Sunday, October 22, 2017

How do Black Bears decide where and when to den up for the Winter?.........."Bear biologist Ben Kilham, author of the recently published IN THE COMPAY OF BEARS, tells us that the bears may investigate denning sites as they travel throughout the year".............”Bears will remain out and about as long as good food sources remain available"...... "But once cold weather settles in and snow blankets the ground – or there’s simply nothing left to eat – they take to dens they’ve already prepared for the winter"............"When choosing a den, security is the most important thing"..... “It has nothing to do with warmth"............... "They carry their warmth with them"..... "Favored denning sites include hollow trees, if a bear can find one big enough – about three feet in diameter".............. "Bears will also excavate dens under tree stumps, below the root mass of a blown-over tree, and beneath brush piles"............ "Sometimes they use rock dens, typically along the base of a ledge"...... "Some bears simply create ground nests, usually in areas of dense softwood, where there is some shelter from falling snow"..............Do bears actually hibernate or just "den up'?"....... ."Whatever you want to call it, the following occurs: Their body temperature drops a few degrees below normal, and their metabolism slows considerably, but not to the extent to qualify bears as “true hibernators"...... "They do not defecate or urinate while they are in their dens"....... "By twitching their muscles through the winter, bears maintain strength, and they’re able to transform fat and urea to protein"............. "Their fat cells also release leptin, a hormone that prevents loss of bone mass".............."Bottom line is that Bears go to bed fat and strong and wake up skinny and strong"

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Thursday, October 19, 2017

The busiest Freeways in the USA are in Los Angeles and the 101 Freeway that traverses my community is now on record to have seen Puma-55(P55) do something that no one has ever seen happen---He crossed the highway twice within the past three months, once in August successfully going north into the Santa Susana Mountains and last week again, this time just north of me in 1000 Oaks, now back in the Santa Monica Mountains looking for a mate in his natal birthplace..............So essential to get the Wildlife Overpass constructed at the Liberty Canyon/Chesbrough exit in Agoura Hills so that genetic inbreeding can be halted via new Pumas coming and going to spread revitalizing genes to the dozen or so "Cats" left in the City of Angels

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Wednesday, October 18, 2017

It is not surprising that a recent study of indigenous people in the Jurua and Uatuma regions of the Amazonas, Brazil reveals that large primates and mammals are virtually absent in and around native communities.............Lewis and Clark observed during their epic exploration of the American West in the first years of the 19th century that Wildlife seemed to be absent in the regions where Indian tribes lived and(conversely) thrived in the "no-mans-zone" between tribes who were at war with each other.............Bill Ripple(Co-Author of THE LANDSCAPE OF FEAR paradigm with John Laundre) and Andrea Laliberte put forth in their 2003 WILDLIFE ENCOUNTERS BY LEWIS AND CLARK: A SPATIAL ANALYSIS OF INTERACTIONS BETWEEN NATIVE AMERICANS AND WILDLIFE----"We believe that overhunting before Euro-American contact and the introduction of the horse, which heightened the effects of hunting, may have been major contributors to the historical absence of some species that are present in the archaeological record"............. "The results show considerable human influence on wildlife even under relatively low human population densities"............."In a buffer zone between the Chippewa and Sioux Indians in Minnesota, deer were plentiful in the area between the warring tribes; however, once a truce had been established, the buffer ceased to exist"................. "Deer were hunted extensively again, their numbers declined rapidly, and a famine ensued (Hickerson 1965)".................. "Another example of an ecological buffer zone is the demilitarized zone that separates North and South Korea".................. "Numerous plant and animal species that were previously considered extirpated, endangered, or threatened thrive in this heavily fortified 4-kilometer (km) by 250-km-long corridor, although they are absent on either side (Kim 1997)".................. "Areas between territories of warring native groups, which served as animal preserves, existed on the central plains of North America in the 1820s and 1830s"......... "Different tribes hunted in these areas, but none was strong enough to control them"....... "Therefore, most of those areas were not occupied year-round, and animals sought them out as refuges"................ "With the disappearance of these “neutral zones,” the bison decreased in numbers (West 1995)"...................So are Indigenous peoples past and present really the environmentalists that have been put forth by Hollywood, Left leaning Professors and Politicians or were their understanding and use of the resources around them tied into their "Druid" spiritual beliefs, simply believing that the "resources they depended on for life would always be there?...........You might want to invest in a copy of THE ECOLOGICAL INDIAN by Sheppard Krech III.............Excellent book for debating this topic(below some information from that book)

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Tuesday, October 17, 2017

Remember that South Dakota Puma who wandered clear across the Country in 2011 and ended up dead, hit by a car on a Connecticut Highway.................Well, now we have confirmation that a year ago, in June 2016, in Petersham, Massachusetts, a Puma attacked a horse.............Two reputable Wildlife Labs have confirmed the DNA from the hair and blood at the scene of the attack was indeed from a Puma of North American Origen.................Now we are wating to see where the DNA points in terms of the Puma's natal birthplace.............There is still no evidence of a breeding population of Pumas(outside of the 100-200 in Florida and an undisclosed number in the Big Bend section of West Texas) east of the South Dakota Black Hills and the Nebraska hill country.................However even with liberal Puma hunting quotas in these easternmost colonies, "Prospectors" from those populations continue to show up in Michigan, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Iowa, Illinois, Kentucky, Tennessee and elsewhere in the East..................We have the room for them to roam up and down the Appalachians, in our Upper Midwest forests and the "river highways" of our "Bread Basket" states.............Will we ever have the will to re-introduce them above and beyond waiting a 100 more years for some chance male/female prospector "hookup" in our eastern woodlands?

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Reports On The Trail: Cougar confirmation in Massachusetts Wednesday, October 04, 2017   Although it seems like old news by n...
Monday, October 16, 2017

"Coyote fathers are totally involved in the raising of their youngsters".................."Below, dad and five-month-old son spend a few moments watching the goings-on around them before Dad then grooms the pup -- probably removing ticks -- and then son prods Dad for some food, unsuccessfully"---Thanks to the great Coyote Yipps blog for this entry

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WordPress.com yipps:janetkessler posted: " Coyote fathers are totally involved in the raisi...