My toddler got a play set with magnets. I can just see his little brain thinking, what fresh magic is this?!?!
When they're hungry in the Spring, they'll eat anything they can grab. There are a LOT more backyard chickens these days, and this Spring the bears reduced the population. One friend had a nice, mobile chicken coop he could haul behind his large truck...one night in May a bear tore it to shreds, ate five or six chickens.https://www.muranochickenfarm.com/20...rom-bears.html
our bears in all probability have longer hibernation periods, hence wake up hungrier? We have zero food sources here when they wake up in the Spring...trash cans and chickens beware.
p.s. just saw a National Wildlife Service article on black bears in NC, it says they are not true hibernators in the state, they just nap for days or weeks at a time..
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No bear poop in our driveway, just possum poop. Apparently, they eat a lot of persimmons.
Yep, our bears do not hibernate. We get to enjoy bear sightings year round. They can get a bit aggressive in the spring, though. I have been at the coast during active bear warnings.
This actually happens. Up near the Arctic Circle pretty significant sleep pattern changes have been observed in people in winter and summer light. Makes sense.
This is anecdotal but I remember a trip to Bethel Alaska one summer and the locals were out hooping at 2 AM on the court most nights…which felt like days.
This made me chuckle from the article - wish there were pictures!
"Once when the kids had a grand ole time whipping a basket full of spoiled eggs at the trees behind the driveway. That night the bear stood at the edge of the woods (taunting my dog) licking the trees for over an hour!"