The Official Random Video Thread!

[woodworkingboy]

Are black bears considered carnivores? Our bears are not, though I guess that they will eat about anything. Usually they want to maybe take a swipe and get away, but being considered the best climbers among the species, they have some very awesome claws. They really work through the oaks in their territory, able to get up surprisingly high. Easy to see where they have been in the trees pulling the limbs to get the leaves and acorns, the big piles of scat too.

 

[MasterBlaster]

All bears are omnivores.

 

[woodworkingboy]

I see. Good way to survive.

 

[MasterBlaster]

Check out this shit!

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[NeTree]

Well alrighty then...

 

[CurSedVoyce]

Well I guess in a pinch ... Or ... well... Fug it I live in the woods

 

[flushcut]

So let me see if I got this right it is an out house in a garbage bag?

 

[MasterBlaster]

Heck yea! You can pinch a loaf anywhere! Ain't it awesome!!!

 

[woodworkingboy]

You save money by buying a four pack. We export.

 

[Rborist1]

I have had many bear encounters over the years, most times they were just curious. The most dramatic encountered happened while camping many years ago. I went to watch a bear in a neighboring camp site and ended up getting within 6 ft of the large black bear with only a spruce tree seperating the 2 of us, he was "huffing" something fierce. I scaring him away by making noise. I was pretty calm but my wife was craping bricks.

 

[NeTree]

We see bears here fairly frequently. A pistol shot gets them moving in a hurry.

 

[Rborist1]

When we go back packing we usually take an airhorn and bear bangers with us, as carrying a hundgun is not an option for most Canadians.

 

[stig]

2 years ago in Sequoia N. P. I was on a before sunrise hike with my wife.
She was leading ( I walk way faster than her, so when she leads, I can adjust my speed to hers) and going around a 24 foot DBH ( Tal,k about "going around a tree!" she ran rigth into a bear.

It was head deep into a log loooking for eats, so it didn't hear us.
My wife is NOT comfortable around bears, because she can't read their body language ( You should see her around wolves, whose lingo she speaks fluently!) so I stepped up to the bear and let go of a " Viking on Amanita muscaria scream".Poor thing took off like a rocket.

 

[Paul B]

Stig, can you bottle up a scream like that and market it?
I carry bear bangers (I should test fire one, one of these days), sometimes bear spray and usually a whistle or bear bell on the pack. So far so good.

 

[stig]

You are in Grizzly country.
That is a whole other matter.
Compared to Grizzlies, black bears are kinda cute.

My wife and I hitchhiked through B.C, North West territories and Yukon to Alaska and back about 25 years ago, we got REALLY tired of Grizzlies!

If you do a one or two week backcountry trip, they are an interesting feature, but after 3 months of daily bear precautions they suck!

 

[Paul B]

Actually I am too far south for Grizzlies I think, black bears are pretty common though.

 

[Dave Shepard]

Nova movie on the Parthenon. Very impressive.

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/ancient/secrets-parthenon.html

 

[Rborist1]

We have griz out here, I have some great pics of a 2 year old feeding on berries...............watched him eat for about an hour last summer in the back country.

 

[woodworkingboy]

I believe that there have been some notorious grizzlies, ones that showed repeated very aggressive behavior towards humans. One in particular, his victims had an annual gathering at some place where they all came armed and waited for him to show up.. Of course it was more symbolic that thinking that he might actually appear. They seemed to know that it was the same bear that had hurt them. Some guys in wheelchairs.

 

[canadiantreeman]

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[NeTree]

LOL @ 4 minute Jeep... they must be from Dorchester.

 

[woodworkingboy]

Wow, pretty animals!

 

[Mr. Sir]

Nova movie on the Parthenon. Very impressive.

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/ancient/secrets-parthenon.html

My oldest daughter is over there now; she says it's amazing! She even got a blessing from the Pope while in Rome.

 

[Dave Shepard]

I've been watching a few of the NOVA movies this weekend. I never knew I could watch them on line. I have the trebuchet one. I know at least two of the people involved in making one of the trebs.

 

[Rborist1]

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