grizzly bear, (subspecies Ursus arctos horribilis), common name for one of the brown bears (Ursus arctos) belonging to the subspecies U. arctos horribilis. The grizzly bear is a massive animal with humped shoulders and an elevated forehead that contributes to a somewhat concave profile. The fur is brownish to buff, and the hairs are usually silver- or pale-tipped, giving the grizzled effect for which the bear is named. The term grizzly bear, however, is often applied informally to brown bears of North America regardless of subspecies.
Large adult grizzlies may be about 2.5 metres (8 feet) long and weigh about 410 kg (900 pounds). Because of their bulk and their long straight claws, grizzly bears rarely climb trees. They are, however, surprisingly agile and can run as fast as 56 km (35 miles) per hour over short distances. Their eyesight is poor, and they have been known to attack humans without evident provocation. Females with cubs are the most aggressive.
Omnivorous animals, grizzlies feed on berries, plant roots and shoots, small mammals, fish, calves of many hoofed animals, and carrion. Food is often cached in shallow holes, and grizzlies dig readily and vigorously in search of rodents. Each spring the bear marks the boundary of its territory by rubbing trees, scratching bark, or even biting large pieces from the trunks of trees. During late summer and autumn, grizzlies accumulate large amounts of fat and then retire to dens in winter. Cubs, most often twins, are usually born in January or February after about six to eight months of gestation.
Formerly living across the Great Plains, the grizzly bear has been the subject of many Native American legends and was one of the mammals reported by Lewis and Clark in their journey through eastern Montana in 1804.
North America, grizzly bears previously ranged from Alaska down to Mexico and as far east as the western shores of Hudson Bay; the species is now found in Alaska, south through much of western Canada, and into portions of the northwestern United States (including Washington, Idaho, Montana and Wyoming), extending as far south as Yellowstone and Grand Teton National Parks. In Canada, there are approximately 25,000 grizzly bears occupying British Columbia, Alberta, the Yukon, the Northwest Territories, Nunavut, and the northern part of Manitoba.
An article published in 1954 suggested they may be present in the tundra areas of the Ungava Peninsula and the northern tip of Labrador-Quebec. In British Columbia, grizzly bears inhabit approximately 90% of their original territory. There were approximately 25,000 grizzly bears in British Columbia when the European settlers arrived. However, population size has since significantly decreased due to hunting and habitat loss. In 2008, it was estimated there were 16,000 grizzly bears. A revised Grizzly bear count in 2012 for British Columbia was 15,075. Population estimates for British Columbia are based on hair-snagging, DNA-based inventories, mark-and-recapture, and a refined multiple regression model.
Around 60,000 wild grizzly bears are located throughout North America, 30,000 of which are found in Alaska. and up to 29,000 live in Canada. The Alaskan population of 30,000 individuals is the highest population of any province / state in North America. Populations in Alaska are densest along the coast, where food supplies such as salmon are more abundant.
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just received a message from my grandma telling me they had to put down my thirteen year old cat
:sadness-abysmal:
:meow-hug: im so sorry comrade. Losing a pet is so fucking hard.
i just pissed clear after pissing dark yellow an hour before without drinking anything in between
this proves that pissing clear is simply a matter of mindset
Once you run out of urine, you start peeing CNS fluid & bone juice. Im sorry Comrade, but you need to go to the hospital to get ur pee replaced.
It’s so important to get your piss changed every 3,000 miles. I usually spring for the synthetic blend
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My sibling who is a Joe Rogan fan just made me watch a docuseries made by some pseudoscientist that was on the Joe Rogan show that believes ancient civilizations were all visited by hyperintelligent ancient white people that taught them how to be civilized and build pyramids :doomer:
Why did I visit?
Edit: and they also bevieve in Jungian psychology
I dunno, I watched that series too and I was hootin an hollerin at the funny crank
:pepe-silvia: COULD THERE BE SOMETHING DEEPER GOING ON HERE??? [dramatic music swells] LIKE ALIENS???
also the way he spent the first 3 episodes setting up how he was being PERSECUTED by the EVIL ESTABLISHMENT and called crazy! Well would a crazy man pin every single technological development of the last 15000 years on a mythical civilization referenced once by Plato as a rhetorical device and/or just a piece of rumour-mongering???
Today at the shelter we served a Thanksgiving dinner and I learned about this food called ambrosia? With like jello and marshmallows and...mayo? Anyways I, spring_rabbit, am now quite certain that the crimes of this guilty land can never be purged away but with blood.
Like really, what the fuck is this? CW: not vegan and also kinda gross
If you replaced the mayo with cream cheese, greek yogurt, whipped cream, and vanilla extract in proportions that made it frosting-adjacent then that would be prime
At that point it’s just not the same lol. Ship of Theseus, vegan edition.
looks like a scandinavian dessert(maybe it's just in Denmark, not sure) That's a 'rå-creme' which is basically an uncooked pastry cream made with egg yolks, whipped with sugar, finished by folding whipped cream into it. Served with cut fruit and topped with dark chocolate shavings. Mayo is basically egg yolks and oil so I dunno... I guess you could replace the yolks in the pastry cream if you were deranged enough.
Is that salad a side for savory things or served as a dessert?
As a kid who loved Greek mythology, ambrosia was very disappointing.
As a kid who loved
Percy Jackson, I mean, Greek Mythology, I agree.Hey Percy Jackson is cool and the author is not a terf if I recall correctly. I wish Zeus would come down and smite every last ounce of Western ambrosia
Rick Riordan is awesome. He recognised how white and straight his books were and rather than doubling down and rewriting history (Dumbledore was always gay, Hermione was never white, but I’m never gonna actually show/write either of these), he literally sat down and wrote more books to address that stuff AND created RR Presents which promote other mythologies from around the world written by African, Asian, Latin American etc writers, often women.
I’m trying to figure out when ambrosia went off the rails. Historic recipes from 1877 through 1949 are just fruit (mostly oranges) and coconut with maybe some added sugar.
Why wont they ever criticize capitalism? My dudes you bitch about 'greedy ceos' all day HOW HAVE YOU NOT PUT THIS TOGETHER
Re: the outrage over the nth pokemon game in a row being bad. And yes all my irl friends are libs send help
This happens so fucking often.
CEOs bad. Corporations bad. State bad.
But capitalism good???????
I had a friend rant about intellectual property laws and I listened to him before I said, 'you know who has some cool opinions on property and the law? Marx.'
He disagreed out of hand and so I'm ready to refer to Marx next time he rants about stuff that's been discussed over a century ago.
Was watching a let's play of Scarlet and the guy playing it was having fun. Someone in the comments was shitting on the let's player for "Giving $60 to a greedy company". Someone had replied "Hey man, some people like the game. it's not even that bad. What games do you like anyway if you're so great?" the guy said back "Dark Souls"
Ah yes, Dark Souls, published by the small, indie, notoriously not greedy Bandai Namco
The liberal brain worms are real. Imagine thinking 1. That there is such a thing as a good corporation, and 2. That ruining people's fun is standing up to greedy CEOs in some way.
I hate Christmas and more so now since my mom passed around the same time, but I will defend Mariah Carey's song all I want for christmas is you because it's a song about wanting a loved one, a person, and not some commercial thing, it feels sentimental and at least tolerable. Santa Claus is Coming To Town is straight up child abuse.
Was there discourse about all I want for Christmas is you? Or just generic annoyance with giving to hear every Christmas song on repeat for a month straight in a shared office environment?
:didnt-kill-himself: Santa Claus didn't kill himself
fuck black friday tomarrow's going to be goth girl friday :marx-goth:
BLACK FRIDAY BAYBEEEE YESSSSSS!!! I just fought the crouds and saved $50 dollars on a big screen TEEVEE!!!
Yeah ok maybe I had to drop kick an 87 yo woman and maybe I punched a baby in the face but dammit I just saved $50 dollars on a big screen TEEVEE!!!!
You woke your boater family up at 2 am to go wait in line at target and get into a fight with another boater as you followed him back to his lifted f-150 to sucker punch him in the back of the head for snagging the tv you wanted and now you have charges being filed against you.
I slept in.
We are not the same.
Talked to my work crush yesterday, so that was fun. I'd be happy if we were just friends, but I'm trying to figure out why I'm drawn to him so much.
Saw someone use a soyjak as a counter argument, god i hate the internet.
Disco too good, its just so so good, holy fuck, what the fuck why is it so great, why isn't every skill here an emote? :lt-kitsuragi:
My wife is playing it for the first time after ive been recommending it for months. Shes been giving me updates while i'm at work, but yesterday i walked in after my shift and i saw her on the couch, laughing so hard she was crying. I looked at the screen and saw the great skua incident, and immediately started to burst out laughing. 10/10, videogames can stop now.
Yeah because USians literally cannot conceive of actually rebelling against their boss beyond ending their employment.
A slightly more paranoid person would call it an op.