A Good Representation of Size

[RWebb]

Bears are generally omnivores, except for polar bears and bamboo specialists

Lack of moths is a big factor in grizzly bear declines

[masraum]

Originally Posted by rusnak

How do you kick all of the people out of the L.A. basin? I'd like to see more cougars and fewer hobos but OTOH, there are already too many lizards. Maybe we just spray paint the bums golden and call it good.

I suspect if you had enough cougars, you'd have fewer hobos. I think that problem would "take care of itself."

[masraum]

Originally Posted by Jeff Higgins

I was, of course, being facetious. For the most part, anyway.

There are plenty of truly wild places left in California. That may be hard to grasp from somewhere like the L.A. basin, the Bay Area, and other large population centers, but but a few days spent up north in places like Humboldt County, or up in the Sierra Nevada range, and places like that would demonstrate just how much wilderness remains in California. These areas would be eminently suitable for a large scale reintroduction of the Golden Bear.

I've flown to/from the LA area and SF area a few times, and you do fly over what looks from the air like some pretty rugged unpopulated land.

[legion]

Originally Posted by afterburn 549

Bear are herbivores, perhaps with enough compost in the vegans they might be appetizing?


EWwwwwwww

Bears are omnivores. They will eat fish, deer, wolves, coyotes, buffalo, and people if hungry enough.

[legion]

Originally Posted by RWebb

Bears are generally omnivores, except for polar bears and bamboo specialists

Lack of moths is a big factor in grizzly bear declines

What kind of bear eats bamboo?

[bickyd]

I get to work in very remote places. this is the northern west coast of BC. If i knew how to post a vid here, I have one of a very large black grizzly from fairly close. like 20 feet close. the black bears here live on the slopes because if they get caught in the valley they are eaten.

[Tobra]

Originally Posted by masraum

I suspect if you had enough cougars, you'd have fewer hobos. I think that problem would "take care of itself."

Maybe, but then you have cougars getting hepatitis


I for one welcome our cougar overlords

[RWebb]

Pandas eat bamboo.

[legion]

Originally Posted by RWebb

Pandas eat bamboo.

Pandas are not bears.

[Aerkuld]

Originally Posted by legion

Pandas are not bears.

I could see this coming. However, I think it's been determined that Pandas ARE bears.

Koala bears definitely aren't bears. Maybe that's what you were thinking of?

[RWebb]

Pandas (the black & white ones that eat bamboo) are indeed bears; genetic analyses place them in the Ursidae.

The animal sometimes called the Red Panda, which looks like a raccoon is a... raccoon (Procyonidae).

[sc_rufctr]

Originally Posted by Jeff Higgins

I am absolutely 100% behind the re-introduction of the native California "golden bear". I believe the last one verified there was probably late 19th century. It's an absolute crime, what mankind has done to them, eradicating them from their natural haunts. It's high time they are restored across their historic range. For the life of me, I cannot understand why our modern day wildlife organizations - the same ones that have put so much effort into, for example, wolf recovery - are not all over this. It seems like an obvious "next step" towards restoring the natural balance of the State of California.

[sammyg2]

I like being at the top of the food chain.

The largest polar bear recorded weighed 2,209 pounds

[masraum]

[rusnak]

Originally Posted by bickyd

I get to work in very remote places. this is the northern west coast of BC. If i knew how to post a vid here, I have one of a very large black grizzly from fairly close. like 20 feet close. the black bears here live on the slopes because if they get caught in the valley they are eaten.

By what? Hillbillies? You have to be WT with no TP to eat bear meat.

[smadsen]

That bear in the opening video looked like he'd had a Keith Richards dose of his daily "happy" pills.

[Jeff Higgins]

[RSBob]

Originally Posted by legion

Pandas are not bears.

Just like a seahorse is not a fish? . Wikipedia is your friend.

[RWebb]

it's not a biggie - scientists were unsure until some years ago anyway

[Jeff Higgins]

They are, however, convinced beyond any shadow of a doubt that bears do, in fact, schitt in the woods. And that the Pope is Catholic.