Alaska boy, 11, shoots bear charging fishing party

Fox News ^ | July 1,2017

[txhurl]

Are the Kodiaks the ones who feast on moths right out of hibernation?

[MileHi]

I think they might be, I’ve seen that on nature shows. Isn’t that something, those huge bears feasting on those tiny insects? But they are easy protein. I know black bears love grass etc when they first come out in the spring to get their guts going again, but then carrion, every winter kill deer, elk they can sniff out. And any other meal of opportunity.

[tumblindice]

That young man won’t need a pole next trip.
He can fish with his bear hands.

[Bulwyf]

Article says it’s a brown bear. That’s the same as a grizz.

[TexasGator]

please don’t pass along false gossip.

[Jeff Chandler]

Kodiak is a larger subset of grizzly (brown bear). They are both ursus horribilis.

You are correct.

[Jeff Chandler]

Article says it’s a brown bear. That’s the same as a grizz.

As I understand it, grizzlies are brown bears, but not all brown bears are grizzlies.

[Jeff Chandler]

I take back my concession. Kodiak is a subspecies of brown bear, just as the grizzly bear is. The Kodiak (Ursus arctos middendorffi) is not a grizzly bear.

[fr_freak]

Distracting it is a different kind of problem all together.

[BradyLS]

Nor will he ever be a pajama-boy.

[BradyLS]

He will be prying the girls off of himself with a crowbar.

I doubt I'd put up too much resistance for a while at first! ;-)

[kanawa]

+1

[Jeff Chandler]

Some folks call all Brown Bears “Grizzlies”, not just the inland North American species with the silver tipped fur. And many sources use the terms interchangeably.

Brown Bear taxonomy is confusing at best. And you can throw into the mix the fact that the Polar Bear is a recent variation, closely related to the Brown Bear, with interbreeding occurring in their overlapping territories.

Kodiak is a subspecies of Brown Bear developed in isolation, but again, very close to other Brown Bear subspecies.

The genetic difference between Coastal Brown Bears and Grizzly Bears is almost non-existent, with most differences being that of location and diet, and with interbreeding causing a continuum between the two.

Since food is more plentiful for coastal Brown Bears, they tend to grow larger due to less caloric output and plentiful protein (salmon).

Inland Grizzlies spend most of their time foraging for food, and with much of their diet consisting of roots, tubers, and subterranean rodents, they do a lot of hard digging, which is why their paws are so strong. And because of their harsh living conditions (and perhaps for genetic reasons?), Grizzlies are more aggressive, quicker to react to humans.

Thank you for bearing with me.

[CurlyDave]

Grizzlies are called “Brown Bears” all over. It is their official name.

The smaller bears are called “Black Bears” although they come in many colors: Black, Brown and Cinnamon.

[Darteaus94025]

Polar bears?

[Right Wing Assault]

You never hear a thing.

I believe it. The story mentioned three dogs. My dog can hear a bread crumb hit the floor from 50 feet away and around a corner, but he probably would have missed the bear, too.

[wastoute]

LOL. Cute. “Thanks for bearing with me.”

[Apple Pan Dowdy]

"~You never hear a thing. I believe it. The story mentioned three dogs. My dog can hear a bread crumb hit the floor from 50 feet away and around a corner, but he probably would have missed the bear, too."

You are so right. Our two Labs can hear us peal a banana from anywhere in the house, and if anyone comes near the house they are all-over-it with barking. But a few weeks ago on a foggy morning, early dawn, two medium sized bears came walking slowly, out of the woods, across our driveway by the kitchen window, across the yard, then down through the meadow heading towards the creek, and the dogs never heard them. I just happened to catch a glimpse of them out the kitchen window and we watched them till they were out of sight. It was so surreal, seeing them moseying through the fog and they could not see us as the electricity was still off due to a storm during the night. Checking the footprints later, the print was almost 3 times the size of hubby's hand. Living among the bears is awesome, but challenging.

[free_life]

Bella Twin, an Indian girl, and her friend Dave Auger were hunting grouse near Lesser Slave Lake in northern Alberta. The only gun they had was Bella’s single-shot bolt-action .22 Rimfire rifle. They were walking a cutline that had been made for oil exploration when they saw a large grizzly following the same survey line toward them. If they ran, the bear would probably notice them and might chase, so they quietly sat down on a brush pile and hoped that the bear would pass by without trouble. But the bear came much too close, and when the big boar was only a few yards away, Bella Twin shot him in the side of the head with a .22 Long cartridge. The bear dropped, kicked and then lay still. Taking no chances, Bella went up close and fired all of the cartridges she had, seven or eight .22 Longs, into the bear’s head. That bear, killed in 1953, was the world-record grizzly for several years and is still high in the records today. Which only goes to show that in an emergency, strange things are possible, but who wants that kind of emergency?

Brain shot will take down the biggest of bears even with 22, eye, ear, nose shot.

I can smell bear at 150 yards if down wind.

[Right Wing Assault]

And I thought I had problems with 15 white tail deer devouring all flower buds in sight. Every few nights our 18-pound watchdog Shetland Sheepdog goes berserk over deer walking across our concrete drive, but he doesn't hear them walking in the back yard on grass. Can't kill them in the suburbs but they have reasons to run when I rattle my car keys.