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"It's not 100%, but based on the genetic evidence we have, there's a likelihood that he bred as a 31-year-old male," Thompson said.
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"You'll skin them and there's like terrible bruising, but there's no real punctures," Thompson said. "They have so much strength in their jaws they can kill an animal by basically gumming it."
By the time Turnbull trapped the male bruin, he was down to an estimated 170 pounds, with three bulbous nubs for canines and no other teeth at all. Grizzly biologists use a 1-to-5 body condition score when they capture animals in the Yellowstone region.
"On the form, it was written zero," Thompson said.
JSKolache said:
Jeez they captured it 3 different times? Why don't they just leave them alone...
me too old bear, me too.Quote:
It's not 100%, but based on the genetic evidence we have, there's a likelihood that he bred as a 31-year-old male
Snowflake epitomized.JSKolache said:
Jeez they captured it 3 different times? Why don't they just leave them alone...
I don't see where the govt put him down??shiftyandquick said:
https://trib.com/news/state-and-regional/grizzly-was-oldest-documented-in-greater-yellowstone-area/article_2bdc24e7-760b-5f16-86ad-ac43181a7031.html
It's in the article.jsdaltxag said:I don't see where the govt put him down??shiftyandquick said:
https://trib.com/news/state-and-regional/grizzly-was-oldest-documented-in-greater-yellowstone-area/article_2bdc24e7-760b-5f16-86ad-ac43181a7031.html
Can you confirm. It looks like he was trapped, tranquilized and let go.
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The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service's grizzly bear recovery coordinator, Hilary Cooley, made the final call to euthanize the withered grizzly, which was old enough to be dealing with sensory deficits. Relocating the animal, even though he had avoided known conflict for decades, "wouldn't have been the right thing to do," Thompson said. The 34-year-old grizzly drew his last breath on July 30, 2020.
"It was sad that we had to put him down," Thompson said, "but ethically there was nothing else that could be done."
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The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service's grizzly bear recovery coordinator, Hilary Cooley, made the final call to euthanize the withered grizzly, which was old enough to be dealing with sensory deficits.
I bet PETA takes her off their Christmas card list.ttha_aggie_09 said:Quote:
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service's grizzly bear recovery coordinator, Hilary Cooley, made the final call to euthanize the withered grizzly, which was old enough to be dealing with sensory deficits.
ttha_aggie_09 said:
Grizzly or Black bear?
My bad, i sure didn't think it was that invasive. Maybe a tag and a retrieval or something. I like the idea of wild predators roaming around, but at some point it seems like a thumb is on the scale if humans keep effing with them over, and over, and over. I mean did they catch him every year and throw him a birthday party? At some point that blurs the line between wild and glorified pet.YellowPot_97 said:JSKolache said:
Jeez they captured it 3 different times? Why don't they just leave them alone...
They captured him way more than that. How do your think science is done? The dude lived to 34 obviously it didn't hurt him to be captured.