Berne is the capital city of Switzerland. Berne means bears in Swiss speak. You can see the Swiss bears at the new Bear Park in Berne. The old bears had to live in a pit. It was good that people could throw snacks to the bears, but the park is nicer, with a big swimming pool. But bears are really hard to find in Switzerland so Berne’s bears are really from Norway, so they don’t speak Swiss. Bear Park in Berne
Traveling in Germany and need that stuft toy teddy bear fix away from home? Check out the Bear Paradise Shop on the old city Romerburg square.
Knut, the polar bear at the Berlin Zoo whose cuddly mug and antics combined with the sad story of his being rejected by his mother and raised by human hands, brought Polar Bears renewed world attention, is dead. About 650 people were watching as he seemed to just keel over in his pool.
Berlin Mayor Klaus Wowereit called Knut’s death “Awful. We all held him so dearly.” Knut was only 4 years old. The cause of death is unknown with an autopsy still pending. Other polar bear cubs have since come along and Knut had faded in his worldwide celebrity as he aged and his cuteness waned. It happens to all of use, I suppose.
Some recent rumors have it that Knut will be stuffed and put on display. That’s okay, some of the best bears I know are stuffed.
The BBC One station in the UK is premiering a new Polar Bear Documentary with preview videos on youtube – Polar Bear Vids The bears are spied upon by remote cameras disguised as snowballs and ice cubes. But Polar Bears are pretty darn smart. They know ice cubes don’t run around with electric motors!
Okay, at the beginning of December, Polar Bear Cookies began to appear at Starbucks coffee shops. Cute and white frosted, the bears had red frosted neckties. Oddly the ties were in the shape of the math symbol Pi. What does this portend. What is the Polar Bear Cookie Conspiracy?
Ah, not only did the bears appear, but also small stuffed furry bears in holiday clothes. I hesitate to say Christmas because we know how politically explosive that is. The cute little bear meant to attract the eyes of innocent children are reading miniature books titled “The Mouse Writer”. Now why would a bear be reading a mouse book. Could that be a connection to Disney’s famous mouse? Is he writing under a pseudonym? Is there a secret plot that connects Starbucks Coffee and mice, or a frozen animator in hybernation. Is it a message from a cryogenic freezer beyond the pale?
And now the mystery thickens, the plot deepens. The Polar Bear cookies have disappeared. Where did they go? What are they planning? And why are stuffed bears selling Thanksgiving Blend Coffee? Could they be plotting some revenge with turkeys? And can polar bears do advanced math?
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Bearbuddys Volunteer for Space Travel
Astronomers have announced they believe they have found the “Goldilocks” Planet. That’s the long sought after planet that isn’t too hot and not too cold, not too dense, but dense enough for an atmosphere and just the right distance from its star to be in the “habitable zone,” so it can support liquid water and therfore some form of life. Though, there may not be enough to support forests and therefore bears. But Maybe. The Planet is called “Gliese 581g” located in the constellation of Libra. It’s one of 6 planets circling the Red Dwarf star Gliese 581.
The planet is a lot closer to its star than Earth is to our sun, and bigger than the Earth, but the planet stays with one side constantly facing the star so the Goldilock’s zone is in the middle temperate zone band between the light and dark side. Scientists supposedly figured all this out by reading the radio telescope signature of the star and how it wobbles. They can’t actually see the planet, but deduce its behavior based on the star’s gravitational wiggle factor.
Alfred feels the three bears always got the raw end of the deal in their case with that blond curly haired little housebreaker and thinks some investigation is in order before this mysterious radar wiggle is declared an official “Goldilocks” planet. In fact, the Bearbuddys here now bravely volunteer to be the first Bears in Space to go check it out.
Or watch the BearBuddys In Space Movie
BearBuddys With Prehistoric Friend
The BearBuddys recently took a trip to the La Brea Tar Pits and the Page Museum in Los Angels. They met up and palled around with one of their prehistoric bear relatives. He’s extinct, but they still had a good time. The tar pits are still there, with replica of mastadons stuck in the tar along Wilshire Boulevard. Excavations of old bones stuck in the deep layers of tar are going on. The George C. Page Museum in the park where the tar pits are is filled with bones from the Ice Age (just like the animated movie) when animals would get trapped in the bubbly tar pits on the surface. More animals would attack them and they’d get stuck, too.
Prehistoric Lion Skeleton at Page Museum
Sabre Tooth tigers, pre-historic lions and wolves, giant ground sloths, Mastadons and Mammoth skeletons can all be found there. Very educational. Only one human has been found in the tar, and not many bears, but a whole bunch of wolves! I guess wolves are kinda dumb. Alfred and Leander even found some Sabre Tooth cat and Woolly Mammoth stuffed animal friends there in the store, along with books on prehistoric times. La Brea Tar Pits and Page Museum
According to Blogger Sean McLachlan 75,000 Teddy Bears are left in hotels rooms every year. And that’s only one hotel chain, the TravelLodge. And its not all kids. A survey by the chain to examine the problem shows at least 25 percent of businessmen take a Teddy Bear with them to sleep with on business trips. So much for that all night internet chat. Can’t we all just really care for our bears.
A training exercise for bear hunting dogs called “Bear Baying” has a defenseless declawed black bear chained to a fence or tree while dogs bay and bark at it until it stands on his hind legs so hunters can more esily shoot it in the belly. When one set of dogs is done they bring in another, tormenting the bear over and over. Apparently held along with other dog events. South Carolina law says bears may be kept captive for bear baying as long as there’s no repeated contact. They get around this by pulling one set of dogs off, then sending on another set. They bring the same bear back again as well. Ninety two bears were killed in South Carolina last year. Come on South Carolinians, not man enough to face a bear without a pack of hound dogs?
In Ohio, a bear mauled and killed his young caretaker. The bear was kept by Sam Mazzola an animal “trainer” who showed exotic animals at carnivals and other venues. The owner lost his license after offreing to let people at the annual Cleveland Sport, Travel & Outdoor Show to wrestle a Black Bear, billed as “Ceasar the Wrestling Bear”. This brought down the protests of the PETA orginization. The 24 year old caretaker assistant, Brent Kandra, was feeding the bear when it got angry and attacked. The reason for the attack is not known. The caretaker had worked with the bear and others for 6 years. Complaining neighbors said the property where Mzzola ket four tigers, eight bears, two lions and other exotic animals was like living next to a zoo. The bear has been given a reprieve from execution while the incident is being investigated
Update: the bear was put down.
