Secretly Incredibly Fascinating: Brown Bears

Alex Schmidt and Katie Goldin explore why brown bears are secretly incredibly fascinating. Visit http://sifpod.fun/ for research sources, handy links, and this week's bonus episode.

LINKS FOR KATIE GOLDIN:

• Katie Goldin on Bluesky
• @ProBirdRights on Bluesky
• 'Creature Feature' podcast (iHeartRadio)
• When Is a Bird a ‘Birb’? An Extremely Important Guide (Audubon)

RESOURCES USED TO INFORM THE EPISODE'S LAND ACKNOWLEDGEMENT:

• native-land.ca
• U.S. Department Of Arts And Culture
• The True Native New Yorkers Can Never Truly Reclaim Their Homeland (Smithsonian)
• "Finding Lenapehoking" (YouTube / Hudson River Maritime Museum)
• Why Do They Call It Beacon? (The Highlands Current)
• Dutch & Native American Heritage In The Hudson River Valley (National Park Service)

RESEARCH SOURCES:

• Types Of Bears: Brown Bears (U.S. National Park Service)
• Brown Bear -- Ursus arctos (San Diego Zoo)
• Grizzly Bear: Overview (U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service)
• After Living Alongside Humans for Millennia, These Italian Brown Bears Have Evolved to Become Less Aggressive (Smithsonian Magazine)
• Lost history of brown bears in Britain revealed (BBC News)
• How Did the Bears Get Their Name? (Chicago Magazine)
• The Skull of an Ancient Brown Bear Tells a Story of Brutality and Abuse at the Hands of Roman Entertainers (Smithsonian Magazine)
• Polar Bears Diverged From Brown Bears Fairly Recently (Scientific American)
• News: 100,000-year-old polar bear genome reveals ancient hybridization with brown bears (UC Santa Cruz)
• News: How species form: What the tangled history of polar bear and brown bear relations tells us (University at Buffalo)
• The Polar Bears of the Arctic are Evolving in Real Time (Popular Mechanics)
• ‘We made everything bear-proof’: the Italian village that learned to love its bears (The Guardian)
• Grizzly Bears Went Extinct in California 100 Years Ago. Scientists Say They Could Soon Return. (Popular Mechanics)
• The Tamest Grizzly of Yellowstone (JStor Daily)
• Two Brown Bears Broke Out of Their Pen. Then They Ransacked the Honey Stash. (The New York Times)
• The Law Protects Them. The Villagers Fear Them. (The New York Times)
• ASK A WILDLIFE BIOLOGIST: Do Bears Really Eat Honey (Alaska Department of Fish and Game)
• Lithuanian hunters refuse to kill bear that ambled around capital for two days (The Guardian)
• Shocker: “Yeti” poo, bones not actually from yeti (Ars Technica)
• Bear that bit man in Norway roams free after hunt in which wrong animal shot (The Guardian)
• How facial recognition for bears can help ecologists manage wildlife (The Conversation)
• Ground-breaking brown bear research holds great promise (Alaska Beacon)
• Dan, how is bear hibernation different from sleep? (Wyoming Game & Fish Department)
• The Bears of Winter (Alaska Department of Fish and Game)
• Hibernation (The Scandinavian Brown Bear Project)
• All of the Bears Were Fat, but Chunk Was the Fattest of All (The New York Times)
• They logged on to watch the famous fat brown bears. They saved a hiker's life instead (NPR)
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