27 April 2012. You Can’t Make Up Shit Like This Department… Was He a “Party Animal?” We’ll Never Know If He Got the Honey…

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In a truly memorable moment, you can see a bear falling from a tree after police tranquilised it in Colorado. The young bear, estimated to weigh between 150 and 200 pounds (68-91 kilos), had wandered onto the University of Colorado at Boulder campus and climbed into a tree, according to the CU Independent, which captured the stunning image. CU Police Department spokesman Ryan Huff told the paper, “[The bear] was tranquilised by the Colorado Parks and Wildlife Department and it fell onto some mats that the Rec Center provided. It’s now in a cage and it’ll be relocated at a higher elevation”. Before the cops tranquilised it, the bear spent about two hours in a tree near the campus dorms. Reportedly, it landed safely.

26 April 2012

Eric Pfeiffer

The Sideshow

Yahoo! News

http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/sideshow/bear-falls-safely-tree-tranquilized-police-photo-211524912.html

RIA-Novosti Presents… Beggar Bears on the Roads of Sakhalin Oblast

Huntsmen in Sakhalin placed fish in the forests, in an attempt to divert bears away from human settlements. Due to the excessive summer heat, the bears don’t have the required amount of subcutaneous fat, so, they increasingly encroach upon human habitations. Previously, game wardens in the region reported that bears are increasingly attacking dogs. The most dangerous situations are in Nevelsky and Kholmsky Raions and in the suburbs of Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk. So far, this year, wardens shot 25 bears that represented real threats to the population.

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This summer’s hot weather led to low water levels in the rivers, killing fish due to a lack of water. The bears couldn’t find enough food, so they couldn’t accumulate sufficient fat for hibernation. At present, the bears are looking for food near towns and villages, rubbish tips, and country houses, and they go out onto the road to beg for food.

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Annually, on Sakhalin, two to three cases of bear attacks against humans occur. In 2010, one person died from a bear attack. Since then, game wardens have killed about 20 bears that posed threats to local residents and that had attacked livestock.

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In Sakhalin Oblast, bears live on the islands of Kunashir, Iturup, Paramushir, and Shumshu, and Sakhalin. These bears are some of the largest in the Far East; their body length reaches 3 metres (9.85 feet), and they can weigh up to 700 kilos (1,543 pounds). In nature, the bears live up to 45 years. There are 3,500 to 4,000 bears in Sakhalin Oblast.

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10 November 2011

RIA-Novosti

http://eco.ria.ru/ecophoto/20111110/484511454.html

Editor’s Note:

It’s Novem-bear… Septem-bear and Octo-bear have just passed, and Decem-bear’s on its way… remem-bear, “there’s bears in the gutter, and be careful not to utter a sound that might disturb them”.

BMD