Polar Bears Kills Woman And Young Child in Wales (Anchorage: house, legal)

[ShouldIMoveOrStayPut...?]

Originally Posted by Northrick

Well, there is this series of photos:

Ford could use those photos in advertising... Those 1980's Bronco's were the best years for that model IMO. They fetch quite a price these days if you can find one, and now good for Polar Bear aversion...

Originally Posted by Arktikos

A friend's father once escaped a grizzly bear in the Brooks range by running down a steep stream embankment. The bear decided not to pursue.

Indeed! Bears generally have huge/heavy back ends with powerful hind legs and taper down in the mid and upper body and head. You can see this clearly in Northrick's pictures with the PB. When traveling down a steep slope the momentum and weight of the back end can overtake the front, making this type of fast travel a dicey proposition for them, especially if there are trees, brush, briar, undergrowth, rocks/boulders, etc.

Originally Posted by ketchikanite

Seafood would be their preferred diet but they are opportunistic eaters as well.

Seafood my favorite too! My most memorable dish was a bowl of Nova Scotia Seafood Chowder with scallops, haddock, lobster and potatoes in a milk/cream sauce.

[Cloudy Dayz]

The bear was in poor health, but didn't have pathogens.

Polar bear in fatal Wales attack was in poor health

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — A polar bear that killed a young mother and her baby last month in western Alaska was likely an older animal in poor physical condition, but tests came back negative for pathogens that affect the brain and cause aggressive behavior, officials said Monday.

Dr. Kimberlee Beckmen, a state wildlife veterinarian, collected and examined samples from the bear’s head the day after the attack, when weather conditions allowed her and an Alaska State Trooper to fly to the village.

The results of her analysis, which were released Monday but initially were dated Feb. 3, indicate the bear was an adult male, probably older and in poor physical health. Officials sent a tooth to a lab to determine the bear’s age, but those results won’t be known for months.

Polar bear in fatal Wales attack was in poor health - Alaska Public Media

[Mr.Retired]

While it’s not clear why the bear attacked,

" Maybe it was hungry ? " and humans are in the way?


Reporters need to cover all the bases.

[wamer27]

Originally Posted by OneDawg

When I lived in Churchill, MB many years ago, it was fairly common to see ten bears sitting in the garbage dump waiting on the trucks to arrive. One year we had an aggressive bear - previously caught and tagged - who would stick her head into any window she could find looking for a tasty morsel. If you happened to be sitting by that window, she'd get you. Only happened once after that the mounties launched evening patrols going up and down the roads looking for bears. Polars love all kinds of meat, white and dark, belugas, seals, man

I can fly or drive to Winnipeg within 7 hours, then take the train to Churchill to see these bears. Would you recommend winter or summer? I watched the Baird brothers 30 day float of the Seal river on YouTube. Onnce they reached the bay they were told to stay in a cabin on the beach as they came across many bears. Is it worth taking this many day trip to see them in the wild? A friend who lives in his van traveling 100k miles per year came across one in the woods across a small bay in Newfoundland. It was eyeing him up the entire time, the pictures were awesome (he’s a filmmaker/photographer) but it began moving towards him so he left in his van quickly.

[Parnassia]

Originally Posted by wamer27

I can fly or drive to Winnipeg within 7 hours, then take the train to Churchill to see these bears. Would you recommend winter or summer? I watched the Baird brothers 30 day float of the Seal river on YouTube. Onnce they reached the bay they were told to stay in a cabin on the beach as they came across many bears. Is it worth taking this many day trip to see them in the wild? A friend who lives in his van traveling 100k miles per year came across one in the woods across a small bay in Newfoundland. It was eyeing him up the entire time, the pictures were awesome (he’s a filmmaker/photographer) but it began moving towards him so he left in his van quickly.

Your best chance to spot them will be in the fall as they congregate near shore waiting for sea ice to form. The rest of the year they scatter. Once the sea ice forms they move farther offshore to hunt. According to the link below there are more and less remote, time-consuming, expensive bear viewing options.

Doesn't sound as if you need to use up "many days" of your life just to see them if you time it right. Considering that fewer polar bears are surviving as polar sea ice declines, you'll need to decide for yourself if the opportunity to observe such an endangered species is important enough to you.

https://www.travelmanitoba.com/blog/...rime%20viewing.

[RayinAK]

Originally Posted by Parnassia

Your best chance to spot them will be in the fall as they congregate near shore waiting for sea ice to form. The rest of the year they scatter. Once the sea ice forms they move farther offshore to hunt. According to the link below there are more and less remote, time-consuming, expensive bear viewing options.

Doesn't sound as if you need to use up "many days" of your life just to see them if you time it right. Considering that fewer polar bears are surviving as polar sea ice declines, you'll need to decide for yourself if the opportunity to observe such an endangered species is important enough to you.

https://www.travelmanitoba.com/blog/...rime%20viewing.

Agree. Also Churchill is located in Canada, so he would have to check about visiting Churchill to watch the bears with Canada.

https://www.travelmanitoba.com/churchill/

[Northrick]

Been thinking about doing something similar, except going to Kaktovik, AK. Over 25 years of living in AK I haven't seen a polar bear in the wild and would like to.

[wamer27]

Originally Posted by RayinAK

Agree. Also Churchill is located in Canada, so he would have to check about visiting Churchill to watch the bears with Canada.

https://www.travelmanitoba.com/churchill/

Haha oh hell no…the last pic on the right with group of people outside and two Bears wrestling.

Other note, I’m half Canadian. Just waiting on my citizenship papers now.

[RayinAK]

Originally Posted by wamer27

Haha oh hell no…the last pic on the right with group of people outside and two Bears wrestling.

Other note, I’m half Canadian. Just waiting on my citizenship papers now.

Anything is possible, but you still have to check with the Canadians in Churchill, which should not be a problem since you are half-way there already

[RayinAK]

Originally Posted by Northrick

Been thinking about doing something similar, except going to Kaktovik, AK. Over 25 years of living in AK I haven't seen a polar bear in the wild and would like to.

I knew a young lady who was working at UAF a few years ago who was from Kaktovik, and she showed me numerous photos of polar bears she took with her cellphone.