For Those Who Like Bears ;-)))

[+ Avalon]

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[Deadlift1]

best looking bear ive ever seen.

[+ Archer]

That's a hot bear, but the earrings are just too much.

[MaleFun]

What a hunk!

[samhexum]

I'll bet this bear doesn't know what to nibble on first:

Edited June 17, 2019 by samhexum

[+ Avalon]

I'll bet this bear doesn't know what to nibble on first:

How can someone look like that an eat pizza?

[samhexum]

How can someone look like that an eat pizza?

 

He works out like hell and/or throws it all up after eating. Besides, maybe the bear had most of the slices.

[jjkrkwood]

How can someone look like that an eat pizza?

 

 

If you notice, he's just looking at it, and Wishing he could eat it !

[Bearofdistinction]

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THAT is the best Picture of my Cousin Brucey I have ever seen! To bad he was not playing his Acordian!

[+ poolboy48220]

A great post-credits clip from "Bridesmaids": https://getyarn.io/yarn-clip/abc5c74c-8c5f-42aa-98b8-646459429478

[MikeBiDude]

I'll bet this bear doesn't know what to nibble on first:

Mmmmmmm, Joe’s pizza

[samhexum]

For Those Who Like Bears

 

An orphaned bear cub suffered painful burns to her paws in one of the half-dozen significant wildfires scorching Colorado, but she is being nursed back to health, state officials said Friday.

 

Colorado Parks and Wildlife officers believe the bear will recover well enough to be released this winter.

 

“When the bear was brought in, I wasn’t sure if it was going to make it,” Michael Sirochman said, a Parks and Wildlife veterinary technician. “But she’s responding very well to treatment, and by winter we believe we’ll be able to return her to the wild.”

 

It was an encouraging bit of news amid an extreme drought and an outbreak of disruptive wildfires in Colorado and much of the Southwestern U.S.

 

The injured bear cub is 4 or 5 months and weighed just 10 pounds when she was rescued.

 

Firefighters spotted her wandering alone in a burned-over area north of Durango last week. They notified wildlife officials on June 22 because there was no sign of her mother. It’s not clear how the mother and cub became separated.

 

Wildlife officers found the cub in a tree and immobilized her with a tranquilizer dart and took her to a state facility.

 

Sirochman, the facility’s manager, said the cub’s burns were severe. She’s being treated with salve, bandages, antibiotics and pain medication, and is eating solid food and a liquid milk replacement.

 

She spends most of her time lying on her side to keep her weight off the painful wounds, Sirochman said.

 

Caretakers are minimizing their contact with the cub so she won’t become accustomed to humans, which would make it difficult for her to survive in the wild.

 

After she heals, she will be placed in an enclosure with four other cubs at the wildlife facility. They could be released this winter.

 

“We have good luck returning young bears to the wild,” Sirochman said. “We’re very strict about minimizing human contact.”

 

In California, two adult bears that suffered third-degree burns in a wildfire last year recovered and were released back into the wild.

 

[down_to_business]

[Rudynate]

How can someone look like that an eat pizza?

 

If they know how to eat pizza strategically, it can actually help them look like that.

[samhexum]

A bear with a taste for margaritas caused a stir in a Southern California community when it took a dip in a bubbling hot tub.

 

Mark Hough said he was lounging in his Altadena backyard Friday afternoon with his wife and a couple margaritas when he heard rustling, then saw the bear climbing over a fence into his yard.

 

They retreated inside, leaving the margaritas behind. Hough later ventured out to discover the bear lounging in the unheated hot tub. After Hough shot some video, he said the bear emerged from the water, walked over to his margarita, knocked it over and lapped it up.

 

Hough later spotted the bear taking a snooze in an oak tree before it disappeared down the street.

 

The Los Angeles County Sheriff’s department said it received six bear-sighting calls that day, but were unable to find it.

 

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[samhexum]

A hero dad was mauled to death by a polar bear in Canada as he tried to protect his children from the charging carnivore.

 

Aaron Gibbons, 31, was on a family outing Tuesday evening to Sentry Island, a popular hunting and fishing spot in Nunavut, when a polar bear started running towards one of his kids, family members told local outlets.

 

“He was enjoying his day with his children,” Gordy Kidlapik, Gibbons’s uncle, told The Globe and Mail.“They were surprised by a bear that started to stalk or charge toward one of his children.”

 

So the brave dad put himself between his kids and the Arctic ursine.

 

“He told his children to run away to the boat while he was putting himself between the bear and his children to protect them,” Kidlapik said.

 

The elementary school-age kids sprinted to the family’s boat, where one of the girls called for help on their radio.

 

“We actually heard the call for help,” said Kidlapik. “It was terrible to listen to.”

 

The grieving uncle said Gibbons probably had a rifle with him as a precaution — because the island is known to have bears — but Royal Canadian Mountain Police said he didn’t have the weapon on hand. The beast was shot and killed by another adult on the island, police said.

 

Community members in the 2,500-person hamlet of Arviat, about 6 miles from the island, mourned the loss of Gibbons.

 

“We are still in shock but we are resilient and we will go on and continue as a community,” Eric Anoee, Gibbons’s cousin, told the CBC.

 

“Definitely Aaron died a hero, he protected his children,” Anoee said.

 

Investigators are looking into what prompted the attack, in order to prevent another tragic incident from happening. The last death by a polar bear in Nunavut was 18 years ago in Rankin Inlet.

 

Polar bears roam freely near the community, typically in October and November — but can also be seen in the summer and springtime, said John Main, a representative for Arviat North-Whale Cove.

 

“It’s a fact of life for us living here now,” said Main. “It’s always something that people are mindful of and it’s always something that I think people are concerned about in terms of the risks.”

 

Trick-or-treating has even moved indoors at community centers because of the threat.

 

In 2010, a polar bear patrol program was launched to monitor the community’s perimeter by WWF-Canada, and the organization said it has also decreased the number of bears that have to be killed.

 

The Department of Environment and Climate Change said that in 2016, 205 bears were deterred by the program, 29 relocated by conservation officers and four killed in defense of life and property.

 

“We’re in bear country and Inuit long ago up to today have co-existed with polar bears,” said Anoee. “We have the utmost respect to these animals and it’s hard sometimes, but we manage.”

[+ FreshFluff]

[Guy Fawkes]

I do like Short, Muscular, Latinos... However those ear rings have to go!

 

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[samhexum]

Bears don’t usually pack a lunch, but they’ll be happy to eat whatever someone else has prepared.

 

WSB-TV reports that Carrie Watts of Rabun County, Georgia, found a large black bear enjoying her sandwich, chips and a cookie inside her minivan after climbing through an open window.

 

Watts had left the windows down Wednesday to combat the summer heat. She initially thought the bear was a black cat.

 

She says the bear spent about 30 minutes in the minivan before it climbed back out the window and scaled a tree.

 

Watts said lunch wasn’t the only thing the bear demolished; it also destroyed her child’s car seat and shredded some paperwork.

[+ Gar1eth]

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Gman

[samhexum]

A black bear wandered the lobby of the Colorado hotel that inspired Stephen King to write “The Shining.”

 

Stanley Hotel vice president Reed Rowley tells KDVR-TV 300 guests were sound asleep as the bruin figured out how to open the door and climbed over furniture. A front desk supervisor taped the romp.

 

There was no damage, but the furniture got rearranged before the bear walked out of the lower level door.

 

The hotel in Estes Park opened in 1909 and is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

 

King wrote “The Shining” after he and his wife stayed at The Stanley in 1974. The 1980 horror film was not shot there.

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Edited August 28, 2018 by samhexum

[Guy Fawkes]

My mom did just about the same thing once. My compliments to the staff who shot it; That took "tener cojones"

[samhexum]

Edited June 17, 2019 by samhexum

[samhexum]

A man whose body was discovered partially eaten by a bear in Great Smoky Mountains National Park last year died of a meth overdose before the bear ever got to him, according to an autopsy released on Monday.

 

The remains of William Lee Hill Jr., 30, of Louisville, Tenn., were discovered in the national park in September when officials encountered a bear feeding on the body in an area off a trail.

 

Without knowing the exact cause of death, park officials and wildlife professionals decided to euthanize the bear a few days later for “public safety reasons.”

 

But on Monday, the Knox County Regional Forensic Center revealed Hill died of “accidental methamphetamine intoxication,” WATE reported.

 

Hill had a history of drug use, and his body was found near syringes and other drug paraphernalia, according to a copy of the report obtained by the Knoxville News Sentinel.

 

The 30-year-old had gone to the park with his friend, Joshua David Morgan, to illegally remove ginseng from the park, but the pair became separated, according to the newspaper.

 

Morgan, 31, died Oct. 1 at a hospital in Tennessee, according to his obituary, which does not list a cause of death.

 

The 3-year-old 155-pound bear who was euthanized showed no signs of rabies, The Daily Times reported at the time.

 

Officials estimate 1,500 bears are in the park along the Tennessee-North Carolina border, and though few show aggressive behavior toward humans, bears that pose a threat to visitor safety are euthanized on rare occasions.

 

The park says that attacks on humans are “rare,” but that people should stay at least 150 feet away from the animals.

 

“Bears are wild animals that are dangerous and unpredictable,” the park says on its website. “Do not approach bears or allow them to approach you!”

[samhexum]

A remote Russian region has declared a state of emergency over the appearance of dozens of polar bears in its human settlements, local officials say.

 

Authorities in the Novaya Zemlya islands, home to a few thousand people, said there were cases of bears attacking people and entering residential and public buildings.

 

Polar bears are affected by climate change and are increasingly forced on to land to look for food.

 

Russia classes them as endangered.

 

Hunting the bears is banned, and the federal environment agency has refused to issue licences to shoot them.

 

 

The bears had lost their fear of police patrols and signals used to warn them off, meaning that more drastic measures were needed, officials said.

 

They say that if other means to scare off the bears fail a cull could be the only answer.

 

The archipelago's main settlement, Belushya Guba, has reported a total of 52 bears in its vicinity, with between six and 10 constantly on its territory.

 

Local administration head Vigansha Musin said more than five bears were on the territory of the local military garrison, where air and air defence forces are based.

 

"I've been on Novaya Zemlya since 1983," he said in an official press release. "There's never been such a mass invasion of polar bears."

 

His deputy said normal life was being disrupted by the threat.

 

"People are scared, afraid to leave their homes, their daily routines are being broken, and parents are unwilling to let their children go to school or kindergarten," the deputy head of the local administration, Alexander Minayev, said.

 

With Arctic sea ice diminishing as a result of climate change, polar bears are forced to change their hunting habits and spend more time on land looking for food - which potentially puts them in conflict with humans.

 

In 2016 five Russian scientists were besieged by polar bears for several weeks at a remote weather station on the island of Troynoy, east of Novaya Zemlya.