Ursus
Category archives for Ursus
Bear in The Cities
Posted by Greg Laden on April 29, 2012 For the second time in six months, a wild black bear was found wandering around deep in the urban zone in Saint Paul. I’m not sure what happened to the last one, but this one was killed by Saint Paul police under advisement of the Department of Natural Resources. To give you an idea of…
A Field Guide to ALL of the Carnivores! (Almost)
Posted by Greg Laden on November 27, 2011 
Why would you want a field guide to all of the carninvores? They live everywhere, so there is no reason to carry around a field identification guide with ALL of them unless you were going everywhere in the whole world on one trip! Yet, there is such a field guide, Carnivores of the World (Princeton…
Bear Attacks
Posted by Greg Laden on September 27, 2011 Animals eating1 people has always been an interest of mine, and bear attacks are among my favorite. As you know, I’ve got a few of my own stories, though I don ‘t know if I ever told this one. There were two of us canoe-camping in a state park in the Adirondacks. You had to…
Why Was the Grizzly Man Eaten by a Bear? (Film review and commentary)
Posted by Greg Laden on April 4, 2011 Grizzly Man is Werner Herzog’s film about Timothy Treadwell, mostly using Treadwell’s own footage of his time living among grizzly bears (Ursus arctos horribilis) in Katmai National Park, Alaska. Treadwell spent each of thirteen summers up to 2003 mainly in two areas of the park where a community1 of grizzly bears lived and foraged. During…
Knut is Dead
Posted by Greg Laden on March 20, 2011 Cuddly Cub Polar Bear Knut has died unexpectedly, at the age of four. The cause of death is unknown but speculation abounds. In memoriam, please remain silent for a moment while we play the Knut Song:
Another bear maneno in Yellowstone
Posted by Greg Laden on August 4, 2010 Park mangers say they euthanized “an aggressive, habituated, and human-food-conditioned black bear” Tuesday out of “concern for visitor safety.” But it was also a result of stupid people making unnatural food available to the bear. The adult female bear had been seen frequenting the Slough Creek area in the park’s north central area. The bear…
Yellowstone area griz kills one, mauls several UPDATED
Posted by Greg Laden on July 29, 2010 As you know, I have a long standing interest in dogs and bears and in the topic of animals eating people. (SEE UPDATE AT END OF POST)
Seabeck, WA Giant Black Bear
Posted by Greg Laden on November 6, 2008 This is from Seabeck, Washington, across the water from Seattle.