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Post by grrraaahhh on Dec 6, 2011 21:05:17 GMT -9
Looks like an Ussuri brownie. I am wondering if this is 'Doris' the female brownie?  Update confirmation, we are talking about the same bear (both articles). Thank you Sarus. |
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Post by warsaw on Dec 10, 2011 1:09:22 GMT -9
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Post by brotherbear on Dec 25, 2011 1:54:11 GMT -9
President Theodore Roosevelt spoke of lions and grizzly bears.
Before he became a dedicated conservationist, Teddy was an avid big game hunter. In his own words, Theodore Rossevelt compared the musculature of a lion with that of a grizzly bear.
I have sought this quote with no success.
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Post by warsaw on Dec 25, 2011 3:08:43 GMT -9
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Post by Deleted on Dec 28, 2011 2:08:07 GMT -9
Warsaw, I believe that the sentence saying 'polar bears are the most vicious' could probably be directed towards humans.
While the barren ground grizzlies might be the most aggressive bears overall, polar bears are considered the most dangerouse bears overall probably because they are the most likely to readily attack humans being the most carnivorous of all bears.
Whats your opinion?
Anyway, I believe a tiger,lions, and sloth bear would not stand a chance against a healthy polar bear or an average size to large brown bear.
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Post by grrraaahhh on Dec 28, 2011 5:19:04 GMT -9
  Source: Clyde Beatty. |
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Post by warsaw on Dec 29, 2011 2:10:35 GMT -9
"... The marquee attractions of Victorian circuses, felines commanded the lion's share of top-quality food. The menu du jour of Alexander Fairgrieve's famous traveling menagerie offers some sense of the pecking order among the various animals. Elephants had to content themselves with "hay, cabbages, bread and boiled rice, sweetened with sugar" while the big cats feasted on "shins, hearts, and heads of bullocks." So much meat did the lions and tigers of the great circuses consume, in fact, that their fellow carnivores the bears were forced to await the onset of "very cold weather" before they were similarly provisioned. Until such time, they subsisted on bread, sopped biscuits, and boiled rice.To be an ursine understudy to feline stars was a sad fate, indeed. Should you wish to express dietary soliditary with the dancing bears of Victorian circuses, this recipe for boiled rice with cheese, which appears in The Helping Hand Cook Book (1912), will have you looking forward to winter's chill..."www.theausteritykitchen.com/2011/09/circus-animals-nutrition.html Toledo Zoo - Polar Bear Skulls The skull on the right is a healthy bear, the skull on the left is of a bear fed a poor diet www.flickr.com/photos/fkalltheway/4487583366/in/photostream |
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Post by grrraaahhh on Dec 29, 2011 16:30:56 GMT -9
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Post by grrraaahhh on Dec 29, 2011 16:50:59 GMT -9
A REVIEW OF LIONS & POLAR BEARSACT II: ALFRED COURT'S MIXED ANIMAL ACTS - LION KILLS POLAR BEAR: Fritz W. Schulz presenting one of Alfred Court's mixed animal act at Blackpool's Tower Circus (1947) — Photo: Christopher Schulz Collection. www.circopedia.org/index.php/Alfred_CourtBecause some of our audience may not be familiar with the account, there was an incident where a lion killed a polar bear in one of Alfred Court's popular mixed animal acts. Full access to relating materials may not be possible for a couple of months but other people are welcomed to contribute. To be continued.....
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Post by warsaw on Dec 31, 2011 5:28:22 GMT -9
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Post by warsaw on Jan 2, 2012 7:59:25 GMT -9
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Post by grrraaahhh on Feb 8, 2012 7:50:01 GMT -9
Fight Between a Tiger and a Grizzly.
From Chicago Times' New York Letter
The Atlanta Constitution Nov 7, 1874.
On one occasion Lent was the proprietor of a traveling circus and menagerie. One day he met a man out west who had a grizzly bear for sale. As the animal was a splendid specimen of a young grizzly, Lent purchased him, and after he got him he found himself in the position of the man who drew the elephant. There was but one cage in the menagerie that could contain the bear, and that already bad an occupant in the shape of a large and finely developed Bengal tiger. Lent told one of his partners that he was going to quarter the grizzly with the tiger.
"The devil you are," was the answer. "Why, that tiger will make a square meal of him before you can wink." "AH right! If he does I'm satisfied," says Lent. "You look after your tiger and I'll take care of my bear."
The grizzly was accordingly lifted into the cage, the tiger having previously been driven into the opposite corner by the application of hot irons. Then all the employees of the circus gathered to witness the tight. The animals sighted each other at the same instant; but while the tiger's eyes blazed with fury and his tail lashed the bars in his excitement, the grizzly simply nodded in a sleepy mannег, аs if in recognition of the presence of the other beast, and crouched against the bars waiting developments. They remained as far apart as the cage would permit for at least five, minutes; but every moment the rage of the tiger seemed to increase, while the bear seemed to be sinking into a deep slumber. At last the tiger began to growl and slide toward the bear, moving from side to side of the cage as he did so. The growling aroused the bear to life, and he had just time to measure his enemy, when, with the rapidity of lightning, the tiger sprang forward and alighted upon his head and back. For a moment there was a terrible howling from both animals. as " they rolled over and over in the cage, and they separated for an instant, the bear seeming to have shaken off his antagonist. During this brief cessation of hostilities it was feared that the bear had got decidedly the worst of the combat, as he was bleeding freely from several gaping wounds.
The backer of the tiger was delighted, and wanted Lent to consent to having a stop put to the fight. "No,”. answered he, "let them fight, and I'll bet on the bear." So at it they went again, and there was terrible fighting for several minutes. It finally ended in the tiger giving several mournful howls, and when they were separated he slunk away to his corner as meek and submissive looking as an animal could be. After that day the bear bossed that cage, and if the tiger became unruly he received a blow from the grizzly's paw that set him to thinking over past events at once.
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Post by sarus on Feb 25, 2012 17:57:16 GMT -9
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Post by sarus on Feb 25, 2012 18:08:45 GMT -9
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Post by grrraaahhh on Feb 26, 2012 5:44:21 GMT -9
- - - - - - - - - - - - - Article with the same case and the same copied text but from a free source (even so, if you do not feel comfortable with that, Grrraaahhh, you can delete it anytime; I will understand  ). - - - - - - - - - - - - - There is no need to delete, thank you for finding a free online article copy of the event. Thanks also for being understanding of the larger issue over balancing transparency complaints against copyright concern which in this forum is something I struggle with a lot. |
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