so, it’s easier to pick berries, so that’s what they’re doing?
Up in Denali, berries are pretty much all they eat.
They’re flexible that way. Do Not worry about the survival of bears. They kind of know what they are doing.
Bears eat whatever is at hand. They don't give a damn. Heck they will even eat bells and pepper spray and North Face Jackets.
GW making them eat their dessert before their meat.
Sounds like the polar bears stuck on ice floes.
Grizzlies eat a lot, particularly about now, so as to pack on the pounds for winter. The berries have a lot of calories. I’d think they are easier to catch than salmon. This guy seems to think that there is only one salmon run, too. The bears are probably just doing dessert after a hard day fishing.
Nevermind there are dozens of years old children stories about blueberry eating bears.
Trump’s fault!
i think this writer should go out in the woods find a hungry grizzly and confront him without any weapons just to make sure he won’t eat meat.
BIG Group Cheer from the Salmon community!!
The study found that during the unusually warm summer of 2014, the bears, which would traditionally kill up to 75 percent of the salmon, were nowhere to be seen near the streams.
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Good news for salmon.
“Grizzly bears have stopped eating salmon”
Lies!
Then they pretend to recommend defense against bear attacks and never mention GUNS.
Da bearse like to get drunk on fermenting fruit.
Even their fathers smelt of elderberries.
For bears, subsisting primarily on the salmon-run is problematic. The reason? Hookworm parasite. The fish are a carrier, and eating uncooked salmon eventually causes the bear’s gut to be full of worms. The only reason the Bears can tolerate it at all is that their guts empty when they hibernate, killing all the parasites.
Animals aren’t stupid. They are going to eat the highest value food available as long as the effort to get that food is minimal. If the berrys are ripe, which would you rather do? Stand in frigid waters on slippery rocks trying to catch a salmon that will make you sick, of stand in the sunshine chowing down on a bumper crop of berries?
Taking this analogy further, then, it's like having a choice between pancakes and kale salad. Given such a choice, I choose pancakes, yum! Yet the bears choose berries over fish? Seems "fishy" to me.
Right, because bears have NEVER, EVER, EVAH, EVAH, EVAH eaten berries before in the history of bears or berries!
EVAH!
Apparently one of the effects of modern civilization is total retardation.
The leftists should be happy now if bears are turning vegetarian.
Grizzly bears have stopped eating salmon in favour of elderberries after being forced to make a choice due to climate change.
Patent Bullshit.
This is soooo stupid. Two-tenths of a degree of warming in twenty years is completely imperceptible to an animal that thrives amid yearly 100-degree temperature swings.
“Because you can only eat so much at one time.”
So the bears appear to really, really like berries. Maybe they prefer berries?
OMG!! This cannot be true!!! Grizzly Bears are NOT “thinking” animals; they are not smart enough to ADAPT, they are just supposed to gradually ALL die off!!! The article cannot be true!!! It must be “fake news” put out by “Trump supporters” to show Grissly Bears ADAPTING TO CONDITIONS, unlike human beings are expected to!!! /sarc