Thursday, May 11, 2006
Bears
Cool AP story here on a polar bear and grizzly bear cross shot in Canada:
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The last sentence cracked me up a bit:
"Polar bear and grizzly territories also overlap in the Western Arctic around the Beaufort Sea, where the occasional grizzly is known to head onto the sea ice looking for food after emerging from hibernation. Some grizzly bears make it over the ice all the way to Banks Island and Victoria Island, where they have been spotted and shot.
That might explain how a grizzly got to the region, but few can explain how it managed to get along with a polar bear long enough to mate."
News-Miner Web page
The last sentence cracked me up a bit:
"Polar bear and grizzly territories also overlap in the Western Arctic around the Beaufort Sea, where the occasional grizzly is known to head onto the sea ice looking for food after emerging from hibernation. Some grizzly bears make it over the ice all the way to Banks Island and Victoria Island, where they have been spotted and shot.
That might explain how a grizzly got to the region, but few can explain how it managed to get along with a polar bear long enough to mate."
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This sentence is pretty wild too:
According to the National Wildlife Federation, there are about 1,200 grizzlies in the lower 48 United States, 32,000 in Alaska, and 25,000 in Canada. Stirling said there are some 24,000 polar bears in Canada, Greenland, Russia and Alaska.
There are more grizlies in AK than in the rest of the United States AND Canada! We really are cool, arn't we!
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According to the National Wildlife Federation, there are about 1,200 grizzlies in the lower 48 United States, 32,000 in Alaska, and 25,000 in Canada. Stirling said there are some 24,000 polar bears in Canada, Greenland, Russia and Alaska.
There are more grizlies in AK than in the rest of the United States AND Canada! We really are cool, arn't we!
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