zyryanov, 1979, Kaletskaya, 1981, Zhiryakov, 1987, Pazhetnov, 1990), including in Sikhote-Alin (Bromlei, 1965, Matyushkin, 1974, Darman, 1982, Yudin, 1993, Zaitsev and Seryodkin, 2011). The results of the capture of bears conducted by us in the Sikhote-Alin Nature Reserve have shown that they are attracted to carrion (Seryodkin et al., 2005b). In 1992–2001 six brown bears were caught with the use of bait: three animals using meat bait and three — using fish bait. The rate of successful capture was much higher using these baits (560 days/individual), rather than using trails and marked trees (1196 days/individual). Meat baits are consumed by the animals in any season. Besides dead and wounded animals bears eat the prey of other predators and the remnants of their meals in Sikhote-Alin. Most often, the bears consume prey of tigers and lynxes(Matyushkin, 1974, Kostoglod, 1976, Seryodkin et al., 2005a). A case of using the prey of yellow-throated marten is known (Zaitsev, 1991). Large bears cannot only eat up remains after tigers, but also chase them off their prey or join the fight (Sysoev, 1966, Kucherenko, 1971, Kostoglod, 1976, Seryodkin et al., 2005a). In the snow period some bears purposely track tigers and lynxes to find the remains or take away their prey (Kostoglod, 1976, Seryodkin et al., 2012). According to observations of Kostoglod, the trail of a bear not settled in its lair tracking other predators in order to capture their prey was 22% of the total length of the bear trail (44 km out of 200 km) (Kostoglod, 1976). In the spring before snow melting bears look for animals which died during winter and prey of tigers buried in snow (Seryodkin et al., 2005a). For this purpose bears go along the floodplain of a river or a creek, often leaving the path to examine interesting places, winding, sometimes stopping to sniff. A bear is able to smell the odor of the remains of an animal at a distance of 250 m at a temperature below 0 °C. Bears also go in the footsteps of their relatives, picking uneaten remains of carrion. Snowtracking of three brown bears in the basin of a creek in the Sikhote-Alin Nature Reserve in April revealed that along the 17 km trail the bears have four times found the remains of red deer crushed by tigers during the winter, and once — a whole red deer that died of a broken limb. In three cases other bears have been on these tiger prey before them." Source: www.sciencedirect.com/science/ar...201630027X
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Post by King Kodiak on Feb 15, 2019 18:28:26 GMT -5
Very nice post by Shadow. i think all that is just a copy of WCS RUSSIA, chapter 19.
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Post by King Kodiak on Feb 15, 2019 18:32:04 GMT -5
“Large bears cannot only eat up remains after tigers, but also chase them off their prey or join the fight (Sysoev, 1966, Kucherenko, 1971, Kostoglod, 1976, Seryodkin et al., 2005a). In the snow period some bears purposely track tigers and lynxes to find the remains or take away their prey (Kostoglod, 1976, Seryodkin et al., 2012).”
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Post by brobear on Mar 6, 2019 16:01:27 GMT -5
The Winton Foundation for the Welfare of Bears
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Post by Deleted on Apr 8, 2019 1:17:51 GMT -5
“Large bears cannot only eat up remains after tigers, but also chase them off their prey or join the fight (Sysoev, 1966, Kucherenko, 1971, Kostoglod, 1976, Seryodkin et al., 2005a). In the snow period some bears purposely track tigers and lynxes to find the remains or take away their prey (Kostoglod, 1976, Seryodkin et al., 2012).” Nice account you found their. Brown bears are indeed kleptoparasites.
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Post by King Kodiak on Sept 17, 2019 19:51:56 GMT -5
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Post by OldGreenGrolar on Sept 17, 2019 20:29:19 GMT -5
/\ Nice account. The Ussuri brown bear displaying dominance over the Siberian tiger in an indirect way: Black grizzly rubbing its paw marks on areas where the tigers mark their territory.
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Post by King Kodiak on Sept 17, 2019 21:37:05 GMT -5
/\ Nice account. The Ussuri brown bear displaying dominance over the Siberian tiger in an indirect way: Black grizzly rubbing its paw marks on areas where the tigers mark their territory. Yeah, the bears actually rub their scent in place of the tiger’s urine and above it. By this, the bears are saying, “dont come to this area kitty cat”
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Post by brobear on Dec 26, 2019 7:11:47 GMT -5
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Post by brobear on Jan 1, 2020 5:58:48 GMT -5
www.bearconservation.org.uk/ussuri-or-amur-brown-bear/ Accepted scientific name: Ursus arctos lasiotus (Gray, 1867). Description: Similar to the Kamchatka brown bear (Ursus arctos beringianus) but generally darker in colour with a more elongated skull and less elevated forehead. Males can be up to twice the size of females ranging in weight from around 200 to 600 kg. Range: Heilongjiang Province and the Amur Oblast, Northeast China; five isolated regional populations on Hokkaido, Japan; Ussuri and Amur river region south of the Stanovoy Mountains, Russia (borders with China); Sakhalin Island and Kunashiri, Etorofu and Iturup Islands in the Kuril Islands chain, Russia (immediately north of Hokkaido) and the Shantar Islands, Russia. Some authorities believe that the bears found on Hokkaido and on Kunashiri and Etorofu Island in the Kuril chain are a separate subspecies, the Hokkaido Brown Bear, (Ursus arctos yesoensis). Habitat: Forests, mountainous regions and coastal areas. Status: Overall Ursus arctos is classified as of least concern by the IUCN but most if not all of the Ussuri subspecies seem vulnerable and in decline. Only a few bears remain in North Korea where they are listed as a National Monument and protected. About 500 to 1,500 are present in Heilongjiang and are classed as a vulnerable species. On Hokkaido the small western Ishikari subpopulation is listed as an endangered species in Japan’s Red Data Book.In 2015 the Hokkaido local government estimated the total population on the island at 10,600 bears. Life span: Unknown but assumed to be around 20 to 30 years in common with other brown bears in the wild. Food: The diet of these omnivorous bears varies according to the local availability of foodstuffs and includes nuts, pinenuts, berries, acorns, pine bark and sap, grasses and their rhizomes, lilly and other roots and bulbs. Meat includes fish, small and sometimes large mammals, birds, larvae, ants and other insects. Although encounters are rare, Ussuri brown bears will attack Asiatic black bears but fatalities have not been recorded. Undoubtedly black bears will be eaten as carrion if found. Ussuri brown bears will feed on Amur (Siberian) tiger kills and are themselves a prey animal of the tigers. There is evidence to suggest that, in Japan at least, U a lasiotus is moving towards a largely herbivorous diet (see “More Information” below). Behaviour:. The bears den in the winter, mainly in excavated burrows or within rock outcrops but also in nests built on the ground. They are solitary except during mating and when with cubs. Cubs are born in the winter den and will remain with the mother for two to three years during which time she will not become pregnant again. Females are sexually mature at around three years of age. Threats: Legal hunting in Russia and Japan and poaching across the range. The illegal body parts trade, some animals may be taken for use in bear-baiting, loss of habitat and associated human conflict particularly in Hokkaido, Japan. 600 kilograms is equal to 1,322.77 pounds (avoirdupois)
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Post by brobear on Jan 1, 2020 6:27:38 GMT -5
russianbearhunt.com/ AMUR BROWN BEAR Ursus arctos lasiotus (Ussuri brown bear, black grizzly) DESCRIPTION & TAXONOMY It is smaller and darker than the Kamchatka brown bear, with a differently shaped skull and much larger teeth. The coat is often almost black in color. The skull is longer and narrower, with especially long nasal bones and it is flatter in profile, being less elevated over the nose. The ears are noticeably hairy. Consists of the following races listed by various authorities: lasiotus (northern China), cavifrons (northwestern Manchuria), mandchuricus (Primorsky Krai), jessoensis (Sakhalin), yesoensis (Hokkaido), and melanarctos (Hokkaido). The record bear, obtained in Khabarovsk region scored 27.6 inches. DISTRIBUTION Russia: Southern Kuril Islands, Sakhalin, Maritime Territory, and the Ussuri/Amur river region south of the Stanovoy Range. China: Northeastern Heilongjiang. Japan: Hokkaido.
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Post by brobear on Jan 7, 2020 15:12:11 GMT -5
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Post by King Kodiak on Jan 7, 2020 16:57:42 GMT -5
Reply # 37, that is a nice and big Ussuri brown bear. The king of the RFE.
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