Comments | cs_girl: Bear! (and a ground squirrel...)

cs_girl

Bear! (and a ground squirrel...)

Mar 20, 2016 22:23

Ever since N has purchased a zoom lens for me, it has been my dream to take a picture of a bear. I carry the zoom lens with me everywhere on the off chance that I'll get a lucky encounter. The most popular trail of the Yosemite National Park would probably be the last place I would have expected to see a bear, but here I was, standing among dozens ( Read more... )

wildlife, ca, trips

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ex_juan_gan March 21 2016, 03:44:15 UTC

73%

cs_girl March 21 2016, 04:35:38 UTC

To be honest, I would feel much better if I consistently identified the bears at 100%. My survival in case of bear encounter depends on that...

be_unafraid March 21 2016, 04:11:46 UTC

Hmm, I got 80% on the test, apparently by intuition because I did not look up the characteristics of black bears vs. grizzly.

Those are great photographs you have there!

cs_girl March 21 2016, 04:34:38 UTC

Wow, good job! :-) The differences are very subtle: the shape of the ears, the hump, the length of nails...

Thanks :-)

kitya March 21 2016, 04:41:07 UTC

in this case it is easy, because there is no grizzly bear in CA

cs_girl March 21 2016, 04:47:49 UTC

Yup, read about it on the Yosemite's official website too. No grizzly bears, only black bears.

kitya March 21 2016, 05:00:09 UTC

grizzly bears were completely wiped out by hunters everywhere in USA except Alaska.
currently in lower states you only have a chance to see them in Montana and in Yellowstone, where they were re-introduced.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grizzly_bear#/media/File:Ursus_arctos_horribilis_map.svg

There is a "theory" that grizzly might sometimes wonder into north-central corner of wa too, but there is as much grizzly there, as there are Sasquatches.

:(