Clockwise: A female hybrid, male hybrid, polar bear and brown bear (all pictures courtesy of Alexandra Preuß)Scientists can now answer the question, following the first study of a polar bear/grizzly bear hybrid.Only one hybrid bear has ever been seen in the wild, so the study evaluated two hybrid bears kept in captivity, which are among 17 such bears known to exist.While each hybrid has inherited characteristics...
|
Bears in a zoo in eastern Germany have lost their fur, but international experts cannot work out why.Three spectacled bears in Leipzig Zoo are in various states of baldness, with the worst being hairless all over.Zoo curator Gerd Noetzhold said he had discovered that zoos throughout Europe and further afield had encountered the same problem, but no-one knew why.One expert suggested it could be caused...
|
person was brutally mauled by a juvenile Himalayan black bear in the forest area near Palace Gate, Upper Tanthangchen here this morning. The victim Bimal Gurung, was collecting fodder for cattle at around 1030 hrs when he came in the path of the bear who were rummaging in the bushes for food. He sustained deep injuries to his head, right hand and chest.After the brief encounter, the bear disappeared...
|
black bear was killed by police while another bear attacked and injured a villager in the Kashmir Valley overnight, official sources said here today.They said a black bear, appeared in Grend Jaibal village falling under the jurisdiction of police station Ashmuqam in south Kashmir, was killed by police on the orders of wildlife warden. The bear had become great threat to villagers in the area, the sources...
|
Idaho boy, 11, shoots black bear on family's porch < ');" class="size11 blue"> RateAn 11-year-old boy shot a black bear on his family's front porch after he said it wouldn't leave. The boy was at his home near Driggs, just west of the Idaho-Wyoming border, with his younger sisters last Wednesday when the bear showed up. The youngster said he couldn't shoo it away, so he went and got his gun and shot...
|
A bear was shot dead today after it strayed into a village while another attacked a person leaving him critically injured in separate incidents in Anantnag district.A black bear strayed into Grend-Jaibal village of the district in South Kashmir and was killed by police on the orders of wildlife authorities who thought it posed a threat to the life of the villagers, a police spokesman said.In a separate...
|
the Utah Idaho broder, near the Bear Lake it seems that the Bear Lake Monster is again surfacing and seen. A creature which sometimes resembles like a beast, walrus or a dinosaur was first sighted in 2004IF REPORTS are to believed, on the Utah Idaho broder, near the Bear Lake it seems that the Bear Lake Monster is again surfacing and seen. A creature which sometimes resembles like a beast, walrus or...
|
Sloth bears including a sub-adult cub were rescued by the Forest Department officials in Villupuram last week.The bears have been rehabilitated at the Vandalur zoo, where they were brought on Saturday midnight, the zoo authorities said.While the adult male bear was said to be 12 years old, the female 18 years and the sub-adult three years old. The Forest officials seized the bears from a man belonging...
|
Monday a residential area in Srinagarwas in for a shock, a wild black bear was seen roaming around in the bylanes of the mohalla. This, however, was not a stray incident, this was 49th wild bear rescued from residential areas since April this year.Linking the behavioural change in the habitat to climate change, the wildlife department is studying the impact of the climate change by monitoring the wildbears...
|
GODHRA:Two persons were attacked by bears in two separate incidents in a forest stretchbetween Bariya Kuva and Mulla Kuva village on the outskirts of the city onWednesday morning.Forest department sources said, Arvind Bhikha agrass cutter from Bariya Kuva village was cutting grass in the dense forest areaat around 9 am when he was attacked by the bear. The bear bit off his ear andinjured him on the...
|
