The Great Bear

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…

Ursus Maritimus also known as Polar Bears are quite the compelling, playful, and bold creatures that tend to go unnoticed by humanity. According to Ice Stories, there is an estimated population of 20,000 - 25,000 polar bears since the beginning of the twenty-first century. Polar bears have hollow and transparent fur that gets its white color from light reflection but under all that fur they have black skin. Their average weight is from 660 pounds to 1,300 pounds, depending on its gender. They…

The Grizzly Bear Vincent Bauer Ecology March 3, 2017 Mr. Kopanke The Grizzly Bear, also known as the North American brown bear, or even more rarely as the Silvertip Bear is one of the largest land animals on the planet. It stands about 1.2 meters (4 feet) tall to the shoulder, and 1.8-2.4 meters (6-8 feet) long. When standing, it can stand up to 3.6 meters (12 feet) high. They weigh anywhere from 136 to 362 kilograms (300-800 pounds) , but the largest grizzly bear ever shot by a hunter…

Animal Ethics Asiatic Black Bear The Asiatic Black Bear (Ursus tibetanus) also known as the moon bear is a medium to large sized species of bear that inhabits forests in South and Central Asia, Russia, and Japan. Populations of wild Asiatic Black Bear have been dropping rapidly throughout Asia and Japan. The Asiatic Black Bear is listed by the International Union for Conservation of Nature as a red list species which is endangered and could become extinct in the future. The rapid decline in…

GRIZZLY BEAR Ursus arctos horribilis Habitat- Grizzly bears are found in many different habitats, from dense forests to subalpine meadows, open plains and arctic tundra. In North America, grizzly bears are found in western Canada, Alaska, Wyoming, Montana, Idaho and a potentially a small population in Washington. Historically, they could be found from Alaska to Mexico and from California to Ohio. The grizzly bear was once common on the Great Plains. However, human encroachment…

result of the pollutants that get to the Artic Sea. Polar bears obtain all of these pollutants through the food web.The population of the polar bear is in danger and it continues to decline every year. If the climate change continues to impact negatively the polar bear and if the human beings do not do anything to improve the environment of the polar bear, in a…

Polar Bear Classification and Evolution The Polar Bear is a large species of bear that is found inhabiting the ice fields in the Arctic Ocean. It is the biggest species of bear in the world (with the exception of the Kodiak Brown Bears found in Alaska which can reach similar sizes) with males often weighing-in at around 600kg. Thought to be closely related to the Brown Bear, the Polar Bears' name actually means "Sea Bear" as they are known to not just spend a great deal of time close to the…

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…