American Black Bear

conditions and will therefore be incapacitated in the conditions that they were meant to live in. For instance, the polar bear evolved from the brown bear into a white colour for survival to be effortlessly concealed in the white snow. What if the polar bears who evolved over a prolonged interval of time were brought to a warmer location? They would evolve into something else. The polar bears would evolve in circumstances they were never meant to adapt to. Also, with sexual selection not fairly…

Eric Sowards English 1001.014 Professor Fetters March 7, 2017 Should Stricter Laws Be Placed on Animal Hunting? It is very common for many people to hunt animals as a “sport” but hunting is not a sport in any sense, it is murder. There should be stricter laws placed on killing animals and selling their parts. In the past, people hunted for survival and for food. However, that is not the case now. People shouldn’t be allowed to hunt because it is inhumane. Hunters are killing endangered species…

taiga as wildfires are common in the taiga. They also have the ability to grow in all types of soils. Black Spruce: The Black Spruce is a tall tree. It can grow up to 25 meters tall. Douglas-Fir: Douglas-firs are very big. They can grow up to 60 feet tall and 25 metres wide. Eastern Red Cedar: The Eastern Red Cedar is a small evergreen that can grow to a height of 10-50 feet. Similar to the black spruce, they produce an oil that works as an insect repellent. Lingonberries:…

The story The Bear That Wasn’t, covers the concept and idea of people never changing due to outside influence. When the bear awoke from hibernation and found himself in the middle of a factory, he was an outsider to the factory workers. Because the factory workers had never seen a bear at the factory and the only bears they had ever seen were either in the circus or at the zoo, they made an assumption that it couldn’t be a bear. Instead, they insisted that the ‘bear’ was actually a silly man…

sent to an island, all alone, with nobody there? Just imagine a cold, freezing island, with no shelter and in the middle you, just you, all alone. I could barely survive a week but never could I survive a Bear attack. Cole Mathews survived both, but not just a week, but a full year! Spirit bear is a book by Ben Mikaelsen where you follow Cole Mathews on his journey living for a year on a remote alaskan island. The main character in the book as you can probably tell is Cole. Cole is a character…

Giant Panda taxonomic classification was being debated since the animal shared both characteristics with bears and raccoons. However, molecular studies suggest that Giant Pandas belong in the bear family. The Giant Panda belongs in the Urisdae, although they have a different early history from the main Ursine stock. The closets relative that the Giant Panda has in the family is the Spectacled Bear of South America. Although, the Red Panda has yet to be classified in which family it belongs, it…

uneducated about animal behaviours will see wild animals as one of the following, “a fearsome predator or benign teddy bear.” On the one hand, violent experiences in zoos are often triggered by children believing that the animals will do them no harm. For example, children that see fluffy panda bears at a zoo may be tempted to enter an enclosure expecting to experience a large teddy bear. Earlier this year, in May, a child fell into the gorilla exhibit inhabited by Harambe, a critically…

At the Colorado Convention Center in downtown Denver lurks a huge blue bear outside of the building. A local artist named Lawrence Argent created the blue bear out of alloy steel and fiberglass. Argent’s sculpture is titled I See What You Mean also known as The Big Blue Bear. The bear stands 40 feet tall and was installed in 2005. Argent was born in England and went to the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, in Australia to train in sculpturing. Currently, Argent is a professor and Head…

Sarajevo Bear by Walter Pavlich What idea(s) does this poem suggest to you about hopelessness and ambitions? As one goes through life and tries to pursue one’s ambition, one sometimes hits upon hopelessness. The poem Sarajevo Bear deals with ambition and hopelessness. The Bosnians’ ambition was so powerful that it overcame the hopelessness of the situation. Ambition may be defined as “a strong desire to do or achieve something typically requiring determination and hard work.”1 The…

more like best friends over time. Till this day Cole stills carves totems. Being on the island really helps Cole with his anger. Cole now knows how to handle with his anger. Cole have many different carved totems. Cole now have a carving of the spirit bear. Ever since the dance of anger, Cole finally figured how to contain anger. After 5 years Cole is the calmest person on earth. Tomorrow is the day Peter visit Cole. That morning Peter showed up angry. He was mad that he couldn’t make babies.…