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Banff National Park Bears Use Highway Crossings to Find Mates

Recent studies have found that bears in the Canadian Banff National Park frequently use highway crossings in search of prospective mates. The crossings were originally put in place to allow wildlife to continue travelling in the forest around the fenced highways and reduce the number of wildlife-vehicles collisions.

Banff has a total of 44 highway crossings, consisting of 38 underpasses and six overpasses and since their construction, Parks Canada has found that wildlife-vehicle collisions in Banff National Park were reduced by 80 percent. The Wildlife Collision Prevention Program estimates that in Canada, there are four to eight large animal vehicle collisions every hour. Large animals consist of moose, elk, wolves, lynxes, cougars, deer and coyotes. When collisions between these animals and vehicles occur, it can sometimes be fatal for all parties involved.

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Grizzly bear comeback? Feds move to delist as a 'threatened' species

Grizzly bears have become so numerous in and around Yellowstone National Park that state and federal wildlife managers have recommended that the animals no longer be classified as “threatened” under the Endangered Species Act.

If the US Fish and Wildlife Service accepts the recommendation, the great bears could once again be hunted as game animals in the Yellowstone area. That’s what has happened with wolves there since they were reintroduced to the northern Rockies in the mid-1990s.

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Grizzly Bear Facts

As countless children’s books, comics, movies and stories would attest, the Grizzly Bear is one of the world’s most well-loved among forest creatures, popularized by its large “hearty” size and its generally docile nature.

Essentially a sub-species of the North American Brown Bear, Grizzlies were under the spotlight in the Open Season trilogy of movies, with Open Season 3 being the last installment.

Telling the story of how Boog, the main protagonist of the movie, got involved with Russian Grizzly Bears who were part of a traveling circus troupe, the movie looked into different aspects of the life of Grizzlies, with a two-fold approach in showing the life of free, wild Grizzlies and those kept in captivity.

Though everyone is quite aware of how Grizzly Bears can well adjust to controlled domesticated habitats, not everyone is aware that they are the largest known land-based predatorial mammals, a standing that is seconded by the Tiger.

However, though they are predators and are at the top of the food chain in their habitats, their diets regularly consist of nuts and berries, along with fruits, roots and leaves.

Also, though Grizzlies are typically depicted as slow moving creatures due to their size, they are actually quite fast, with the Grizzly’s top running speed rated to be somewhere close to 48 kilometers per hour.

As a threat to human beings, the Grizzly Bear is known to be one creature that is best avoided, regardless of their status as “passive” creatures. In fact, people are always advised to keep their distance when a Grizzly Bear is around, most especially when a mother Grizzly Bear is with her cubs.

Though not exactly liable to attack unless provoked, countless efforts by different sanctioned enforcement agencies do what they can in controlling instances when Grizzly Bears meet with human beings or human populations.

Smart and highly adaptable, Grizzlies are truly among the more majestic and interesting of Mother Nature’s creatures.

Grizzly Bear Facts

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Bears

Bears are typically depicted as cute lovable creatures, whose cuddly bulks have been defined in countless stuffed toys and cute cartoon characters.

From Yogi to Boo-boo, there have been a number of movies and shows which feature bears as their respective central characters, but it is the 1988 released The Bear which stands to be the most unique, having the least amount of human characters and human dialogue involved in the story’s overall plot.

In its telling, The Bear is essentially a movie about a young orphan bear and how the little tyke managed to find the company of an adult male bear, with both bears faced with the challenge of avoiding overzealous hunters.

Though bears aren’t always described to be the most “family oriented” of mammals, cases of bears adopting stray cubs are known to exist, just as case of male bears killing bear cubs are also known to be, commonly occurring with American Black Bears.

In taxonomic terms, bears are part of the Ursidae family, categorized as dog-like carnivores. There are eight currently known living bear species, including bears like the Giant Panda, the Sloth, the Alaskan Brown Bear and more.

As creatures, bears come in different sizes and are found in different habitats scattered in different parts of the world. Mostly solitary, cases of bears hanging around in groups are considered to be rare, and while many are convinced that bears are nocturnal creatures, the truth couldn’t be farther from that “nocturnal” association, with different bear species known to be diurnal and/or crepuscular.

Given the way bears are depicted by today’s standards of cultural trends and movements, they are often defined as bulky cuddly creatures, but the truth about bears is that they are not really all cuddly.

As one of the world’s bigger land mammals, bears continue to be one of the most well known and well loved creatures.