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Post by Deleted on Apr 8, 2019 1:20:31 GMT -5
WOJTEK-THE MOST FAMOUS SYRIAN BROWN BEAR OF ALL TIME. He is actually shorter than the humans but he still posesses great strength like any other brown bear.
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Post by BruteStrength on Apr 8, 2019 3:28:26 GMT -5
I remember hearing about this. Kodiak send me this story on youtube some time back. I love this story.
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Post by King Kodiak on Apr 9, 2019 18:45:13 GMT -5
SYRIAN BROWN BEAR (URSUS ARCTOS SYRIACUS)
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Post by Deleted on Apr 15, 2019 19:45:47 GMT -5
I’m new to the forum and I hope you can answer a question for me. There is an area nonprofit that claims to have rescued several Syrian brown bears from a “failed breeding program” probably 15 years or more ago. I have tried researching failed Syrian bear breeding programs and have not been successful in finding any programs. This nonprofit is quite vague and in all articles I’ve read highlighting their endeavors, this breeding program is always mentioned but never by name or location. Would anyone have any ideas?
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Post by Deleted on Apr 16, 2019 9:14:41 GMT -5
I’m new to the forum and I hope you can answer a question for me. There is an area nonprofit that claims to have rescued several Syrian brown bears from a “failed breeding program” probably 15 years or more ago. I have tried researching failed Syrian bear breeding programs and have not been successful in finding any programs. This nonprofit is quite vague and in all articles I’ve read highlighting their endeavors, this breeding program is always mentioned but never by name or location. Would anyone have any ideas? 6abc.com/pets-animals/syrian-brown-bears-give-owner-hugs-/3155071/Here is one
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Post by Deleted on Apr 16, 2019 9:58:21 GMT -5
Yes, but this Orphaned Wildlife Center vaguely references this failed breeding program all the time in numerous articles written about them, never mentioning it by name. Those articles are written to attract attention to the nonprofit to raise money and I find the vague origin stories of how they acquired the bears unsettling. They are not a reliable source of information as the same people also use the bears in a for profit business taking some of the bears on the fair/festival circuit under a different name.
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Post by King Kodiak on Apr 30, 2019 6:29:34 GMT -5
SYRIAN BROWN BEAR (URSUS ARCTOS SYRIACUS)
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Post by Deleted on May 9, 2019 5:25:55 GMT -5
SYRIAN BROWN BEAR (URSUS ARCTOS SYRIACUS) Nice picture. This syrian brown bear is more lightly coloured than the grizzly bear it seems (a different shade of brown).
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Post by King Kodiak on Nov 1, 2019 16:14:09 GMT -5
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Post by brobear on Nov 2, 2019 3:58:02 GMT -5
Lucky. One day I hope to see these bears up close. Did the bears look friendly? Yes. I had always read about how small these bears are; being from a most rocky desert-like environment. But at Tiger World, where they have lots of tigers and several African lions, the male bear, Brutus, was clearly bigger than any of their big cats.
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Post by King Kodiak on Nov 2, 2019 7:39:55 GMT -5
Lucky. One day I hope to see these bears up close. Did the bears look friendly? Yes. I had always read about how small these bears are; being from a most rocky desert-like environment. But at Tiger World, where they have lots of tigers and several African lions, the male bear, Brutus, was clearly bigger than any of their big cats. Who said that Brobear?
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Post by brobear on Nov 2, 2019 7:54:32 GMT -5
Lots of sites, including the first one I randomly went to: bearsoftheworld.net/syrian_brown_bear.asp quote: CHARACTERISTICS The Syrian brown bear weighs up to 550 pounds and measures anywhere from 40 to 55 inches from nose to tail. It is overall the smallest bear of the Ursus arctos species. *Note: so many brown bear species hold claim to "the smallest".
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Post by King Kodiak on Nov 2, 2019 8:07:11 GMT -5
Lucky. One day I hope to see these bears up close. Did the bears look friendly? Yes. I had always read about how small these bears are; being from a most rocky desert-like environment. But at Tiger World, where they have lots of tigers and several African lions, the male bear, Brutus, was clearly bigger than any of their big cats. Oh i see you had already posted this on your reply # 18 on page 1.
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Post by King Kodiak on Nov 2, 2019 8:11:56 GMT -5
Lots of sites, including the first one I randomly went to: bearsoftheworld.net/syrian_brown_bear.asp quote: CHARACTERISTICS The Syrian brown bear weighs up to 550 pounds and measures anywhere from 40 to 55 inches from nose to tail. It is overall the smallest bear of the Ursus arctos species. *Note: so many brown bear species hold claim to "the smallest". Yeah, every site just states that the Syrian brown bear is the smallest subspecie of brown bear, none of the sites give the actual average weight. They just mention that it could weight up to 550 lbs. All the sites just copy each other.
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Post by brobear on Nov 2, 2019 8:17:39 GMT -5
Yeah, every site just states that the Syrian brown bear is the smallest subspecie of brown bear, none of the sites give the actual average weight. They just mention that it could weight up to 550 lbs. All the sites just copy each other. My humble opinion: the Himalayan brown bear is on average the smallest and most docile of brown bears - Baloo.
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Post by King Kodiak on Nov 2, 2019 8:29:31 GMT -5
Yeah, every site just states that the Syrian brown bear is the smallest subspecie of brown bear, none of the sites give the actual average weight. They just mention that it could weight up to 550 lbs. All the sites just copy each other. My humble opinion: the Himalayan brown bear is on average the smallest and most docile of brown bears - Baloo. You could be correct, i agree. The Himalayan brown bear average is between 200 to 265 lbs and measure 56 to 65 inches from nose to tail. So it looks like even though it might weigh less on average than the Syrian brown bear, looks like the HBB is longer.
www.bearsoftheworld.net/himalayan_black_bears.asp
We dont know the average weight of the Syrian brown bear but it measures anywhere from 40 to 55 inches from nose to tail.
www.bearsoftheworld.net/syrian_brown_bear.asp
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Post by brobear on Nov 14, 2019 13:32:33 GMT -5
www.redorbit.com/education/reference_library/science_1/mammalia/1112457091/syrian-brown-bear/The Syrian brown bear is the only bear that normally has white claws. Brown bears as a group are one of the largest type of bears, second only to polar bears with the Syrian brown bear (Ursus arctos syriacus) being one of the smallest subspecies of brown bears. Found generally in the mountainous areas in the countries of Iran, Iraq and Turkey and in parts of the former Soviet Union to include Abkhazia, Karabakh, Transcaucasia, Talysh and northern Armenia. These bears find hollow birch trees that flourish in the higher elevations, moreso than pine and other trees, along with caves to serve as den and hibernation spots. When not in a hibernation state, food is found by forging in the forests, grasslands, and meadows. There are some instances that the bears will enter mountain villages to search for food. Usually the fur is a very light brown straw color. The longer hair on the withers is often a different shade with a gray-brown base and on some bears may appear as a dark stripe along the back. The skull of an adult male could measure an approximate 12-15in. There is a group of bears larger in size and darker in color that some experts believe are hybrid populations of Eurasian and Syrian bears. During the Holocene Syrian bears migrated north and populated with the larger Northern bears. These hybrids have a skull size measuring an approximate 14½-15½in and have reddish brown fur with no shades of black and brown. Due to habitat loss and poaching, the Syrian brown bear population is on a continual decline. Already extinct in Lebanon, Israel and Egypt, these bears are most recently gone from Syria. Not only are bears a target for big game hunting, the bear’s bile (ursodeoxycholic acid) is used in traditional Chinese medicine as a cure for rheumatism, gall stones and poor eyesight and is considered a valuable material.
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Post by King Kodiak on Nov 23, 2019 9:26:26 GMT -5
I seems that even European brown bears are not to be underestimated. Well the Giant Carpathian brown bears from Romania (Ursus arctos arctos), also from Dalmatia (Croacia), (Ursus arctos arctos), and the Scottish brown bear (Ursus arctos Caledoniensis), along with the Atlas bear (Ursus arctos crowtheri), were the ones that defeated the Barbary lions in the Roman blood games. According to Michel Pastoureau, the first 3 were practically invencible.
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Post by brobear on Apr 3, 2020 3:12:10 GMT -5
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syrian_brown_bear A genetic study shows that all brown bears occurring in the Caucasus at least matrilineally are monophyletic and belong to the Eurasian brown bear (Ursus arctos arctos). Subspecies: U. a. syriacus / arctos. The Syrian brown bear is the bear mentioned in the Bible. The protectiveness of a mother bear towards her cubs is cited proverbially three times (2 Sam. 17:8; Prov. 17:12; Hos. 13:8) in the Hebrew Bible. The Syrian brown bear is also mentioned in 2 Kings 2:23-25 mauling 42 children who were teasing Elisha regarding his hairline. Wojtek (1942–1963) was a Syrian brown bear. Purchased by Polish soldiers in Iran during World War II, Wojtek became the company mascot. Initially given the rank of private in order to justify his presence in the military camp, he was subsequently promoted to corporal and assisted the soldiers in loading artillery. After the war, Wojtek retired to the Edinburgh Zoo where he became a popular and beloved attraction. His military service is memorialized in both Scotland and Poland.
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Post by brobear on May 16, 2020 17:41:04 GMT -5
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20345670 Geographic and genetic boundaries of brown bear (Ursus arctos) population in the Caucasus. The taxonomic status of brown bears in the Caucasus remains unclear. Several morphs or subspecies have been identified from the morphological (craniological) data, but the status of each of these subspecies has never been verified by molecular genetic methods. We analysed mitochondrial DNA sequences (control region) to reveal phylogenetic relationships and infer divergence time between brown bear subpopulations in the Caucasus. We estimated migration and gene flow from both mitochondrial DNA and microsatellite allele frequencies, and identified possible barriers to gene flow among the subpopulations. Our suggestion is that all Caucasian bears belong to the nominal subspecies of Ursus arctos. Our results revealed two genetically and geographically distinct maternal haplogroups: one from the Lesser Caucasus and the other one from the Greater Caucasus. The genetic divergence between these haplogroups dates as far back as the beginning of human colonization of the Caucasus. Our analysis of the least-cost distances between the subpopulations suggests humans as a major barrier to gene flow. The low genetic differentiation inferred from microsatellite allele frequencies indicates that gene flow between the two populations in the Caucasus is maintained through the movements of male brown bears. The Likhi Ridge that connects the Greater and Lesser Caucasus mountains is the most likely corridor for this migration.
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