Grizzly bear kills man near Yellowstone....

[celtophile]

[QUOTE=Bugbear;892306]No, for real. I was looking at getting a bear fur sporran, don't think the ones at the STM have silver cantles, to go with a Bear Tartan kilt. QUOTE]

Just to make sure you are aware the "Bear Tartan" is associated with gentelmen who enjoy the company of other gents who are large and hairsuit.

I appologize if you are already aware of this but I don't want you to have any unwelcome attention in your kilt.

[Bugbear]

[QUOTE=celtophile;893537]

No, for real. I was looking at getting a bear fur sporran, don't think the ones at the STM have silver cantles, to go with a Bear Tartan kilt. QUOTE]

Just to make sure you are aware the "Bear Tartan" is associated with gentelmen who enjoy the company of other gents who are large and hairsuit.

I appologize if you are already aware of this but I don't want you to have any unwelcome attention in your kilt.

No apology necessary.

I manage a social group here on XMTS for the LGBT related Bear Tartan.
I am also aware that there are people with the last name "Bear," and that calling oneself a "Bear" or using bear totem does not mean that you are or want to be associated with the LGBT Bear tartan. I don't know what to do about this other than point out, from time to time, the Bear Tartan is LGBT related.

I understand the LGBT related Bear community is associated with gentlemen "large and hairsuit"... Um, don't worry about it...

* It looks like MacMillan of Rathdown was who brought it up first in this thread, just for the record.
It really isn't the subject of the thread, and I'm sorry for having made an issue of it.

[Lallans]

[QUOTE=Bugbear;893541]

No apology necessary.

I manage a social group here on XMTS for the LGBT related Bear Tartan.
I am also aware that there are people with the last name "Bear," and that calling oneself a "Bear" or using bear totem does not mean that you are or want to be associated with the LGBT Bear tartan. I don't know what to do about this other than point out, from time to time, the Bear Tartan is LGBT related.

I understand the LGBT related Bear community is associated with gentlemen "large and hairsuit"... Um, don't worry about it...

* It looks like MacMillan of Rathdown was who brought it up first in this thread, just for the record.
It really isn't the subject of the thread, and I'm sorry for having made an issue of it.

This is so far off the thread topic as to be indictable, but last Sunday I caught quite a funny sequence on The Cleveland Show (Fox) which involved a real (cartoon) bear mistakenly visiting some sort of bear bar in NYC...?

[Kiltboy]

a Bear tartan kilt, wearing a Bear sporran...... thats almost unbearable...LOL

Hmmmm.... a Bear kilt with a armadillo sporran..... now we're talking, y'all.

Of course, where to you find an armadillo sporran? That's a custom job for sure.

[BoldHighlander]

Grizzly suspected of killing man shot and killed

[Lallans]

Attacks on humans seem to be more or less expected grizzly behaviour, but it seems strange in a tranquilized bear. It must have been resentful of the darting experience and looking for payback, or fearful of a repeat experience. Black bears are far less likely to attack but are somewhat more worrisome because they live in great numbers around human settlements, here in Canada and parts of the USA. Playing dead is almost the only (unarmed) defense against grizzlies but when hapless tenderfoots try that with black bears, the bear sees a good thing and proceeds to chow down. The best tactic with them is to act threateningly and if it comes to it fight back like a maniac- they have been driven off by 10 year old girls. I wouldn't care to live in an area with a mixed population of grizzlies and black bears: you could doom yourself in the time necessary to check the critter's anatomy.

On the sporran issue, it has to be said that one bear could make perhaps dozens of sporrans whereas small animals like mink etc are one life per. Bear fur, the humane choice!

[BoldHighlander]

Attacks on humans seem to be more or less expected grizzly behaviour, but it seems strange in a tranquilized bear. It must have been resentful of the darting experience and looking for payback, or fearful of a repeat experience.

Yeah, there was some thought that this might've been an unusually aggressive griz'. I also wonder if the victim, not knowing it was nearby startled a frightened & rather confused bear coming out of his stupor, who then attacked(?)

Black bears are far less likely to attack but are somewhat more worrisome because they live in great numbers around human settlements, here in Canada and parts of the USA. Playing dead is almost the only (unarmed) defense against grizzlies but when hapless tenderfoots try that with black bears, the bear sees a good thing and proceeds to chow down. The best tactic with them is to act threateningly and if it comes to it fight back like a maniac- they have been driven off by 10 year old girls. I wouldn't care to live in an area with a mixed population of grizzlies and black bears: you could doom yourself in the time necessary to check the critter's anatomy.

You summed it up nicely. Every bear expert I've heard or talked to has pretty much said the same thing. They say in the case of being attacked by a black bear to fight like hell. The only problem, as you noted, is where there is a mixed population is that you might only have seconds to figure out which breed your dealing with...

On the sporran issue, it has to be said that one bear could make perhaps dozens of sporrans whereas small animals like mink etc are one life per. Bear fur, the humane choice!

...and with the meat you can make a ton of great jerky too!

[Inchessi]

a Bear tartan kilt, wearing a Bear sporran...... thats almost unbearable...LOL

I can't believe you used that pun....I would be emBEARassed.

I saw a news clip that stated the Grizzly was a sow with two cubs. Like throwing kerosene on a fire.

As far as the Bear Tartan. I don't know the affiliation, but it reminds me of a Speech I had to give covering Salmonid spawning and positive riparian impact. I thought I would find a picture of a bear, Google gave lots of pictures, and it wasn't what I thought they would be.

[BoldHighlander]

I saw a news clip that stated the Grizzly was a sow with two cubs. Like throwing kerosene on a fire.

Was that the incident with Jack Hanna?

[Dixiecat]

hey have been driven off by 10 year old girls.

Not quite a 10yr old girl, but...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gi7tN...eature=related

I did a summer in Northern Ontario as part of a geological mapping party. Yeah, bears of any kind? Scary.