Research Paper On Spirit Bears

“Kodiak bears are a unique subspecies of the brown bear, living exclusively on the islands in the Kodiak Archipelago and have been isolated from other bears for about 12,000 years.” (Daele 2010)

In 2004 the black bear mother with her white cubs also know of Kermode bear. But there is a one in a million chance of the Kermode bear to be born that is how rare there are. But yet there are still extremely rare near The British Columbia islands.

Spirit bears or Kermode bears and are found off the coast of the British Columbia in a rain forest.The kermode bear is not a Polar bear or a albino.The Kermode bear is a rare white black bear. the bear was named after Francis kermode.

Ever wonder what animal can identify if salmon is male or female by taste? What bear is white but not albino? It’s the rare Kermode bear from the precious Great Bear rainforest located in British Columbia. With only 400-600 left, read on to learn why it is endangered and how we can help save this significant bear from extinction.

Prior to the late 1900s they roamed throughout Florida, over 53,000 square miles of land. From the Panhandle to the Keys, to the southern edges of our neighboring states. At that time an estimated twelve to twenty thousand black bears roamed throughout Florida.

The white phased black bear was said to have traversed barriers of the sea during the last ice age when glaciers covered most of northwest British Columbia. When temperatures started to rise, and glaciers started to retreat it is believed that the white bear was then isolated on the islands off the coast of BC. The white coats would suggest an adaptation to the white snow for hunting, however if that was the case, the evolutionary trail should have left the recessive gene behind when it was no longer useful to them in the temperate forests. Most research that is done on the Spirit bear is to try and understand the polymorphism of this species and how it has come to last among a low frequency in a minute area. Evidence now suggest that the reason for the white fur is actually a very important adaptation for the bear and is still very useful even in the array of

Fair Bear has gone on another adventure, this time in Georgia. He has decided to visit the Ocmulgee National Park and Preserve Initiative. This includes the Indian Mounds, the Bond Swamp Wildlife Refuge, the Ocmulgee River, and historic Muscogee land.

The Black Bear was a bear tribe that lived in the northwest of the United States. They were around Niagara Falls and the Adirondack Mountains. The Iroquois bear tribe was not just one tribe, but there was five. There was the Mohawk tribe, Oneida tribe, Onondaga tribe, Cayuga tribe, and Seneca tribe. The bear tribes were not together, they were against each other. The bear tribes hated each other, they were fight over this special spot right in the middle New York. This part of New York had the fall so the bear tribes could catch the biggest fish and it also had to sharpest trees so the bear could scratch there furry backs, but that was not the only thing, they also wanted dominance over each other. The reason the Black Bear Iroquois tribes really wanted this spot, it was the best way to communicate. When bears rub against the trees they are not just scratching, they are also communicating.

The Spirit Bear, or actually called the Kermode bear, lives in the Great Bear Rainforest in the Northwest area of the Canadian province British Columbia. Half way up the coast is where they live. “Scientifically, the white ones, along with their closest black relatives, belong to a subspecies of black bear.”(Smithsonian) The big white bear is probably around 300 lbs. It is cold where they live, and their fur definitely helps them keep warm. They hunt for things like salmon, and just eats it up. Right now, the some estimates say there are only around 100 of the specie left. They are very rare and definitely one of the rarest type of

The moose were spotted in the area near of The Albion Hotel just before they safely progressed into a swamp along James

Black bear attacks occurred the most, however, in the Vancouver area with 5 attacks in the past 16 years. The unit is not very large, but it is highly populated by human with not so many bears and so it is interesting to see such results from the data. The grizzlies had the most number of attacks in the 16 years in the Rocky and Central Purcells Unit of BC with a count of 4 each. Both areas are relatively less populated by humans with a good density of bears. This result shows that many of the black bear attacks occur more in human populated areas compared to grizzly bears which may be true because majority of the human population inhabit the southern regions of BC. Grizzlies, inhabit areas further up north while the black bears are found throughout BC, but most common in coastal and southern regions. Herrero and Higgins paper in 1999 also found similar findings where grizzly bears inflicted injuries in backcountry areas whereas black bears attacked in the more front-country closer to

The polar bear, the largest land carnivore in North America, one of the largest animals in the world and a favorite at zoos worldwide, has, over the years, adapted to its harsh Arctic environment. The appropriately named ‘ursus maritimum’ or sea bear usually lives between 15 and 18 years in the wild and spends most of its life on ice. It is the most recent of the eight bear species. The first polar bear was a brown bear subspecies, with brown bear dimensions and brown bear teeth. The polar bear evolution was rapid due to the small population and extreme pressure to survive. Even today, the polar bear continues to evolve to better adapt to the harsh realities of Arctic life.

Now onto the Yeti, which is said to reside in the cold Himalayas, is the most talked about and feared of the two legends. Dubbed ‘The Abominable Snowman’, there was a misinterpretation of the name that the people who lived by the Himalayas, and a translator famously messed it up and gave it an alternate name. More people say they have seen the yeti while climbing the Himalayas, while most of these claims were admitted to be hoaxes, people have taken photographs that look like they could be either real or fake. A CNN news reporter, Laura Smith-Spark, stated that a genetics scientist discovered that they found her that related that of an ancient polar bear back some 40,000 to 120,000 years. While it could be possible that it evolved, some people personally think that the polar bear is still alive, and hiding, or they just found some hair that the last few left.

Some polar bears live in different areas but all polar be live in countries that ring the arctic circle and some of the environments that the polar bear can live in include Canada, Russia, The United States, Greenland and Norway. The reason polar bears live in these environments is because all of these environments are cold, snowy and icy. A polar bear has a blubber which keeps the polar bear warm in the cold weather

According to a researcher who has lived closely with black bears for most of his adult life, “Black bears have killed 61 people across North America since 1900. This no longer worries me... ...One of the safest places a person can be is in the woods”(Bear Center,