Post by grrraaahhh on Mar 28, 2011 6:21:53 GMT -9
The bear is omnivorous, but he requires a lot of food. In order to save up enough fat for the winter (about 50 kilograms), the bear eats up to 700 pounds of berries, or up to half a tonne of pine nuts, along with other feeds. In lean years for berries in the northern areas of the bears will diet on crops of oats, and in the south - corn. In poor forage years, some bears attacking livestock, ravage beehives. If the bears' winter hibernation is disturbed it will awaken from its lair; all of its body functions reorganizes and its weight rapidly drops so it seeks out food. The bear in this case turns into a wanderer, or as they say, bear-rod or connecting-rod (shatun ). Connecting rod bear is - a dangerous beast. The bear is irritated and desperate to obtain food. In search of food, the bear will attack almost anything. The bear will cannibalize other denned bears and it is attracted to the smell of human food often going to the camp of lumberjacks, or into local villages. The weakened 'shatun' bear also becomes predatory attacking elk or any other animal.
N.N. Rukovsky paraphrased text.
Above: This shatun bear did not survive the winter.
also.....
From International Bear News:
The “shatun” bear (a non-hibernating vagrant bear) finds a denned bear, kills and eats it. We have recorded three cases of a “shatun” bear cannibalizing a bear sleeping in a den. In years of crop failure of primary fattening foods the “shatun” bears appear in large areas. Among “shatun” bears observed in Yakutia, females with yearlings are absent; apparently the result of the death of their cubs. By the end of November the “shatuns” disappear; they die of exhaustion or freeze. Yakutia literature describes cases of four brown bears dying from exhaustion and frostbite. No periodicity has been determined for the appearance of the “shatuns.” For instance, in 2001, the “shatuns” were observed only in the Kolyma river basin.
www.bearbiology.com/fileadmin/tpl/Downloads/IBN_Newsletters/IBN_May_2002.pdf
Fangs of the bear wiped out, he - not just thin, and dystrophic, and in the stomach had no food. This bear could not lie down to sleep, was a connecting rod and poses a real danger to people.
N.N. Rukovsky paraphrased text.
Above: This shatun bear did not survive the winter.
also.....
From International Bear News:
The “shatun” bear (a non-hibernating vagrant bear) finds a denned bear, kills and eats it. We have recorded three cases of a “shatun” bear cannibalizing a bear sleeping in a den. In years of crop failure of primary fattening foods the “shatun” bears appear in large areas. Among “shatun” bears observed in Yakutia, females with yearlings are absent; apparently the result of the death of their cubs. By the end of November the “shatuns” disappear; they die of exhaustion or freeze. Yakutia literature describes cases of four brown bears dying from exhaustion and frostbite. No periodicity has been determined for the appearance of the “shatuns.” For instance, in 2001, the “shatuns” were observed only in the Kolyma river basin.
www.bearbiology.com/fileadmin/tpl/Downloads/IBN_Newsletters/IBN_May_2002.pdf
Fangs of the bear wiped out, he - not just thin, and dystrophic, and in the stomach had no food. This bear could not lie down to sleep, was a connecting rod and poses a real danger to people.
