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ramonmercado said:
There's a claws in the legal code ...

KALISPELL, Mont. (AP) — A Montana man told authorities that he cut off a grizzly bear's claws as a memento after shooting it in self-defense because he was mad that the bear was going to eat him, according to court records.

Bryan Berg, 35, appeared in court on Thursday in U.S. District Court in Missoula after pleading guilty to illegal transport of grizzly bear claws, a misdemeanor, according to the Flathead Beacon. A judge sentenced the man from the northwestern Montana town of Marion to three years of probation and ordered him to pay $5,000 in restitution.

Grizzly bears in northwestern Montana are classified as a threatened species.

Prosecutors said Berg shot the bear in self-defense in the Bob Marshall Wilderness in 2017. He cut off its claws and pushed the carcass over the side of the mountain.

Berg never reported the shooting to law enforcement and he later took the bear claws to Washington state, prosecutors said.

https://news.yahoo.com/man-kills-grizzly-self-defense-191136855.html
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I guess grizzly claws are more dangerous than Santa claws. I'll get my coat ...
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Bear visits town.

Wild bear roams streets of California neighbourhood
A wild bear has been sedated and captured after it was seen roaming in a residential area in Monrovia, California.
The 28.3 stone (180kg) elderly female walked through residential areas close to Angeles National Forest.
A mild California winter could be a possible reason for the sighting, as warmer weather causes bears to leave their dens in search of food.
  • 22 Feb 2020. Vid at link.

https://www.bbc.com/news/av/world-u...ear-roams-streets-of-california-neighbourhood
 
ramonmercado said:
Bear visits town.

Wild bear roams streets of California neighbourhood
A wild bear has been sedated and captured after it was seen roaming in a residential area in Monrovia, California.
The 28.3 stone (180kg) elderly female walked through residential areas close to Angeles National Forest.
A mild California winter could be a possible reason for the sighting, as warmer weather causes bears to leave their dens in search of food.
  • 22 Feb 2020. Vid at link.

https://www.bbc.com/news/av/world-u...ear-roams-streets-of-california-neighbourhood
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Maybe she was looking for a toilet.
 
Bold Bear Returns.

A rogue brown bear that terrorised livestock and broke into homes in northern Italy last year has awoken from hibernation with a large appetite, raiding bee hives, attacking donkeys and setting hunters on its trail.

The bear, nicknamed Papillon after the 1973 Steve McQueen prison-break film, was captured last year in the Alpine province of Trento after killing 13 animals including sheep, donkeys and cows, only to escape by scaling a 4m (13ft) electric fence.

Maurizio Fugatti, the local governor, angered animal rights activists last year by granting officials permission to shoot Papillon if it threatened humans, only for the bear to vanish with the onset of winter.

Its reign of terror has, however, resumed after it awoke from hibernation, with raids on bee hives, the smashing of a gate to enter a meadow, and a face-to-face meeting with startled locals in the small village of Molina di Fiemme.


https://www.thetimes.co.uk/past-six...llage-returns-with-roaring-appetite-pvppvcbjd
 
ramonmercado said:
Bold Bear Returns.

A rogue brown bear that terrorised livestock and broke into homes in northern Italy last year has awoken from hibernation with a large appetite, raiding bee hives, attacking donkeys and setting hunters on its trail.

The bear, nicknamed Papillon after the 1973 Steve McQueen prison-break film, was captured last year in the Alpine province of Trento after killing 13 animals including sheep, donkeys and cows, only to escape by scaling a 4m (13ft) electric fence.

Maurizio Fugatti, the local governor, angered animal rights activists last year by granting officials permission to shoot Papillon if it threatened humans, only for the bear to vanish with the onset of winter.

Its reign of terror has, however, resumed after it awoke from hibernation, with raids on bee hives, the smashing of a gate to enter a meadow, and a face-to-face meeting with startled locals in the small village of Molina di Fiemme.


https://www.thetimes.co.uk/past-six...llage-returns-with-roaring-appetite-pvppvcbjd
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Sadly Papillon has been recaptured.

April 30 (UPI) -- A bear that escaped from a nature park in Italy has been captured 10 months later and officials are trying to find the animal a new permanent home.

The bear, known officially as M49 and nicknamed Papillon after escaping from a Trento Province nature park in July 2019, was captured in a pipe trap Tuesday night.

https://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2020/04/30/Escaped-bear-captured-after-10-months-on-the-loose-in-Italy/7521588267045/
 
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Couldn't find a Grizzly thread so:

Yellowstone's star Grizzly '399' back with 4 cubs

A few weeks ago, a nature photographer who lives near Yellowstone national park sent a four-word text message to Dr Jane Goodall, the British primatologist.

“Miraculously, she still lives!”

The photographer, Thomas Mangelsen, was referring to a grizzly bear known as “399”, probably the most famous wild bruin in the world. At 24, not only is she one of the oldest grizzlies living outside a zoo, she has also continued having cubs to a venerable age, becoming a poster child for the recovery of bears in the greater Yellowstone ecosystem.

Mangelsen has been chronicling the life and times of 399 for nearly 15 years. Goodall counts herself among the bear’s most ardent admirers, and, holed up in England, was eagerly awaiting word on whether 399 had survived the long winter. Mangelsen said she was ecstatic.

Born in 1996, 399 has demonstrated the importance of a healthy female bear to an overall population. At least 22 bears are descended from her, both cubs and cubs of cubs (in human terms, grandchildren). It’s possible she could become a great grandmother – a senior citizen who is still having offspring of her own.

Yet researchers note that it’s not easy being a young grizzly, even with a keen parent like 399. About half of those in 399’s bloodline have died. One was shot by a big-game hunter, another was killed for preying upon cattle, and a few have been struck by cars. The drama has played out in front of legions of human onlookers who, in turn, have circulated details on social media as if 399 were the star of a soap opera.

The oldest grizzly in the Yellowstone region documented with cubs was 27. Mangelsen had a hunch that 399 would emerge this year with more of her own. During the summer of 2019 she was seen in the company of a regular suitor, a huge 600lb male nicknamed Bruno who is believed to have sired some of 399’s earlier infants. Mangelsen and other observers were not disappointed.

“Four-cub litters are rare,” said Frank van Manen, a senior research biologist who oversees the Yellowstone region’s Grizzly Bear Study Team. “We have documented females producing cubs well into their early- to mid- 20s, but a litter of four at that age is definitely unique.”
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Grizzly 399 stands to get a better look at the growing crowd of bear watchers while her four cubs play.
 
Shes standing; does that mean shes seen the photographer?

a bear with cubs is dangerous; imagine how fierce one with four might be.
 
Kondoru said:
Shes standing; does that mean shes seen the photographer?

a bear with cubs is dangerous; imagine how fierce one with four might be.
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She would be unstoppable if she thought her cubs were in any danger. But, standing like that just means she looking for something interesting. She may have smelled something or just wants to know what's around her at the moment.

Myth #3: If a Bear is standing on its hind legs, then it is getting ready to charge you….run!!!

This myth couldn’t be more false. Bears can see, hear, and smell better standing up than they can when they are down on all four legs. So when they are standing up they are just trying to see what is in front of them.

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https://yellowstonebearworld.com/my...gs-then-it-is-getting-ready-to-charge-you-run
 
I don't recall incidents where wild animals broke into a zoo. It makes some sense if you consider ...

To you a zoo is a park for recreational and educational browsing.
To a brown bear a zoo is a delicatessen stocked with exotic goodies ...

Brown bear breaks into Alaska Zoo, kills alpaca named Caesar

A longtime Alaska Zoo resident alpaca named Caesar was killed Saturday night or Sunday morning by a wild brown bear that broke into the alpaca’s enclosure.

The bear tunneled under the zoo’s perimeter fence and broke through the cedar split rail fence around the enclosure before killing Caesar, according to the zoo’s executive director, Pat Lampi.

Another alpaca — Fuzzy Charlie — was found unhurt, though wide-eyed and skittish.

Alaska Department of Fish and Game personnel killed the almost 600-pound male bear Monday night on a stakeout with Alaska Wildlife Troopers near some dumpsters just outside the zoo fence, state officials say. ...
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SOURCE: https://www.adn.com/alaska-news/anc...ks-into-alaska-zoo-kills-alpaca-named-caesar/
 
I hate that they killed the bear. In the article they go on to talk about the alpaca as spitting on people etc and saying that's what alpaca do. Well guess what, that's what bears do when we encroach upon them. There is a lot of competition out there for the bears as well as a hierarchy they must adhere to or die. And so, of course, they will go for whatever they might considered an easy meal.

Why the hell is there a zoo there anyway?

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I don't think this was coincidence. I think there was some kind of longstanding feud between Caesar and Mr Bear. Is it possible this wasn't a zoo, but a lair for a villainous alpaca?
 
Comfortably Numb said:
This is one of my favourite videos from recent times - chilled bear.

'Lovely view from here, isn't it...'.

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Mine too. I think there's more to it than just the bear wandering up there and taking a seat. I think one of the people in the video was a man who used to raise orphan cubs and teach them all they needed to know to go back into the wild. Fishing, pine nuts, berries, overturning rocks for moths...they would leave on their own around 18 months old, give or take a month or two. This was one of his bears.
 
michael59 said:
think one of the people in the video was a man who used to raise orphan cubs...
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Now that makes infinitely more sense!

Goodness sakes, how could I almost have forgotten about our own Scottish bear legend - Hercules!

What an extraordinary, wonderful story and recall a film documentary being made.

Had a quick look and... it's available online!

This is an absolute must see and will be child friendly as well. :)

 
Recent upload; nature captured in extraordinary circumstances...

23 September, Yellowstone National Park

 
That poor wolf is starving. :(

https://www.boredpanda.com/bear-fri...oogle&utm_medium=organic&utm_campaign=organic

“It’s very unusual to see a bear and a wolf getting on like this” says Finnish photographer Lassi Rautiainen, 56, who took these surprising photos. The female grey wolf and male brown were spotted every night for ten days straight, spending several hours together between 8pm and 4am. They would even share food with each other.

“No-one can know exactly why or how the young wolf and bear became friends,” Lassi told the Daily Mail. “I think that perhaps they were both alone and they were young and a bit unsure of how to survive alone…It is nice to share rare events in the wild that you would never expect to see.”
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Blubber Bear.

The winner of this year’s Fat Bear Week in Alaska has been crowned.

Bear number 747 won the award for fattest bear at Katmai National Park and Preserve after a week of competitive online voting.

The bear thanked the salmon at Brooks River for helping him win the accolade, along with “all the little bears he pushed out of the way to gain access to the best fishing spot of them all”.

In a statement, the park said: “This year he (747) really packed on the pounds, looking like he was fat enough to hibernate in July and yet continuing to eat until his belly seemed to drag along the ground by late September.”

https://www.irishexaminer.com/world/arid-40061369.html
 
One of those bears will get fed up of the treadmill and attack the researchers.

If you’ve ever worried a bear might be after your picnic basket, you may want to take the hardest, hilliest trail to your destination.

That’s the take-home message of a new study, in which researchers got nine bears to run on treadmills—a first for science—and found that they, like their laziest human counterparts, prefer flat paths to save energy. The study, scientists say, may help explain why bears are often found around popular hiking trails.

Grizzly bears (Ursus arctos horribilis) need to stock up on energy before they slip into winter hibernation. As opportunistic omnivores, they eat just about anything—berries, roots, grass, insects, and meat—to put on weight. That requires a lot of foraging, but what paths they pick while looking for food was a mystery. “This study does for bears what Fitbit and other fitness trackers have done for people,” says Scott Nielsen, a conservation biologist at the University of Alberta, Edmonton, who was not involved in the study.

To find out how grizzly bears spend their energy while searching for food, researchers at Washington State University’s Bear Research, Education, and Conservation Center placed a treadmill in a custommade, sealed enclosure, built with steel frames and polycarbonate sheets to make them air-tight. Then, they trained nine captive bears to walk and run on the treadmill at various slopes, both uphill and downhill. ...

https://www.sciencemag.org/news/202...readmills-and-find-out-why-they-hiking-trails
 
If you read the sidebar in the latest FT about the six Syrian brown bears released by Iraqi animal rights activists from being kept in cages in people's homes, and wondered what it would look to like to see all the activists running away from some irate ursines, there's a photo at this link:
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Only one bear pictured, but you get the idea. Their hearts were in the right place, but maybe a more careful release was necessary?
 
Evil Prince slays bear.

Environmental groups have accused a prince from Liechtenstein’s royal family of shooting and killing the largest bear in Romania, in contravention of a ban on the trophy hunting of large carnivores.

The Romanian NGO Agent Green and the Austrian NGO VGT alleged in a statement that the bear, who was called Arthur, was shot in March in a protected area of the Carpathian Mountains by Prince Emanuel von und zu Liechtenstein. According to the NGOs, the prince, who is a resident of Riegersburg in Austria, had been given special approval by the Romanian environment ministry to shoot a female bear that had been causing damage to farms in Ojdula.

“But in reality, the prince did not kill the problem bear, but a male that lived deep in the woods and had never come close to localities,” the NGOs claim. “The bear named Arthur has been observed for many years by the Agent Green ranger in the area and was known as a wild specimen not accustomed to the man’s presence and the food sources he offered.” ...

https://www.theguardian.com/environ...arthur-romania-largest-bear-age-of-extinction
 
I suspect this is a more complex story than that.

(In which everyone has sinister names)

Romania is known for its bears, isnt it? (Because of a complex past)
 
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