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Killer bears, and the humans who track them down
Freelance journalist Jessica Grose has a fascinating "long read" in Slate this week (and I'm not kidding about the long part, 8,000 words!) about Bear True Crimes: wild bears in and around Yellowstone...
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Meanwhile, some bears are fishing salmon out of a river in Alaska
#Bearcam may just be the best thing ever. Explore.org has two hi-def webcams turned on in Alaska's Brooks River in Katmai National Park. More than a hundred Brown Bears gather along a mile long...
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3 Facts about bears and lady business
Good news for ladies who like the woods—your period is (probably) not something that attracts (most) bears. There are not a lot of studies addressing this particular topic, but a National Park Service...
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Oh nothing, just rare video of a polar bear mom nursing her cubs
Chris Thonis, writing to Boing Boing on behalf of explore.org, sends along this video of a mother polar bear in Churchill, Manitoba nursing her two cubs. Chris explains: This is a behavior rarely...
View ArticleDon't Feed The Bears: we'll end up having to kill them
Photo: FHgitarre (cc) Island closed on account of bears. That was the message I got earlier this summer, when my husband and I set off for our annual trip to Lake Superior’s Apostle Islands. This...
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Koala baby won't let go of mom while she undergoes surgery. Both survived...
A heart-melting story and series of photographs out of the Australia Zoo Wildlife Hospital. A 6-month-old koala joey named Phantom keeps clinging to his mother Lizzy while veterinary surgeons operate...
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Colorado bear with munchies breaks into pie shop, eats all pies but one
[caption id="attachment_406650" align="alignnone" width="768"] The bear was kind of a slob. Photo: Colorado Cherry Company[/caption] “Outside the store there is a trail of sugar. And a clump of...
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Bear Belly Flop over Alaska waterfall
Captured at Katmai National Park in Alaska. (more…)
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Huge bear eats bag of dog food and naps on someone's lawn
This black bear ate a 20-pound bag of dog food out of a garage in Seminole County, Florida and fell into a food coma right on the homeowner's lawn. (more…)
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Japanese show: bear attacks person in a plastic cube
https://youtu.be/phE-lY3aeOY UPDATE: NOT A LEMUR NOT A PANTHER NOT A GAME SHOW BUT IT MIGHT BE A BEAR According to Boing Boing reader Malcom Bell: "ItteQ is a travel show and this is a one-off. The...
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Appalling bear attack on man
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eIQKSykxiMc I can barely watch, but anyone who has seen "Grizzly Man" will understand that bears are wild animals and should not be trifled with.
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Alaska troopers want to know why idiot in bear suit is harassing grizzlies
Why would someone wear a realistic bear costume and use it bother a mother grizzly and her two cubs trying to eat salmon in an Alaska river? First of all, he's lucky the mother bear didn't eviscerate...
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Man fights off bear attack near Yosemite, then drives himself to hospital
[caption id="attachment_403010" align="alignnone" width="800"] California Black Bear (not the actual bear that attacked the man in this story)[/caption] A 67-year-old California man fought off a bear...
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Photo of bear poking head through cat door
Doug Harder who resides near Schweitzer Mountain, Idaho photographed this handsome bear attempting to come into his condo via the cat door last week. (more…)
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Look at the size of this grizzly bear paw
From West Coast Native News: "This is how big a grizzly bears paw is – by the way, the bear is sedated and about to be tagged." Lauren Shutt emailed to let me know that the above information is...
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Possibly drunk or high bear tries to scratch back on tree, misses repeatedly,...
We'll have whatever this bear's having. Watch the video below. “Best trail camera video ever,” says John Kitchin, who researches and photographs bears. We agree. (more…)
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That nightmarish bipedal bear is back, and now we know why
https://youtu.be/kowgYcjRTmE I didn't like it when Snoopy suddenly changed from a cute quadruped to an ugly biped and I didn't like it when I saw this video of a bear walking upright like a human in a...
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Just a giant bear and his human friend, getting snuggly
https://youtu.be/IZeGW61-zQg Folks, don't try this with the gigantic bear you have at home. (more…)
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Man loves bear, and bear loves man right back. For now.
Медведь играет с человеком ("Bear Plays with a Man"). Indeed. (YouTube)
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Grizzly unseats and kills Montana mountain biker
Near Glacier National Park, a surprised grizzly bear attacked three mountain bikers. Two were able to escape, but the third, Brad Treat, was killed. Via Alaska Dispatch News: Treat died Wednesday...
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