In the news cycle before the party political conventions there isn't too much of compelling interest, so I turned to local sources for something to write about. Recently I observed an exceptionally large deposit of bear scat in the woods, and that seemed newsworthy since a bear had recently broke into my tent.
Black bear developed from a different species than brown bear. Black bear periodically 'borrow' food items from a tent yet make themselves scarce as soon as possible. While the bear was getting its summer snack I was looking at an Internet photo of a brown bear attack on a tent site outside Yellowstone several years ago when a few campers were injured and the partially eaten corpse of a camper formerly asleep in a tent was found some distance away. The black bear that raided my tent went in through the partially open front door and left only about 70 stitches worth of sewing repairs to the tent that it made as it scrapped out the remainder of a block of mild cheddar cheese from near the side of the tent under clothing.
If one closely observes the bear scat one discerns the textured content from eating branches, leaves and such in order to get to the blueberries without picking them individually-a difficult task when one has large nails (aka claws) on their four paws. I think that bear digestive systems without a fish diet may process more slowly, conservatively, and so after it ate half of a container of fine Danish Orchard jelly and two pieces of bread there was an immediate purgative effect. The bear left the tent relatively soon and with so much sugar probably jogged along the rest of its usual circuit.
Black bear developed from a different species than brown bear. Black bear periodically 'borrow' food items from a tent yet make themselves scarce as soon as possible. While the bear was getting its summer snack I was looking at an Internet photo of a brown bear attack on a tent site outside Yellowstone several years ago when a few campers were injured and the partially eaten corpse of a camper formerly asleep in a tent was found some distance away. The black bear that raided my tent went in through the partially open front door and left only about 70 stitches worth of sewing repairs to the tent that it made as it scrapped out the remainder of a block of mild cheddar cheese from near the side of the tent under clothing.
The bear basically took items that were inessential. The jelly was an extra one in fact that I would have had difficulty doing anything with this year before moving to the next location. I have wondered about interspecies communication now and then, having experienced a few unusual coincidences in the appearance of whales.
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