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and is unspoiled an home to grizzly bears, wolves and cougars. The forest is the scene of one of nature's most impressive migrations;

The salmon run draws carnivores such as bears and wolves to the river bank, where they gorge on the migrating fish.

The bears who feast on the spawning salmon don't eat on the river oe they drag the carcasses far into the forest.

from mice to brown bears, shake their bodies when wet oe the frequency being directly related to their size.

A bear, for instance, needs to shake from side-to-side four times per second. The loose skin on its large frame whips around its body with enough force to shed the water quite easily.

Recently, researchers from Oakland University in Michigan added black bears to the list of the numerically skilled.

along with unstudied primate species and subspecies of bears, some people believe the legends could describe distant relations.

Youd shoot a bear that was attacking your child. But many of these 10 threaten more human livelihood than human life.

was surprised. oeive seen car versus bear, car versus deer, car versus cat, but this is the first time Ive seen car versus turkey,

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One tired bear...To her, life was a never-ending stream of irrational obsessions...All he wanted was to make an impact.

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Gummy bears were abandoned because they stuck to the monkeys teeth. They also drink a fruit-flavored punch with the fructose equivalent of about a can of soda a day.

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We have developed trunks that feature ungulates, bears, owls, creepy-crawlies, water, and tracks. Each of the trunks includes between 15#20 books on the subject,(both fiction and non-fiction;

and wildlife resources, such as grizzly hides, elk antlers, deer hooves, a number of rubber tracks, skulls, and more.

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When it comes to animals a variety of characteristics can be wrapped up in a common name including where an animal lives (mountain goat) what an animal eats (anteater) the color of an animal (brown bear) or more broadly

and is not a bear. They actually look and act more like raccoons. They also occupy a family all to their own Ailuridae

The poles are also home to magnificent animals like polar bears and penguinswhich are sensitive to environmental changes.

Many of these trees bear fruits or nuts that humans also eat. Hunted forests held seedling species that relied on wind to disperse their seeds.

Cave lions Sabre-toothed cats cave bears giant deer woolly rhinoceroses and woolly mammoths were prevailing species of the Quaternary period.

Thriving populations of wolves deer lynx beaver eagles boar elk bears and other animals have been documented in the dense woodlands that now surround the silent plant.

Additionally as the single biggest investor in Africa China bears special responsibility to that continent's people and wildlife.

when chased away by larger animals like bears or wolves Elbroch said. Although condors don't chase the cats away apparently their presence is irritating enough to drive away the cats.

</p><p>The new study published today (May 1) in the journal PLOS ONE may explain how the carcasses of several carnivore species including saber-toothed cats and bear dogs wound up in an underground cavern

Scavengers including bears and vultures ate most of the bodies with maggots and blowflies helping to reduce the elk herd to an eerie scattered sea of skeletons in the desert.

#Daring to Trap Grizzlies, Researchers Tackle Population Puzzle It takes a trained team a healthy dose of caution

and about an hour of work to restrain a grizzly bear and get the samples needed for research on the iconic western species. This research that could help scientists solve a puzzling trend in the bear's population numbers.

Here's how it works: Researchers scout out an area where grizzlies are known to wander.

There scientists leave roadkill bait in a metal box-trap masked so the bears can't detect it.

Once the trap catches a grizzly scientists use a sedative to immobilize the animal. Then they have only an hour to take blood

and hair samples do some measurements and fit a radio collar on the animal before it wakes up.

Despite the inherent danger the research is a critical means of gleaning information about the local grizzly population's health.

Obviously there's always a risk of something happening that we haven't seen before so vigilance is incredibly important here. 7 Iconic American Animals Researchers have conducted grizzly bear monitoring in various forms since 1973.

At that time Yellowstone was completing the closures of garbage dumps that had attracted bears. Because of these dumps the grizzlies started roaming for food in areas too close to the park's tourists leading to policies of euthanization and removal.

Surveys showed a decline in the grizzly population until the early 1980s. Then between 1983 and the early 2000s the overall population increased by somewhere between 4 percent and 7 percent a year.

Grizzlies are slow reproducers; they have two cubs once every three years and only become fertile at age four or five.)

That growth has leveled off however in the past decade. Current growth is estimated to be only as high as 2 percent a year.

Figuring out why is one of the reasons grizzly scientists are trapping and studying the bears.

Photos: Trapping Grizzly bears We estimate 600 to 700 bears in this population. Is it possible that we now have reached a density where the population is being affected by

what we call density dependent effect? van Manen said naming one question the scientists are asking.

In the specific case of the grizzlies he added this would mean that the older males are killing the young cubs.

One of the explanations focuses on whitebark pine an important food as grizzlies bulk up for hibernation in the fall.

Grizzlies eat caches of whitebark pine seeds embedded in the tree. Van Manen's team completed surveys of the whitebark pine population finding a marked decrease (74 percent) in the number of trees in the past few years.

It's unclear how greatly this is affecting the grizzly bears though. In response to lost pine trees the animals could switch to eating more meat

and fat content of grizzlies over time taken from the samples obtained when the scientists trap the grizzlies.

While van Manen declined to give specifics about the results until they are published he said there are no major indications that body fat as a percentage of bear weight is declining This could with further study suggest that the food source isn't the explanation.

Other participants in the ongoing bear research study include the U s. Forest Service the U s. Fish and Wildlife Service the Wind River tribe and the wildlife agencies for Idaho Montana Wyoming.

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#Dwarf Lemurs Hibernate Like Bears The western fat-tailed dwarf lemur was the only primate thought to be a hibernator.

The newly released images and videos from the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) show the famously endangered bears as well as some of their neighbors red pandas leopard cats

because there are thought to be just 1600 of the lumbering black-and-white bears left in China.

The cameras also captured other threatened species including tree-loving Asiatic black bears which are hunted for their skins paws

or bears or apes is the original wild child often having little or no language ability or manners.

For instance one spot lost eggs to bears so not as many jays got to sample the carbachol.

Their only other predators are bears and wolves. Fortunately moose continue to be abundant despite fairly intense hunting pressures in parts of its range.

and the beloved bears'home in the mountains of China is threatened increasingly by climate change and human activity.

#Grizzlies Should Stay on Endangered Species List, Scientists Say Yellowstone national park grizzly bears could be removed from the Endangered Species list after a new federal report revealed that the bears are threatened not by the loss of one of their main foods whitebark pine nuts.

But outside scientists are criticizing the report calling it incomplete politically motivated and flawed. It does not take into account the situation the realities of the conditions on the ground in whitebark pine forests said Jesse Logan the retired head of the U s. Forest Service's bark beetle research unit.

Bear battle The fight over the delisting of the Yellowstone grizzly population is a years-long saga.

The bears were removed temporarily from the Endangered Species list in 2007 after the U s. Fish

In 2009 a federal district court in Montana overturned the delisting bumping the grizzlies back to protected status. The judge cited concerns that the USFWS had failed to consider the decline in whitebark pine in its decision.

Trapping Yellowstone's Grizzlies In recent years the growth of Yellowstone's grizzly population has slowed

because bears are crowded so in their habitat that older bears are killing cubs or if the slow down is related to food scarcity.

Â Bears rely on four major food sources in the Yellowstone region said David Mattson a visiting senior research scientist

and lecturer at Yale university who studied the grizzlies for more than a decade as a U s. Geological Survey scientist.

One is calorie-rich whitebark pine nuts. Yellowstone bears also eat cutthroat trout meat from elk

and bison and a fatty high-elevation insect called the army cutworm moth. Pine nuts in particular are linked to birth

When female bears in particular eat more pine seeds they give birth to more cubs and they die at a lesser rate Mattson said.

The new recommendations to delist come to the USFWS from the Yellowstone Ecosystem Subcommittee of the Interagency Grizzly bear Committee.

According to a new federal report presented to the committee this week bear health is linked not to the availability of whitebark pine nuts.

The report downplays a published decline in grizzly bear fat composition dating to about 2006

When the agency first delisted the grizzly bear from the Endangered Species list in 2007 it estimated that 16 percent of the whitebark pine in the habitat had been affected by beetles.

The central habitat of the grizzlies is among the hardest-hit in the beetle epidemic he said.

Habitat trouble Mattson and Logan further criticized the bear report for downplaying the links between pine nuts and grizzly health.

Evidence suggests that bears especially females are eating more meat to compensate for the loss of whitebark pine nuts.

or older bears than are cubs and yearlings snuffling for pine nuts. And meat-eating puts adult bears into closer contact with human hunters and ranchers should they go after livestock. 8 Ways Global Warming is Already Changing the World The result has been an increase both in total number

of bear deaths and in the proportion of bears killed by humans Mattson said. Meanwhile cutthroat trout are in decline because of predation by a nonnative fish.

There is not a single positive trend afoot in Yellowstone's grizzly bear habitat Mattson said. Compounding the problem Mattson said is the fact that many of the studies in the federal report recommending delisting have not undergone review by outside scientists

or have not been published in scientific journals a crucial step in validating scientific research. What's next for grizzlies Keeping the grizzly bear on the endangered species list would provide one ray of hope in a bad situation Mattson said:

It would keep states from opening up hunting season on the bear. One of the first things the states are going to do is in fact institute a sports hunt Mattson said.

They've said so. Delisting grizzlies would also allow states more freely to kill bears that became a nuisance to livestock a real concern in a time

when bears and ranchers are clashing more frequently. Federal protection makes it more likely that bears can continue to spread out into areas we know are suitable for bears Mattson said.

A wider range could bring the Yellowstone population in contact with other grizzly populations making all of the populations less vulnerable in the long haul.

The USFWS is mandated not to follow the committee recommendations but it is likely to do so said Kristin Carden an attorney with Earthjustice an environmental advocacy group.

The next step in the process is for the agency to draft a delisting plan with input from the Department of the interior and the Department of justice.

Next the plan would be open to public comment. Review of the studies used in the report

Whatever happens Yellowstone grizzlies face extraordinary challenges as climate change drives the loss of habitat and food sources.

Wolves lions and bears are known to attack livestock and even pets. On rare occasions they have killed humans.

and the black bears of New jersey and elsewhere were restored instantly to their paleo diet. Slow starvation is no happier a way for a bear to die than by a hunter's bullet or arrow.

And in the process of starving animals cut off from their human feed are likely to become increasingly desperate and brazen.

In May a woman in Altadena Calif. a suburb of Los angeles near Pasadena entered her kitchen to find a bear already there munching on peaches she had left on the counter.

When she screamed the bear reluctantly left the kitchen ambling outside and flopping on the pool deck for a postprandial snooze.

instead by raising animals said Hendrik Bruins a landscape archaeologist at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev.

But new research suggests people in this area the Negev highlands practiced agriculture as long ago as 5000 B c. Bruins told Livescience.

A great surprise Bruins'findings come from radiocarbon dating of bones and organic materials in various soil layers in an ancient field in southern Israel.

A Glimpse of the Past I found a wonderful radiocarbon sequence of ages Bruins said. And it was for me a great surprise.

and other books of the Bible Bruins said. The site where Bruins conducted his research south of Beersheba is likely to the south

and east of where historians place the Israelites during this time period he said. But it could possibly have been home to tribes associated with the Amalekites a group living in the area at the time that was hostile to the Israelites Bruins said.

The third layer corresponds to the late Byzantine and early Islamic period when people were known to practice agriculture in this area he added.

Bruins is currently submitting his research to a peer-reviewed scientific journal it hasn't yet been published.

when it comes to agriculture Bruins said. There is widespread evidence of ancient floodwater farming in the southern Levant in the form of drystone walls across

and run a thriving trade route through the area before the arrival of the Romans who eventually displaced the Nabataeans Bruins said.

Â While polar bears represent a sad disclaimer for a warming Arctic the recent count of almost 1000 wild yaks offers hope for the persistence of free-roaming large animals at the virtual limits of high-altitude wildlife.

According to the Bible swarms of locusts were the eighth plague sent into ancient Egypt as a punishment for suppressing the Jews said Hendrik Bruins a researcher who studies the archaeology and environmental aspects of desert peoples at Israel's Ben-Gurion

This current swarm fits very well with the seasonal timing of the exodus in the bible Bruins said.

This we cannot say Bruins told Livescience. Because there have been so many plagues throughout history not every locust plague can be classified in that way he said laughing.

The locust is the only kosher insect meaning it is acceptable to eat under Jewish law Bruins said.

what the ancestor of mice elephants lions tigers bears whales bats and humans once looked like researchers say.

#Melting Sea Ice Keeps Hungry Polar bears On land Polar bears the iconic victims of climate change are shifting their migration patterns because of changes in sea ice.

The bears are arriving on land earlier and departing later a new study found and it's threatening their access to food.

A team of researchers studied the migration patterns of polar bears (Ursus maritimus) in Hudson bay Canada using satellite-tracking data collected between 1991 and1997 and 2004 and 2009.

when the bears migrated onto or off of land. The findings are detailed today (March 19) in the Journal of Animal Ecology.

when polar bears move on and off the ice is an important aspect of monitoring the risks to the population associated with climate change study leader Seth Cherry a graduate student in ecology at the University of Alberta Canada told Livescience in an email.

Polar bears hunt their main food source seals primarily while on sea ice. Changes in the ice are driving the bears to spend more time on land where they have to go longer without eating

and rely on fat reserves to tide them over. Climate-induced changes that cause sea ice to melt earlier form later

or both likely affect the overall health of polar bears in the area Cherry said. 10 Odd Facts About Arctic Sea Ice Cherry

and colleagues fitted 109 female polar bears with tracking collars (males can't wear collars because their necks are wider than their heads).

Putting a tracking collar on a polar bear is quite a feat. The researchers located the bears from a helicopter

and flew in close to dart the bears. With the animals immobilized the researchers attached the collars

which were equipped with GPS transmitters that beamed their location. The scientists also took measurements in the form of blood samples and fat biopsies

which told them about the bears'diet and nutrition. When we look at the migration patterns of the collared bears it appears as though bears in recent years are arriving on shore earlier in the summer

and leaving later in the autumn Cherry said. These are precisely the kind of changes one would expect to see as a result of a warming climate.

The findings suggest that it's not only the distribution of sea ice that affects the bears'migration but how quickly that ice melts or forms.

When the ice melts in Hudson bay the bears spend longer on land where they are essentially fasting.

because when the other bears resume hunting in late November or early December these females stay in dens on land to give birth to cubs and nurse them.

and a plant that has smaller fruit is better able to fill each tomato with nutrients than a plant that bears a larger fruit Klee said.

Although many vertebrates became extinct during this period mammals that are familiar to us today including apes cattle deer rabbits kangaroos wallabies bears

and giant bears died out. Â Scientists have debated for years over the cause of the extinction with both of the major hypotheses human overhunting

but there are many ways that listening to plants already bears fruit. When the bubble bursts Scientists first recognized in the 1960s that listening to leaves revealed the health of plants.

This is the unintended consequence of a longstanding federal policy symbolized by Smokey Bear to stamp out forest fires.

Similarly we have used carbon isotopes in fossil soils to determine the fraction of woody cover sites that bear hominin fossils a problem that has implications for the history of our species

Humans bears badgers and other animals have long been raiding the winter stores of their winged friends to harvest honey.

Animals have an uncanny ability to form friendships outside their own species. Polar bears and dogs elephants and sheep even tigers and black bears have found kinship.

The National Trust hopes the deer will rejoin his own herd if it wanders through the area the BBC reports.

#Wolves in Yellowstone Help Grizzly bears Fatten up The reintroduction of wolves into Yellowstone national park has unexpected an upside:

It's helping to fatten up the bears new research suggests. The wolves have kept the park's population of elks (prey for wolves) in check

As a result the bears have more tasty berries to eat finds a study published today (July 29) in the Journal of Animal Ecology.

The Wonders of Yellowstone national park The reintroduction seemed to have a beneficial effect on bears. Now Beschta and colleagues have found the amount of fruit in grizzly bear scat doubled in August in recent years

which means the bears were eating more of it. The grizzlies love to graze on the park's many wild berry species such as serviceberry chokecherry buffaloberry twinberry and huckleberry.

Wild fruit is typically an important part of grizzly bear diet especially in late summer when they are trying to gain weight as rapidly as possible before winter hibernation said study co-author William Ripple a forest ecosystems researcher at Oregon State university in a statement.

Berries are one part of a diverse food source that aids bear survival and reproduction and at certain times of the year can be more than half their diet in many places in North america.

Because bears have made up for the decline in berries by eating more elk in the last 50 years the berry bounty may also help offset the decline in elk.

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#World's Largest Owl Exposes Health of Russia's Forests The world's largest owl requires equally huge trees a finding that reveals that this salmon-devouring predator could be a key sign of the health of some of the last great forests of Russia

and trout species that spawn in the rivers there some of the 12 other owl species found in Primorye and mammals such as the endangered Siberian tiger Asiatic black bear and wild boar.

Bears deer foxes bald eagles raccoons and more may be seen amidst the wildflowers and lush grasses. The most popular meadows which have boardwalks

#Facts About Wolverines Wolverines look something like a mixture of a dog a skunk and a bear with short legs long hair and elongated snouts.

Wolverines are called also skunk bear quickhatch (of Native american origin) carcajou (French for wolverine) glutton and stink-bear.

The grizzly bear turned quickly and I stopped. Her hair shone silver in the sun as she turned back to her cub.

Like bears the mother whales go hungry for months while still needing to produce high-calorie milk for their babies.

Warning growls are for more than the likes of dogs and bears. The tiny seahorse growls in response to stress as well.

and all kinds of animals mountain lions bears and the like roam the darkness of our neighborhood.

and killing of threatened and endangered species such as wolverines lynx and grizzly bears as well as black bears deer elk moose mountain lions eagles and yes landowners'own dogs and livestock the very animals

Bear masks: Humans dressed as polar bears played roles in garnering the Ig Nobel's Arctic Science Prize.

Due to interactions between Svalbard reindeer (Rangifer tarandus platyrhynchus) and polar bears (Ursus maritimus) during field work on Edgeã¸ya Svalbard we measured response distances for reindeer from a stalking polar bear and improvised five

approaches from a person disguised as a polar bear for comparison with human encounters the team wrote in 2012 in their study published in the journal Arctic Antarctica and Alpine Research.

Result? The flight response and escape suggests a predator-prey relationship between the two beasts the researchers said.

I attended a grizzly bear conference at a ranch just outside of Yellowstone national park. And the first and only other time I visited the state was 35 years ago when

At that 2004 conference I learned that global warming is making it harder to keep a key item in the grizzly bear pantry in stock.

The bears like to feast on high-protein seeds from whitebark pine cones in the fall to fatten up before hibernation time

The fate of the Yellowstone region's grizzlies meanwhile has teetered back and forth in recent years. In 2007 the FWS concluded that they had recovered sufficiently

Regardless the FWS is again considering delisting the roughly 700 bears in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem contending they are supplementing their diet with more meat.

Our zoo is small enough that keepers get to work with a wide range of animals from bison and mountain lions to tropical birds Andean bears and Roosevelt elk.

and small mammals and provided abundant food resources for grizzly bears wolves and humans. More than any other species the buffalo American bison or iiniiwa in Blackfoot linked native people to the land provided food