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Look ... It's the Three Bears! LOL
Before I visited the arctic to witness the polar bears for myself, I had the impression that these bears were going to be quite aggressive to one another and that I might witness some harsh altercations between adults. Now I'm not saying that it doesn't happen like that in nature, but rather that I didn't witness it in Kaktovik. What I witnessed was adult moms gathering together with their young ones .... with other moms and their young. Adults walking together ... stride for stride ... in harmony and peace. Sure we witnessed "rough housing" around when in the water and even one time when a sow and her cub were fending off an adult who was pursuing them. That encounter I would describe as more of a "serious play" that came with boundaries that weren't to be crossed.
For the most part, you would never see brown bears within each others personal space like we did with the polar bears. It made them seem so peaceful. As you can see, these bears weren't suffering from lack of food, Perhaps that had something to do with it. Funny how things strike you when you're actively engaged in observation.
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One of the Polar Bears at the Toronto Zoo. Visiting the zoo this day, the weather was not great. I was watching the few animals that were out in this weather, and was rather saddened. What I found really sad is that with the current state of global warming in the arctic; this bear might actually be the lucky one in the long run.
Large male Grizzly Bear (Ursus arctos horribilis) grazing on the protein rich sedge grasses of the K'tzim-a-deen Grizzly Bear Sanctuary in the Khutzeymateen Inlet along the west coast north of Prince Rupert, British Columbia, Canada.
This trip was during the spring when Grizzly Bears were actively feeding on the sedge grasses, rich in protein, to regain the weight lost during hibernation and is also the breeding season.
26 May, 2015.
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An endangered and elusive Spectacled Bear peers at me inquisitively from a steep mountainside at about 4000m (13,125 feet) in the Ecuadorian Andes.
Canon 7DM2 | Canon 500mm f/4 IS with Canon 1.4x Teleconverter | 1/1250th | f/5.6 | ISO 1250
Seen from the viewing platform on the Atnarko River in the Bella Coola Valley in Northern BC. We saw a total of 10 different grizzlies.
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original drawing by: Bill Rogers
This drawing was inspired by a dream I had as a child (probably age 3 or 4). In the dream there was a castle at the bottom of a tall mountain. A spiral road went up the mountain and at the top was a cave. In the cave lived a giant bear who would sometimes come and threaten the castle at night. In the dream we walked up the spiral road to fight the bear. It was always terrifying to ascend further up to his cave. Sometimes you'd see him coming down the road as you were ascending. You'd see him round the bend. Other times you got all the way up to his lair and he'd come charging out and chase you all the way down the mountain. I don't know if anyone ever died or if we ever killed the bear. It just seemed like the motifs were all set up with us in perpetual defense against the bear. I half believe the bear's cave was inspired by the cave of the Abominable Snowman on Rankin Bass' Rudolph The Red-Nosed Reindeer as it is very likely I had seen it in those early years.
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Mama bear and cub near St. Ignatius MT. Both were happily eating berries. In this shot the baby bear could not reach them, but soon discovered mama bear was bending the branch down for him to get the berries at the end. I was quite close, but in my car and I did NOT get out. :-)
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This yearling black bear from last summer had just been kicked out by mom a week or two before this shot. Here he's running full speed to get away from his adoring fans. People were actually being fairly restrained and respectful of him, but the world looks extra scary the first time you're facing it all by yourself.
Alaska is famous for the size and ferocity of its...biting insects (bet you thought I was going to say its bears) in the summer. In fact the mosquitos and marsh flies were not terrible for those of us humans who were variously prepared to discourage them. But in many of my bear photos the presence of these pests - especially the flies - is highly visible. They tend to go for the less furry parts of the face where they can easily access a sip of blood through the skin with little or no reaction from the bears. But once in a while, it became obvious a bear had an itch to scratch. Rolling in the grasses or sand served the purpose admirably. And adorably.
Silver Salmon Creek, Lake Clark National Park & Reserve
The name black bear is not a very accurate name for this species of bear. They can come in many colors such as black, brown, gray, silvery-blue, and cream. Most black bears are, in fact, black but often a black colored bear will have brown cubs and brown colored bears may have black cubs. The black bear’s habitats range from the far northern tundra of Canada and Alaska to the forests of Central America and Mexico
Bears Cave (Romanian: Peștera Urșilor) is located in the Western Carpathian (Apuseni) Mountains, on the outskirts of Chişcău Village, Bihor County, Romania. The cave contains several complete skeletons and numerous bones of extinct cave bears (Ursus spelaeus), a species that disappeared more than 15,000 years ago. It seems that a big boulder slided and blocked the entrance in the cave. Approximately 140 cave bears were caught inside.
The cave was discovered in 1975. Its entrance is situated at an altitude of 482 m (1,581 ft) and the visited portion is about 1 km (3,300 ft) in length.
The green stains on the bear's bones below are algal growth due to high humidity and provided light over the skeleton.