1 Old school VHF trackers Today, there's two main types of tracking which biologists use for bear collars - VHF and GPS. VHF stands for Very High Frequency and is also known as "radio tracking". It's a much older system than GPS, and when it first appeared in the 1960s, it revolutionised tracking technology. By 1979, one company claimed to have sold 17,900 … [Read more...] about 10 Secrets Of Brown Bear Tracking
Kodiak Bear, The Hugest Brown Bear Subspecies
1 Kodiak bear basics To most people, Kodiak bears are the biggest, cuddliest and most Teddy-like bear species living on Earth. Most people know them as the stars of those viral youtube videos, with waving bears in zoos who are secretly hoping for people to throw them some salmon. Scientifically though, Kodiak bears (ursus arctos mittendorfi) are … [Read more...] about Kodiak Bear, The Hugest Brown Bear Subspecies
Bears and Their Salmon Obsession: 10 Facts
1 How much salmon do they eat? The bottom line is that to make it through the frigid hibernation season, a bear must eat a year's worth of food in six months. There's no room for kicking back and doing adverts for Chobani yogurt (like Whopper the bear). Consequently, the hungriest bears in the world can devour 30 salmon a day, which translates to … [Read more...] about Bears and Their Salmon Obsession: 10 Facts
John “Grizzly” Adams: The True Full Story
1 The origin story Grizzly Adams was born in Medway, Massachusetts on October 22nd 1812, to the original Adams family (not the TV one!) that included the 2nd US president John Adams and the 6th US president John Quincy Adams. Surprisingly, his real name wasn't Grizzly, but John Boyden Adams. He grew up in a rural household as the 2nd of 7 siblings, and by … [Read more...] about John “Grizzly” Adams: The True Full Story
10 Facts About The Bear-Wolf Relationship
1 Places where they overlap Unlike the endlessly debated gorilla-bear battle, interactions between bears and wolves have been witnessed thousands of times in the wild. If mankind had never existed, then wolves and bears would nearly always coexist, as their natural habitats are nearly identical - cool northern hemisphere regions, preferably with loads … [Read more...] about 10 Facts About The Bear-Wolf Relationship