...GRIZZLY BEARS By Aaron Valenzuela GRIZZLY BEAR By Aaron Valenzuela Mrs. Garcia 1st Period 6th Grade May 18th TABLE OF CONTENTS Subject Page Cover Page . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Pg 1 Title Page . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Pg 2 Table of Contents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Pg 3 Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Pg4 Behavior . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Pg 5 Diet & Eating Habits . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Pg 6 Longevity & Cause of Death . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Pg 7 Conservation & Cause of Death . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Pg 8 Conclusion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Pg 9 Bibliography . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Pg 10 ...
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...SPECIES- Ursus Maritimus, Polar Bear, lord of the Arctic. Lives in an area of five million square miles of snow and ice. From Siberia to Alaska and across Canada, Greenland and the Islands north of Norway, he is the master of all living things except man. It lives in the brutal cold, ice, and snow. The temperature can plunge down frequently to -40 degrees and sometimes even lower but that does not bother the polar bear because of its color-less skin and layer of insulation fat. Its range extending around the northern polar region. Necessities of Life-The polar bear eats mostly seals which he has to hunt. His trick is to wait by a breathing in the ice and when a seal comes up by that breathing hole, he grabs it so fast it knocks it unconscious and then he eats it. Other pray is a walrus calf or a musk ox stuck in snow, birds, eggs, fish, and dead whales. And sometimes in the summer it eats berries and grass. The polar bear has no water to drink so it only eats the skin and blubber, avoiding the meat. So by eating the blubber and leaving the meat the male bear is helping keep his body in balance with the surrounding environment. The bear would usually stay in a den or bury it self in the snow to avoid the suns ultra violent rays. Usually the pregnant female polar bear stays in the den.Food Chain-The polar bear finds its way on the top of its food chain. No predator on earth approaches the bear in size. The polar bear towers over everything else in his food chain. The...
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...A special park?! Grizzly bears cannot be reintroduced to Idaho. But the can live in a special park. Then they would not be a danger for the people and the people will not be a danger for the bears. The grizzly bears are extinguishing. 50,000 grizzly bears used to live in America before European settlement. Today, however, only about 1,100 grizzly bears remain in scattered populations in Montana, Idaho, Wyoming and Washington. It is good that we are reintroduced to the grizzly bears. But the best way is to reintroduce them is in a special park. The bears should first survive in zoos, then it is easier to keep them alive in the wild. The zoo can work with different sorts of breeding programs. Through these breeding programs, the reproduction will be stimulated. That will have many benefits to increase the number of grizzly bears. Also the might die sooner in the wild. Another important reason to have a zoo is education. The education about nature and most important about the grizzly bears. Will be another way to introduce people to the bears. Also we can be a danger for them. We, as humans are very alienated from nature. The saying says: unknown, unloved. This means that we can be dangerous for bears. Just as we were in the 1940s. The bears could be eliminated again and could be shot at. This is the main reason to place a special zoo. If we would live in an ideal world, where animals still occur in large numbers and they would not be threatened by man. Then a...
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...The polar bear (Ursus maritimus) is a carnivorous bear whose native range lies largely within the Arctic Circle, encompassing the Arctic Ocean, its surrounding seas and surrounding land masses. It is a large bear, approximately the same size as the omnivorous Kodiak bear (Ursus arctos middendorffi).[3] A boar (adult male) weighs around 350–700 kg (770–1,540 lb),[4] while a sow (adult female) is about half that size. Although it is the sister species of the brown bear,[5] it has evolved to occupy a narrower ecological niche, with many body characteristics adapted for cold temperatures, for moving across snow, ice, and open water, and for hunting the seals which make up most of its diet.[6] Although most polar bears are born on land, they spend most of their time at sea. Their scientific name means "maritime bear", and derives from this fact. Polar bears hunt their preferred food of seals from the edge of sea ice, often living off fat reserves when no sea ice is present. The polar bear is classified as a vulnerable species, with eight of the nineteen polar bear subpopulations in decline.[7] For decades, large scale hunting raised international concern for the future of the species but populations rebounded after controls and quotas began to take effect.[citation needed] For thousands of years, the polar bear has been a key figure in the material, spiritual, and cultural life of Arctic indigenous peoples, and polar bears remain important in their...
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...Grizzly Bears During my investigation of the Grizzly bears, I have found that they have many different behaviors. Although these animals tend to be alone, they often interact with each other during fishing season in the summer. After observing bears for over a two-week period, I observed that Grizzly bears are fishing in both high and low concentrations in different sections of the river. Grizzly bears tend to fish in higher density in the rapids than in the calmer water just a couple of meters away. I will prove my hypothesis using the still shots given to us. In my studies I collected a total of fifty random still shots using excel; five photos from each hour, that helped me test my hypothesis by comparing the number of bears in and round...
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...Bears may be large and intimidating, but do not pose a threat to humanity. This essay will go deep into the myths about bears to uncover the truth behind these myths. What are these myths? Bears for years have been portrayed as deadly, overwhelming beasts which attack on sight, but after years of research, is this true? Primarily, over the years the years the media and public have made many false stories about bloodthirsty bears. One outrageous myth is that if bears taste human food, they don't go back; yet, “bears prefer natural, wild food unless it is difficult to find and human food is too easy to get” (Rogders). This is proof that bears do not go out of their way for humans; they prefer natural food. In summary, bears are not blood thirsty creatures but intelligent animals that do not pose a threat to humans if handled appropriately....
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...In the last two centuries, grizzly bears had been hunted and persecuted to extinction and mistaken as black bears. Grizzly bears are often portrayed as dangerous, voracious creatures who hunt and kill people, but they're nothing like that at all. In fact, they are not aggressive unless you’re the one causing a ruckus or being a threat around their cubs or food sources. Grizzly bears are quite intelligent, beautiful and unique creatures who have great memory, senses of hearing, and smell. But, since they are incorrectly portrayed as a threat, people are most likely to not be in favor of them. The FEDS are ready to delist grizzly bears and hunters are ready to make them trophies. David Suzuki, author of Grizzly Bear Trophy Hunt Is a Sport Like Dogfighting is one of many who oppose to killing grizzly bears. David Suzuki finds it inhumane to kill these animals for your own selfish and pleasurable means. On the contrary, Steven Rinella, author of The Problem with Protecting Grizzly Bears is in favor of killing grizzly bears. Due to the amount of money put into protecting these bears from harm's way, it's a waste of money. By reading both positions, it becomes apparent that it is inhumane to kill a grizzly bear as a trophy you hang...
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...American black bears, Ursus americanus, are found throughout North America with a small range in the South East United States, specifically in the coastal Carolinas and coastal Virginia. In this area, the bear population has seen drastic changes since the early 1900s. Habitat fragmentation, hunting, and change of food sources have reduced these populations to remote small patches of the southeast. As urbanization continues black bear populations see increased mortality rates, even on protected lands (Beckman and Lackey, 2008). The black bear populations extend throughout Upper Canada and down into parts of Mexico. In Canada, the populations are more connected and have larger habitat ranges; thus, have a healthier population. In Canada black...
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...In the book Touching Spirit Bear, the main character is a boy named Cole Mathews. He is very aggressive towards other people and as a result has been to multiple juvenile detention centers and police stations. There was one situation where he robbed a hardware store, trashed it, then bragged openly about doing it because the police hadn't caught him. A boy named Peter turned him in and as a result, Cole beat up Peter to the point where he had to be hospitalized and later had speech issues. Cole went to yet another juvenile detention center where an officer visited him regularly and informed him about a program called Circle Justice where instead of locking the kid up, they help them “heal”. Cole was accepted and they decided to put him on an...
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...threatening to remove grizzly bears from the Endangered Species list. While the grizzly bear population in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem has increased since the bears were added to the listing in 1975, the struggles to survive continue (U.S. Park Service). The Defenders of Wildlife agree that the government needs to keep protecting the grizzly bear because of the threats of human encounters, habitat availability and climate change. First, human encounters are a risk to the survival of grizzly bears. The National Park Service at Yellowstone reports that the management of grizzlies will not change within the park if these animals are removed from the list. Hunting will still not be allowed in the area. However, grizzly bears do not know the boundaries of the park. The states that surround the area could allow hunting of these animals during their regular seasons. As a result, the population of grizzly bears would decline. Next, habitats for grizzly bears are still fragile. The Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem is an ideal place for these bears to live and thrive, but outside the area there are many dangers. Humans continue...
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...Jered Duda Professor Joseph Wolcott English 110 4/3/13 Grizzly Bear Diets The grizzly bear is a subspecies of the brown bear; which generally lives in the uplands of western North America which crossed to Alaska from eastern Russia 100,000 years ago. In 1815, the grizzly formally got his name due to the color of its grizzled grey fur. Biologist John Muir once said that these bears “eat everything but granite.” The eating habits of these bears are pretty extreme and are known to be quite the scavengers. Food sources vary in availability from year to year, and from season to season. Grizzlies move throughout their habitat looking for foods available at that time of year. The availability of many foods is known to the bears by Season and the bears move to these areas based on their experience. In this way, the general seasonal distribution. The three main seasons in which grizzly bears have an extensive diet are Spring, Summer, and Fall (Grizzly Bears). From late March to May, Grizzlies arise from their dens, when adolescent vegetation begins to grow. Within early spring, bears move to lower terrain, away from the snow, to feed on this vegetation. Common spring food sources include ants, grasses, dandelion, clover, and other plants. The Grizzly diet consists with a significant amount of ungulate or hooved animals like elk and bison. Grizzly bears also dig up caches of nuts and pine seeds, stashed by pocket gophers and red squirrels from the previous fall. These inspiring giants...
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...A black bear decided to visit the city streets of Shawano. The black bear was spotted in a tree near the local park. This was around 4:50pm and it took nearly 10 hours to capture it. The DNR had captured it but they had to tranquilize it first. A lot of times bears will be in the outer limits of Shawano, but rarely will they exceed those limits. DNR warden Mark Schraugnagel had to take care of this situation. To make things safe he evacuated the area; for the bears safety and also for the people. John Huff shot the bear with the tranquilizer dart. The bear had moved higher into the tree. The bear was shot once again with a dart an hour later. The bear had to be shot with a third tranquilizer dart. After the third one the bear had climbed down the tree....
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...Known for their hump in between their shoulders the grizzly bear once ruled the very streets we walk on during the early 1800s; given the name “grizzly” due to the hair having golden-silver tips. With the influx of European settlers in North America came competition for space and food with the grizzly bear, these situations lead to a huge decrease in the number of grizzly bears roaming. The use of home decoration, sport, clothing, and same food sources lead to once about 50,000 grizzly bears diminished down to about 1200 during 1850-1920 and currently the Grizzly bear is threatened. The grizzly bear is a massive size creature that can grow to be as tall as 6ft on all fours and when standing can be 8ft tall. That height causes for much weight...
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...Bear attacks are rare, however, inevitable where humans and bears interact. One of the first thing to note is whether the bear is a grizzly or a black bear. Studies show that grizzly bears tend to be more aggressive compared to black bears because of the difference in selective pressures that have acted on them in the past and, act on them in the present (Herrero, Aspects of Evolution and Adaptation in American Black Bears (Ursus americanus Pallas) and Brown and Grizzly Bears (U. arctos Linne.) of North America n.d.). Herrero also states that there is evidence in data from the North American National Parks of bear encounters with humans as well as North American hunting records. Some reasoning for why this is true is due to the fact the black...
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...Header: Bear Stearns Corporate Governance Issues at Bear Stearns Article Summary: In the summer of 2008 the global financial crisis swept away trillions of dollars in net worth, wiping out people’s retirement savings, and causing the loss of millions of jobs. As the world slipped into recession, people looked for answers, and a place to rest blame. At Bear Stearns, a venerable financial firm which was brought down by mistakes made by decisions made by management, there is much blame to be shared. This paper seeks to explore the corporate governance decisions which created this crisis, and which ultimately led to the almost complete destruction of shareholder value for Bear Stearns’ investors. In good times, the shareholders at Bear Stearns were handsomely rewarded by the very decisions which would ultimately end the company’s storied 85 year history and send the global economy into the deepest and most painful recession since the great depression. The firm’s stock traded at $160 a share and several key executives held stock valued at almost $1 billion dollars, but it is clear that hubris, greed, and incredible egos and personality conflicts were the cause of the firm’s demise. In May of 2008, The Wall Street journal published a three part series written by Kate Kelly on the last days of Bear Stearns. Kelly’s articles consider all the factors which brought about the company’s demise, and provide insight into the corporate governance issues which helped seal Bear Sterns...
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