9 Replies to “Out of the Closet: Basque Bears [Dan Collins]”

1. furriskey says:

   December 21, 2006 at 4:24 am

   “If the winter is mild, the female bears find it is energetically worthwhile to make the effort to stay awake and hunt for food,” said Guillermo Palomero

   Cool. I have a roughly similar attitude.

   I see from the article that the bears continue to ‘lumber through the forests’, and I hope we can assume from this that other ursine sylvan activities continue as before. Otherwise we should need to test Benedict for Lutheran proclivities.

2. Dan Collins says:

   December 21, 2006 at 4:40 am

   furriskey,

   Well, given your name I would have assumed you wouldn’t hibernate, much.  Do you suppose that we could just coin the neologism, “ursylvan,” or would that be a barbarism?  At any rate, it might save me a few keystrokes every year.

3. furriskey says:

   December 21, 2006 at 4:43 am

   I think ‘ursylvan’ is a top coinage, it can’t miss.

   Your, while ursylvanism obtains

   furriskey.  (Sleepless in Singapore. Doesn’t have quite the same ring, does it?)

4. Bill D. Cat says:

   December 21, 2006 at 6:48 am

   Gaia is gonna be pissed .

5. Robin Roberts says:

   December 21, 2006 at 6:57 pm

   This is just more global warming alarmist propaganda.  The reality is that the bear in Spain is functionally extinct already and many of the bears in the area have been transplanted from the Balkans and don’t have the same behaviors as native bears.

   Pure bear manure.

6. jon says:

   December 22, 2006 at 3:40 am

   This is just more global warming alarmist propaganda.

   I love global warming alarmist propaganda almost as much as I dig me that anti-global warming alarmist propaganda.  Worldwide Crisis v. Worldwide Totalitarianism Under the E.U. is one battle royale with cheese that I’ll be enjoying for years to come.

   I’m betting on Crisis, in a judges’ decision (no knockout), twelve decades.

7. John Stein says:

   December 22, 2006 at 6:28 am

   Just one litle problem with the story: bears don’t hibernate. They “den up.”

   The bears on Kodiak Island, Alaska, are famous for getting up and strolling around on warm, sunny winter days. They wander around for a few hours and then, since there is little to eat that time of year, they go back to bed. The natives have been observing this for at least a thousand years.

8. Ardsgaine says:

   December 22, 2006 at 11:54 am

   One can only hope that Global Warming is not a myth. We need something to halt the carnage.

   In the meantime, I love the way that the abundance of food for the bears is made to seem a bad thing. That’s some real clever spin, that is.

9. Ardsgaine says:

   December 22, 2006 at 12:13 pm

   What I love more than anything else is all the clever ways they have come up with for making the same anecdotal statement: “My, sure is a mild winter we’re having, ain’t it?”

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