Bear with me here.........

[George-CT]

Just got this sent to me.... and the little blurb about it.... The claws seem way to long on it to me. It would seem like they should wear down. Geo


This Bear was hit on Hwy 64 between Merrill and Medford Wisconson. It was being chased by a pack of wolfs and ran in front of a logging truck. They estimated it was over 750 pounds. Kinda filled the 8'0' bed of the truck.

 

[Micheal_R]

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[Wayne in BC]

not likely it was in Wisconsin. I have had it sent to me twice, first time they claimed it was in the Yukon and second time Alberta. I would suggest that wherever it came from, it was a denned bear that was disturbed by equipment or such, the length of the claws (Black bears have retractible claws) indicate late winter - early spring.

 

[VT Dave]

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[Sunny]

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[George-CT]

about bears. I sure don't but the claws sure seem to long for and animal that moves across the ground. Denned up makes since for sure. We have the black bears here.

 

[Kelley (Texas)]

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[Kelley (Texas)]

if folks had left it alone? If you come across one sleeping in a den, are they easy to wake up? Please have a great day! Kelley (Texas)

 

[Wayne in BC]

it would den up again. But with Grizz all bets are off, they are not true "hibernaters" but just remain in a kind of stupor. I have known of them to wander around in the middle of winter although they do not go far from the den usually unless they are starving. They often do not survive early wakeup in winter because their systems (in my experience and opinion) seem to require green vegetation to kick start their system before they can digest meat. We would not see bears on a carcass for the first week or so after they came out of the den, even though they were around and the meat was available they seemed to fill up on grass and other greenery first.