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silvermouse
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Thanks to our excellent and responsible congresscritters' passing of a budget extension FatBearWeek has not been cancelled this year.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/sep/30/us-government-shutdown-alaska-fat-bear-week-contest
https://explore.org/fat-bear-week
bear cam here: https://www.explore.org/livecams/brown-bears/brown-bear-salmon-cam-brooks-falls
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I hear the meat is fatty but still tastes good.
Trapped in the People's Communits Republic of Massachusetts.
Had a bear shoulder sauerbraten slow cooked in a cast iron dutch oven over an open fire years ago. Kind of like pork.
Da Bears.
^ me
I know, You're a big dog and I'm on the list.
Let's eat, GrandMa. / Let's eat GrandMa. -- Punctuation saves lives
It'll be fine once the swelling goes down.
^maybe me
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I know, You're a big dog and I'm on the list.
Let's eat, GrandMa. / Let's eat GrandMa. -- Punctuation saves lives
It'll be fine once the swelling goes down.
couple days ago in Wears Valley
"If you do not read the newspapers you're uninformed. If you do read the newspapers, you're misinformed." -- Mark Twain
Did you ride through Cades Cove?
Yes. Stayed in Wears Valley, address was for Sevierville. Rode everywhere. A friend of mine was involved in the Bike Week at Maryville. Had a great time.
"If you do not read the newspapers you're uninformed. If you do read the newspapers, you're misinformed." -- Mark Twain
https://mashable.com/article/fat-bear-week-katmai-bear-story
Just saw a bear in my backyard
Had one hit and killed by a car the other night.
-- Winston Churchill
"LET'S GO FRANCIS" Peter
Do Florida bears hibernate in the 'winter'?
I forgot they had bears. Damn! One more thing to consider when I'm urinating on the side of the road in FL.
Good question, Edward.
Copy/paste:
Florida black bears do not hibernate, but rather go into a semi-hibernation state known as torpor. In Florida they may do so only during extremely severe winter weather. Torpor tends to be more common in females who den when they are producing cubs. The female may stay in her den for a few months.
Trapped in the People's Communits Republic of Massachusetts.
Thanks, Shawn. Similar to snow-birds then.
good photo essay about Katmai and the bears
https://www.washingtonpost.com/travel/interactive/2023/10/10/photos-fat-bear-week/
And the winner of the fat bear contest is #128, Grazer:
Mmmmmm, bear.
Trapped in the People's Communits Republic of Massachusetts.
In my experience it's grizzly and stringy. Up in Alaska, if you ate it late in the year, it was unpleasantly fishy too. Earlier in the year it didn't have that fish taste.
Either way, I'll pass.
Neat sculptor
https://www.thisiscolossal.com/2023/10/brian-mock-scrap-metal-animals/
Saw this last year at Mounts Botanical Garden in West Palm Beach, FL.
Nope
Nolite Oblivisci Peniculus Dentes