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Man and Bear |
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| Loved and cherished, feared and hated, cute and cuddly, majestic, monstrous and ferocious, no other animal on earth has captured our hearts and our imagination like the Brown Bear. Legends, movies and television have depicted the bear as everything from a cuddly toy to a raging monster. Coastal Brown Bear, Grizzly, European Brown Bear, they are all the same species, Ursos Arctos. Respected and admired by human beings living among them, they have inspired stories that have both fascinated and frightened us. Brown bear once roamed across most of the northern hemisphere, but in the last 150 years we have succeeded and eliminating them from most of their original territory. Our relationship with the brown bear is an ambiguous one. Ranchers hate them, hunters covet them, they fascinate researchers, and some grassroots activists have mistakenly considered them to be living teddy bears, gentle and harmless. How dangerous are these animals? Is there an actual threat or is it merely the stories about this great predator that creates bear-anoia? Is it possible for humans and bears to co-exist in the same area? Today we know more about bears and their behaviour. We have electric fences to protect our animals, bear-safe trashcans and guidelines for human behaviour in bear country that all cut down on potential conflicts. We know that the bear is not our brother, neither is it our enemy. But will we use our newfound knowledge to save this magnificent animal, or will we continue to push it into oblivion? | ||||||
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