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Post by brobear on Apr 23, 2019 2:46:15 GMT -5
NOTORIOUS GRIZZLY BEARS BY W.P HUBBARD... a very good book, one of several that I read about the historical grizzly by those who were there. Those bears, while not monsters, were bigger and more aggressive than those of today who have long since learned to fear man and his guns.
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Post by brobear on Apr 30, 2019 18:43:45 GMT -5
Notice the grizzly injured by the badger was a young bear. Just like people, a young bear makes mistakes sometimes at a heavy price. Bears are curious and this bear got his delicate nose too close to the savage jaws of the badger. I have read of young curious bears getting too close to a porcupine; sometimes leading to the bear's starvation.
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Post by King Kodiak on Apr 30, 2019 18:52:03 GMT -5
Notice the grizzly injured by the badger was a young bear. Just like people, a young bear makes mistakes sometimes at a heavy price. Bears are curious and this bear got his delicate nose too close to the savage jaws of the badger. I have read of young curious bears getting too close to a porcupine; sometimes leading to the bear's starvation. Yeah, a young grizzly. i tried to post this in the “grizzly vs small criters” thread but i did not find it. Yes, if you read the third page above, it talks about a 6 month old brown bear cub blinded by porcupine quills.
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Post by BruteStrength on May 7, 2019 21:05:29 GMT -5
Indians fear the grizzly above all animals. This is why bears are legendary.
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Post by Deleted on May 9, 2019 5:15:32 GMT -5
Indians fear the grizzly above all animals. This is why bears are legendary. I would rather say the grizzly bears are legendary animals and thats why Indians fear them . However, you are 100% correct. The brown bears are the largest carnivores in the great majority of their domains.
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Post by King Kodiak on May 10, 2019 20:43:10 GMT -5
THREE HUNTING HOUNDS FOUND AN OUTLAW CATTLE KILLING GRIZZLY, ONE HAD A CRUSHED HEAD, ANOTHER HAD A BROKEN BACK AND CAVE-IN SIDES, THE OTHER ONE HAD A LEG AND SHOULDER TORN COMPLETELY OFF.
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Post by brobear on Feb 10, 2020 15:01:55 GMT -5
ODE to BABYSITTERS from true grizz by Douglas H. Chadwick When traveling in Alaska several years ago, I read a newspaper report about a couple living in the bush near a salmon stream. One day as they looked up from their chores, they suddenly became aware that their daughter was no longer in sight. Slightly past the toddler stage, she has apparently wandered some distance from the cabin, for the parents heard no answer as thet raced about calling her name. They widened their search but couldn't find her anywhere and feared she had fallen into the river. After a while, she came skipping back home. They hugged her frantically and then demanded to know where she had been. "I was out playing with the bear family," she told them. Content to have her home safe, they probably laughed with relief at the imagination of children. Some time afterward, they walked along the river and found their daughter's footprints mixed with the tracks of a large grizzly and two smaller ones. From what they and local experts could read of the story in the sand, she had been playing with the bear family.
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Post by OldGreenGrolar on Feb 10, 2020 16:36:00 GMT -5
/\Animals know the heart of the person who approaches them. Brings back memories of a fictional story of mine where a little girl actually touched a blue ice bear and has also met a blue diamond grizzly female and her cub. As a result this little girl does not fear animals. Looks like my fictional story on the blue ice bear might have inspired this little girl to do the same 😉.
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Post by brobear on Feb 10, 2020 19:34:54 GMT -5
ODE to BABYSITTERS from true grizz by Douglas H. Chadwick "A 16-month-old baby in Iran was found safe and slumbering in the den of a mother bear after being missed for three days. The Kayhan reported that the baby was the child of nomadic parents in western Lorestan province who found their child missing after returning to their tent from the fields. A search party later discovered the toddler in the bear's den about six miles from the encampment. The team said the child had been breast-fed by the bear, but doctors reported the baby was in good health. Other reporters noted that bears in Iran are sometimes captured for the entertainment in local bazaars as "dancing bears". -from The Missoulian, a local Montana newspaper, October 8, 2001.
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Post by OldGreenGrolar on Feb 10, 2020 21:05:42 GMT -5
This bear has much more compassion and kindness than some humans.
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Post by brobear on Feb 19, 2020 6:12:50 GMT -5
The Winton Foundation for the Welfare of Bears STOP RIGHT THERE! Have you thought how words have power - particularly when talking about bears? A résumé from a great article by BearSmart.com: Words are powerful. They can find their way deep into the very fabric of our being and belief systems, shaping our thoughts and actions. Words influence our perceptions and affect attitudes. They can inspire and encourage the right behaviour; or hinder and create apathy and inaction. Consider the sentence; “Grizzly bears are dangerous, aggressive animals.” Without any context to this sentence, it misrepresents the grizzly’s character and behavioural traits. Grizzly bears are not dangerous and aggressive in all situations at all times. They may, however, have the potential to exhibit these traits in certain circumstances. It is more accurate to state, for example, that “mother grizzly bears have the potential to behave aggressively when defending their young - getting too close to a grizzly sow and her cub(s) can lead to a dangerous situation.”
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Post by brobear on Mar 12, 2020 1:11:11 GMT -5
www.yellowstonegrizzlyproject.org/home/not-all-who-wander-are-lost-movements-and-ranges-of-grizzlies-in-the-greater-yellowstone-the-story-of-grizzly-480?fbclid=IwAR2X6M3Z2fByVjNeLrcSemBLxAa8lJUpTEZy5FK6mwIWDRhuq4otO6-gL7I "Not all who wander are lost": Movements and ranges of grizzlies in the Greater Yellowstone & The story of Grizzly 480. 1. Grizzlies are omnivorous and eat primarily vegetation. 2. Often, they will roam widely in search of berries and food sources during late summer and autumn (dispersal, and motivated by food) 3. They are not territorial (their home ranges do overlap!) 4. Adult and subadult males will have home ranges known to be several times larger than that of females 5. Home range is directly impacted by population density 6. Bears may move hundreds of kilometers during dispersal. 7. Grizzlies are known to avoid some environments such as high elevations with rocks, snow, mainly because of limited food; however, that does not exclude them crossing such an environment. 8. Grizzlies are slow to mature and reproduce (one of the slowest reproductive rates amongst all terrestrial mammals)
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Post by brobear on Apr 3, 2020 4:46:15 GMT -5
factsanddetails.com/asian/Northern_Asian_and_European_Animals/sub2_8a/entry-4901.html Brown Bear Behavior Brown bears like to play. Even adults have been observed sliding down snowy hills, toying with fish by tossing them around, play wrestling in water holes, scratching their backs on trees, and playing tag with ravens. They have also been observed shadowboxing with their own breath and making snowballs. Doug Seus, a Hollywood animal trainer told National Geographic, "I train black bears, wolves and cougars for film work...My grizzlies and Kodiaks are the hardest to tame, but the easiest to train; generally you only have to teach them something once. They can also be the most affectionate." Some brown bears can pick up a heavy object and spin it on their claws like spinning basketball on a finger. Alerted bears sometimes stand on their hind legs, salivate a lot and make a woofing noise. Most charges are bluffs. If a bear charges with its ears erect that generally means it's a bluff. If the ears are folded back and you can hear their teeth popping then the charge is for real. Brown Bear Social Behavior Brown bears are largely solitary animals that wander large distances—up to 80 kilometers (50 miles)—each day. Males cover perhaps twice to three times as much ground as sows. Males are often solitary while sows often hang out with their cubs. Because they cover large distances in the search of food, brown bears are less territorial than other large carnivores. Home ranges of different bears often overlap. When bears come in contact with one another they usually keep their distance and don't fight with one another. Size and aggressiveness often determines pecking order and bear behavior. At the top of the hierarchy are large males. After them are females, willing to fight aggressively for their cubs. Further down the ladder are young males. Dominant bears often get the best territory and the choicest feeding areas. When a group of bears gather together, usually in prime fish areas, sometimes they compete for dominance but generally tolerate each other. Bears that travel together usually walk in single file in the same order.
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Post by brobear on Jun 23, 2022 2:53:11 GMT -5
NOTORIOUS GRIZZLY BEARS BY W.P HUBBARD... a very good book, one of several that I read about the historical grizzly by those who were there. Those bears, while not monsters, were bigger and more aggressive than those of today who have long since learned to fear man and his guns. This topic, "Character" as well as the topic, "Historical Grizzly", and also within other topics, tells us that the grizzly, especially those of the Great Plains and in the Sierra Nevada Mountains, were more aggressive and had less fear of mankind than after the appearance of the modern breech-load rifle after which came the great predator slaughter of the late 19th century and early 20th century. Within the topics named, you will discover plenty of evidence on this subject from numerous reliable sources. Perhaps not purposely, buy systematically, the most predatory bears, which are naturally the more aggressive specimens, have been culled from the grizzly population one bear at a time ever since the Lewis and Clark Expedition saw their first grizzly in the early 1800s. The grizzly never was the monster, as is often portrayed by Hollywood, who will always attack at the first sight of a human being. But, before the modern rifle, the grizzly had far less respect for the killing ability of man. In those days, the grizzly still considered himself to be standing at the top of the food chain. Today, the full-grown male brown bear, in every location where he walks, has only two creatures to fear - man and a bigger bear.
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