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Post by brobear on Oct 30, 2019 20:22:12 GMT -5
This report reads "relatively big bears" several times, but gives no actual size reference.
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Post by King Kodiak on Oct 30, 2019 21:29:00 GMT -5
This report reads "relatively big bears" several times, but gives no actual size reference. You are right, i noticed, i would have loved to see actual weights. The conclusion of the report is that brown bears were abundant in Slovakia in the past.
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Post by brobear on Nov 3, 2019 17:55:54 GMT -5
www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/07/180704112036.htm New study questions when the brown bear became extinct in Britain Date: July 4, 2018 Source: University of Nottingham New research provides insights into the extinction of Britain's largest native carnivore. The study -- 'The Presence of the brown bear in Holocene Britain: a review of the evidence' published in Mammal Review -- is the first of its kind to collate and evaluate the evidence for the brown bear in post-Ice Age Britain. Previous research has failed to establish when the brown bear became extinct, and whether or not remains that have been found are of wild native bears or of bears that have been imported from overseas. There is also little evidence to determine why the bear became extinct on British shores. The author of the paper, Dr Hannah O'Regan from the Department of Classics and Archaeology at the University of Nottingham, says: "The brown bear was Britain's largest carnivore, yet we know surprisingly little about its history, both as a wild animal and in its relation to humans. "There has never been a comprehensive review of the evidence of brown bears in Britain, and I believe what we are looking at could show that they were sadly killed off earlier than we previously thought." Dr O'Regan has examined the location of the sites where materials have previously been found, the dating evidence and the body parts present, to determine when the bear became extinct and where it was imported from other countries. "Previous extinction evidence is unclear and I would suggest two scenarios should be considered -- that they became extinct in the late Neolithic or Bronze Age, or, in the early medieval period. "Most of the remains that have been discovered from the Iron Age and Anglo-Saxon (early medieval) periods relate to skins that were included in burials," says Dr O'Regan. "Whilst there were live animals present during the Roman, medieval and post-medieval periods (when they were used for entertainment), these were most certainly imported, rather than native animals." Interpretations of where animals were living can be affected by the use of data from archaeological sites where their remains may have come from several different sources. For example, determining when wild animals were present in the past is not straight forward, particularly when dealing with the brown bear where furs and live animals were moved and traded over huge distance and over long periods. The remains of bears in Britain range from full skeletons to isolated toes or claws, and the sites range from caves to human cremations. "At present the question of when and why the brown bear became extinct is impossible to answer, as there is still much that we don't know about its distribution. There are 57 sites across Britain where clear dates have been determined, but there are an additional 25 that are thought to be Holocene, but have no further information. "There is also a gap in radiocarbon dates of some 4000 years from the Mesolithic to the Bronze Age. Some of this gap is filled with specimens from archaeological sites, but further research is needed to establish bear distribution in the past. "Whilst we can speculate on when the bear became extinct based on existing evidence, more research, particularly on the many undated specimens from caves and fens is needed before a clearer patterns of where brown bear distribution and extinction in Britain emerges," according to one of the researchers. Story Source: Materials provided by University of Nottingham.
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Post by brobear on Nov 14, 2019 13:10:05 GMT -5
www.stunningslovakia.com/wildlife.htmlThe European Brown Bear is a subspecies of the Brown Bear (Ursus Arctos). The Brown Bear lives in the forests and mountains of Europe, northern North America, and Asia. It is the most widely distributed bear in the world. However in various places its population is decreasing drastically for a number of reasons, primarily suitable habitat destruction and culling due to conflict with humans. In mainland Europe the Brown Bear has a scattered and disconnected distribution. The small populations in Spain, Italy and the Alps are barely sustainable. In Scandinavia the population is connected to the very large population of Russia. The population in the Balkans, mainly in Croatia and Slovenia, is relatively large but disconnected from the major population of Europe that of the Carpathian Arc. It is essential to preserve this Carpathian population. Slovakia is situated at the westernmost point of the Arc. Here the brown bear is concentrated in the forests and mountains of central and eastern Slovakia. Population estimates for this area vary enormously from 400 to 1400 animals. This discrepancy alone highlights the need for further research. These omnivorous giants tend to be solitary animals, except for females and their cubs. Brown bears dig dens for winter hibernation, often holing up on a suitable north-west facing hillside. Females, or sows, den while pregnant and give birth during this winter rest, usually to a pair of cubs. Brown bear cubs nurse on their mother's milk until spring and generally stay with her for some two and a half year so females only reproduce once every three years. The physiology of a brown bear is of a carnivore however they are highly omnivorous. Much of their diet consists of nuts, berries, fruit, leaves and roots. Bears are poor hunters and in Slovakia they rarely eat other animals. The majority of the meat in their diet is from thawed carcasses found in melting avalanche snow through the spring. Despite their enormous size, brown bears are extremely fast, having been clocked at speeds of 48 kilometers per hour. They can be dangerous to humans, particularly if surprised or if a person gets between a mother bear and her cubs.
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Post by brobear on Nov 14, 2019 13:10:37 GMT -5
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eurasian_brown_bear
Brown bears were present in Britain until no later than 1000 AD, when they were exterminated through overhunting. Eurasian brown bears were used in Ancient Rome for fighting in arenas. The strongest bears apparently came from Caledonia and Dalmatia. In antiquity, the Eurasian brown bear was largely carnivorous, with 80% of its diet consisting of animal matter. However, as its habitat increasingly disappeared, meat consisted of only 40% of its dietary intake in the late Middle Ages, till modern times where meat now amounts to little more than 10–15% of its diet. Unlike in America, where an average of two people a year are killed by bears, Scandinavia only has records of three fatal bear attacks in the last century.
Modern research has made it possible to track the origin of the subspecies. It is difficult to tell anything about the Eurasian brown bear, but the species to which it belongs might have developed about 5 million years ago. Researchers have also found that the Eurasian brown bear was separated about 850,000 years ago, one branch based in Western Europe and the other branch in Russia, Eastern Europe and Asia. Through research of mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) researchers have found that the European family has been divided into two subgroups, one in the Iberian Peninsula and the other in the Balkans. There are four major populations in Scandinavia, all with their core area in Sweden. By analyzing the mtDNA of the southern population researchers have found that they probably have come from populations in the Pyrenees in Southern France and Spain and the Cantabrian Mountains (Spain). Bears from these populations spread to southern Scandinavia after the last ice age. The northern bear populations has its origin in the Finnish/Russian population. Their ancestors probably survived the ice age in the ice-free areas, west of the Ural Mountains, and thereafter spread to Northern Europe.
Although their inclusion as of Least Concern on the 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species refers to the global species, not to the Eurasian brown bear specifically, local populations are becoming increasingly scarce. And as the IUCN itself adds Least Concern does not always mean that species are not at risk. There are declining species that are evaluated as Least Concern. Brown bears could once be found across most of northern Eurasia. The brown bear has long been extinct in Britain and Ireland, but it still exists in Northern Europe and in Russia. There is a tiny population in the Pyrenees, on the border between Spain and France, which is on the edge of extinction, as well as an equally threatened group in the Cantabrian Mountains in Spain. There are also populations in the Abruzzi and Trentino regions of Italy. Populations in Baltoscandia are steady and slowly increasing – they include over 2000 bears in Sweden, another 1200 in Finland, 700 in Estonia and around 70 in Norway. Large populations can be found in Albania, Romania, Slovakia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Slovenia, Macedonia, Bulgaria and Georgia; smaller, but still significant populations can also be found in Greece, Serbia and Montenegro; in 2005, there were an estimated 200 in Ukraine; these populations are part of two distinct metapopulations: the Carpathian (over 5,000 individuals), and the Dinaric-Pindos (Balkans), with around 3,000 individuals. The largest brown bear population in Europe can be found in Russia; it has now recovered from an all-time low caused by intensive hunting prior to the Russian revolution of 1917 Globally, the largest population is found east of the Ural mountain range, in the large Siberian forests; brown bears are also present in smaller numbers in parts of central Asia (former Soviet states). Other subspecies of brown bear persist in small, isolated and for the most part highly threatened populations in Turkey, Iran, Afghanistan, Pakistan, parts of northwest India, central China, and on the island of Hokkaidō in Japan.
Now extinct in Austria.
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Post by King Kodiak on Nov 21, 2019 6:30:21 GMT -5
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Post by brobear on Nov 21, 2019 7:18:19 GMT -5
Violence in Chicago is horrible. Should we then have open season on citizens of Chicago? I don't think so.
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Post by King Kodiak on Nov 21, 2019 17:11:58 GMT -5
Violence in Chicago is horrible. Should we then have open season on citizens of Chicago? I don't think so. I definitely agree. The good news is that the brown bear population in Romania is increasing.
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Post by OldGreenGrolar on Nov 21, 2019 17:49:42 GMT -5
I seems that even European brown bears are not to be underestimated.
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Post by BruteStrength on Nov 24, 2019 1:35:41 GMT -5
How much do the Carpathian bears and scottish bears weigh King Kodiak?
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Post by King Kodiak on Nov 24, 2019 7:54:50 GMT -5
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Post by King Kodiak on Dec 26, 2019 7:35:56 GMT -5
The Cantabrian brown bear or Iberian brown bear (formerly Ursus arctos pyrenaicus) is a population of Eurasian brown bears (Ursus arctos arctos) living in the Cantabrian Mountains of Spain. On average, females weigh 85 kg (187 lb), but can reach a weight of 150 kg (330 lb). Males average 115 kg (254 lb), though they can weigh as much as 200 kg (440 lb). The bear measures between 1.6 and 2 m (5.2 and 6.6 ft) in length, and between 0.90 and 1 m (3.0 and 3.3 ft) at shoulder height. In Spain, it is known as the Oso pardo cantábrico and, more locally, in Asturias as Osu. It is timid and will avoid human contact whenever possible. The Cantabrian brown bear can live for around 25–30 years in the wild. Believed to have originated in Asia, the brown bear (Ursus arctos, L. 1758) spread across the Northern Hemisphere, colonising much of the Eurasian land mass as well as North America. Experts on bears are continuing debate on the scientific classification of bears, of which there are currently eight recognised species although some experts recognise more subspecies. In the early 20th century, Cabrera (1914) considered the Cantabrian brown bear to be a distinct subspecies of European brown bear (U. a. arctos; in itself a classification currently under debate) and named it Ursus arctos pyrenaicus (Fischer, 1829), characterised by the yellow colouring of the points of its hair and by its black paws. Since then however, phylogenetic and mitochondrial DNA research has led to the general scientific consensus that the European brown bear is not a separate subspecies. These recent studies have also found that the European populations fall into two major genetic lineages; an eastern type and a western type. The Cantabrian brown bear forms a part of the western type, the effective barriers of the Pleistoceneice sheets of the Alps and the Balkans having directed the spread of the brown bear respectively, north and eastwards and south and westwards. A further distinction of the two clades has been made within the western lineage following post-glacial recolonisation after the Last Glacial Maximum (LGM); one consisting of the bear populations of Southern Scandinavia, the Pyrenees and Cantabrian Mountainsof Northern Spain and the other consisting of the bear populations of the Southern Alps, the Apennines, the Dinaric Alps, the Rila Mountains, the Rhodope Mountains and the Stara Planina Mountains.[5] This leaves the remnant population of brown bears in the south of Sweden as the nearest relatives of the Cantabrian brown bear. The last indigenous, reproductive female in the Pyrenees, Canelle, was shot by a hunter in 2004. Brown bears from Sloveniaare now being introduced to the Pyrenees. CANTABRIAN MOUNTAINS en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cantabrian_brown_bear
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Post by brobear on Dec 26, 2019 7:41:22 GMT -5
Nice discovery King Kodiak.
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Post by King Kodiak on Dec 26, 2019 7:43:37 GMT -5
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Post by King Kodiak on Dec 26, 2019 7:46:03 GMT -5
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Post by King Kodiak on Dec 26, 2019 7:47:22 GMT -5
Nice discovery King Kodiak. Thanks, but we already knew about this bear, but we just didnt have a thread for it. I think it deserves.
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Post by brobear on Dec 26, 2019 8:00:19 GMT -5
greenadventurestravel.com/Features/Pyrenees-bears.html This website uses cookies to ensure the best experience. Brown bear in springtime Brown bears in the Pyrenees The brown bear in the Pyrenees is a subject that stirs up strong emotions. The reintroduction of this shy animal has not been welcomed by everybody, as witnessed by the spray painted declarations of 'Non aux Ours' that can be seen on random sections of tarmac and on building walls in the central French Pyrenees. So what's the story? There have always been bears (Latin name Ursus arctos) in mountains that form the natural border between France and Spain. In days gone by, the bear population was widespread and plentiful with around 150 bears thought to inhabit the Pyrenees in the early 1900s.
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Post by brobear on Dec 26, 2019 8:03:59 GMT -5
Thanks, but we already knew about this bear, but we just didnt have a thread for it. I think it deserves. *Yes, I know. Just as with the American grizzly, there is a variety of the European brown bear ( Ursus arctos arctos ). But I have an interest in the Pyrenees bear. A work of fiction:
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Post by King Kodiak on Dec 26, 2019 17:39:58 GMT -5
Evidence of non-hibernation in Cantabrian brown bears Evidence of non-hibernation in brown bears Ursus arctos Linnaeus, 1758 on the Iberian Peninsula has existed since the Middle Ages. We systematically monitored brown bears in the Cantabrian Mountains (Northern Spain) by recording tracks and sightings from 1998 to 2007 to document hibernation behaviour. Our results indicate that females with yearlings and solitary yearlings were more active in winter than bears over two years old. Intensive snow tracking and direct observations of five family groups indicated that they travelled, fed and defecated in winter, which are activities not compatible with the physiological state of hibernation. Also, based on tracking data, the maximum period between two consecutive locations of active family groups in winter was less than that needed by bears to emerge from a state of hibernation (6 days). We conclude that the family groups which we monitored in winter did not hibernate. Key words Ursus arctos-hibernation-breeding females-Cantabrian Mountains-Spai www.researchgate.net/publication/226990868_Evidence_of_non-hibernation_in_Cantabrian_brown_bears
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Post by brobear on Dec 26, 2019 18:03:00 GMT -5
This is interesting. I've never heard this mentioned before. The food resources in that area must be good.
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