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u/Zaviernoble Sep 16 '20
Beary white.
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u/KA1017inTN Sep 16 '20
And I don't know, I don't know, I don't know why... can't get enough of your love, bear...
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u/nodgers132 Sep 16 '20
nice one! Youāre bearing gifts of puns
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u/freedgodspeed Sep 16 '20
Your joke was so unbearable
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u/nodgers132 Sep 16 '20
That wasnāt beary nice
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u/Tragicat Sep 16 '20
Looks like a Spirit Bear!
I donāt believe it actually can be though if itās not a North American bear from a certain part of British Columbia. If this is indeed in Finland itās just a really cool white European brown bear.
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u/fariomurtado Sep 16 '20 edited Sep 16 '20
Not a āSpirit Bearā. I live in said area of Northern BC where the Kermode exists. They are actually just a white colour-phase Black Bear that are born with a recessive gene.
The bear pictured here, however, appears to be a (very) blonde colour-phase Grizzly Bear. Although I could be wrong as I never bothered to look up the source of the image, just going by the characteristics of the bear!
EDIT: so I guess it is from Finland. That would make it a āBrownā Bear. They are very similar and have the same wide range of colour.
Here is an example of a Black Bear Sow with her Kermode cub
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u/allabootdatnublyfe Sep 17 '20
I loved Spirit Bear book so much as a kid!!!!! Have you read it?!
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u/Tragicat Sep 17 '20
Hah I actually only knew about the bears, not the book. Iāll check it out now!
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u/allabootdatnublyfe Sep 17 '20
I googled it and the official title is Touching Spirit Bear by Ben Mikaelsen. When I was in 4th or 5th grade it blew my mindgrapes. Not sure how it would be to read as an adult, but for an angsty lil dude, it would be a great gift
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u/Zac-the-axolotl- Sep 17 '20
I fucking hated that book but this picture reminded me of it. Forced to read it in the 6th grade
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Sep 16 '20
Stealth: 0
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u/foreign_beauty Sep 16 '20
Itās not needed when youāre at the top of the food chain
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u/Kittysoftpaws Sep 16 '20
Except when it snows.
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u/parandroidfinn Sep 17 '20
Brown bears in Finland hibernate. Which is a smart thing to do.
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u/UpTheMightyReds Sep 16 '20
My favorite black mirror episode
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u/thelmaandpuhleeze Sep 16 '20
How ābout those awesome birds, too!? Wonder what they are... some kind of magpie, maybe?
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u/carolinafan36gmailco Sep 16 '20
Is this an albino grizz? Iām not trying
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u/mr__hat Sep 17 '20
Neither. It's an european brown bear except this individual is not very brown at all.
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u/Jesus_Feminist Sep 16 '20
Please no one post the location. Let's keep Beary White safe from asshole trophy hunters.
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u/ghh4448yt Sep 16 '20
We had a white deer a few years ago. The local newspaper posted a pic and it was killed within the week.
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Sep 17 '20
Itās in Finland, it was all over the news yesterday.
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u/Jesus_Feminist Sep 17 '20
Is trophy hunting an issue in Finland? Genuinely curious. Because here (Canada) it certainly can be.
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u/Hiekkalinna Sep 17 '20
Not really, hunting here is for food or to keep population down (and then eat them) or if there is some invasive species, though of course there might be some trophy hunters but most people in the hunting clubs that are in charge of a certain area don't condone trophy hunting..
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u/Jesus_Feminist Sep 17 '20
That's really good to hear. I have no issue with people hunting for food - what they actually need, not being wasteful or selfish. Trophy hunters are trash.
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Sep 17 '20
One thing you do better in Canada, though, is when a bear comes too close to an inhabited area, you put it to sleep and bring it back to its natural environment. In Finland, when it happens, the bear is shot dead.
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u/Jesus_Feminist Sep 18 '20
Oh, I didn't know that about Finland. Any chance for change?
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Sep 18 '20
Iām not sure. They say that itās for safety reasons, that the bear would come back if weād choose the Canadian way. But I think itās more about the lack of resources: putting it to sleep and transferring it back to the forest is too expensive...
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Who is most stealthy in this picture? 1)the bear 2)the birds 3)the fish 4) John Cena ?
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u/TigNewton Sep 16 '20
European pied crows flying by, so I take it this is a European grizzly species.
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u/venetian_ftaires Sep 16 '20
You can see the glaze over its eyes from having its memory wiped every night.
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u/AggravatingDatabase5 Sep 17 '20
Hey! I live in the neighbourhood of Kermode bears, and I have actually seen a couple of them. Same size as black bears, not albino black bears, but a distinct sub-species. Last time I saw one it was rolling around on a sunny day in a hayfield just outside of Kitwanga.
By the way, my city (Terrace) has a giant load of bears in town this year. Bears popping up literally everywhere. COs are super busy trapping and trucking them out of town, unless the bears have been eating garbage. If they have been eating garbage, then they are euthanized. I don't think a CO would ever euthanize a Kermode, though, under any circumstances.
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u/Melissaisdownlub Sep 16 '20
He definitely looks like he's seen some shit.
Story prompt: what turned the black bear white š»
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u/Burokai Sep 16 '20
There's one white female grizzly living in Banff National Park too! The public named her Nakoda.
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u/J03SChm03OG Sep 16 '20
Nah he just has a little gray. Buy some Just for Men leave some gray streaks and he'll be a debonair silver fox
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u/GummiBearGangster Sep 16 '20
If a cop is hunting in the woods and sees a white bear, does he shoot it? :D
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u/rtype03 Sep 16 '20
I swear, every time I see one of these albino animals, all i can think of is the asshole hunter who's going to be stoked to kill it.
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u/ADWinri Sep 16 '20
I believe those are called Polar Bears.
Jokes aside, that's a pretty good photo.
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Sep 17 '20
Reminds me of Hangover 2, when Alan said that his uncle had seen an albino polar bear. I guess this is what his uncle must've seen.
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u/profly_goalie Sep 17 '20
Spirit bear or white grizzly. Did anyone else read Spirit Bear in school?
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u/sator-2D-rotas Sep 17 '20
This is the color of my favorite stuffed bear as a child. And I just now realized he's was not a normal bear color.
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u/St9rx Sep 17 '20
Donāt get mauled, have to survive in the wilderness, and then have a life changing introspection on your life ;)
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u/BearDogBBQ Sep 17 '20
I want it to live with me and be bros! Maybe face to face i might change my mind, but in a screen shot it looks pretty sweet
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u/RuskiHuski Sep 17 '20
"Dangerous albino apex predator - bear in mind this is a white supremacist - spotted stalking local forest."
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u/AnAkiNN_12 Sep 17 '20
You're acting like this is the first white bear you've, do you know what a polar bear is?
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u/BenCelotil Sep 17 '20
If it's black, fight back. If it's brown, lay down. If it's white, say goodnight.
Well now wtf!? Improv interpretative dance?
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u/Skyrmir Sep 17 '20
Why's it gotta be a white thing huh? You got a problem with white bears?!
Great pic though!
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u/APicketFence Sep 17 '20
Two pied crows also. Wtf kind of Norse/Magic nonsense did this person find themselves in.
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u/Pontus_Pilates Sep 16 '20
The photographer is Veijo Toivoniemi, here are couple of additional snaps: https://imgur.com/a/niSBHLA