Russian bears (1 Viewer)

[lutz6lucker]

Just to tell you that these photos were shot with a Canon EOS camera (80-300m) and a Leitz Trinovid 8x32 digibinned by Nikon Coolpix885, half a mile from the Russian border in Eastern Finland.
These are 2 two-year-old cubs gobbling fish offal.
Cheers from Geneva

 

[birdman]

Dredged this thread up (in fact it was being viewed by a guest!).

Great photo LutzL - hope you're still around to post more.

Anyway, it reminded me.

Did anyone else watch the Natural History Series "Realms of the Russian Bear", presented by Russia's answer to David Attenborough - Nikolai Drozhdov (if I've remembered the spelling at this remove).

I think it was out in the mid '90s.

I made the eminently sensible decision to buy it when it came out on video.

Brilliant!

 

[Option1]

I remember seeing it and I think it may be occasionally getting a rerun on one of the many Discovery channels here in the US, but don't quote me on that.

Neil

 

[Yve_M]

Haven't seen the series but would like to. What''s the story on Russian Bears Birdman?

Lutzl: Are these youngsters being fed?? They seem distracted from their feeding? What type of bear are they?

 

[HH75]

Hi Eve,
They are Brown Bears(Grizzly Bear is the N.American subspecies of Brown Bear).
Birdman:remember that series,a good few birds featured as well.Had no VCR when it was on,however.
Harry H

 

[Yve_M]

Hi Harry, thanks for replying.

So they are Ursus arctos rather than Ursus americanus or another sub species like the Kodiak bears.

We have 'black bears' which are cinnamon coloured as well (americanus). So the colouring wasn't distinctive enough to to id them and I was looking for the familiar 'hump' on the shoulders. Do these fellas get as large as the Grizzly/Northern brown bear?

 

[seb_seb]

that little bear is smiling!!!