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  "tags": [
    "Katie Goldin",
    "Alex Schmidt",
    "alaska",
    "romania",
    "brown bears",
    "Science",
    "Canada",
    "animals",
    "Russia",
    "bears",
    "Katie Goldin on Bluesky",
    "@ProBirdRights on Bluesky",
    "'Creature Feature' podcast (iHeartRadio)",
    "When Is a Bird a ‘Birb’? An Extremely Important Guide (Audubon)",
    "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)",
    "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)",
    "Secretly Incredibly Fascinating: Teddy Bears",
    "Secretly Incredibly Fascinating: Cinnamon"
  ],
  "textContent": "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.\n\n**LINKS FOR KATIE GOLDIN:**\n\n  * Katie Goldin on Bluesky\n  * @ProBirdRights on Bluesky\n  * 'Creature Feature' podcast (iHeartRadio)\n  * When Is a Bird a ‘Birb’? An Extremely Important Guide (Audubon)\n\n**RESOURCES USED TO INFORM THE EPISODE'S LAND ACKNOWLEDGEMENT:**\n\n  * native-land.ca\n  * U.S. Department Of Arts And Culture\n  * The True Native New Yorkers Can Never Truly Reclaim Their Homeland (Smithsonian)\n  * \"Finding Lenapehoking\" (YouTube / Hudson River Maritime Museum)\n  * Why Do They Call It Beacon? (The Highlands Current)\n  * Dutch & Native American Heritage In The Hudson River Valley (National Park Service)\n\n**RESEARCH SOURCES:**\n\n  * Types Of Bears: Brown Bears (U.S. National Park Service)\n  * Brown Bear -- Ursus arctos (San Diego Zoo)\n  * Grizzly Bear: Overview (U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service)\n  * After Living Alongside Humans for Millennia, These Italian Brown Bears Have Evolved to Become Less Aggressive (Smithsonian Magazine)\n  * Lost history of brown bears in Britain revealed (BBC News)\n  * How Did the Bears Get Their Name? (Chicago Magazine)\n  * The Skull of an Ancient Brown Bear Tells a Story of Brutality and Abuse at the Hands of Roman Entertainers (Smithsonian Magazine)\n  * Polar Bears Diverged From Brown Bears Fairly Recently (Scientific American)\n  * News: 100,000-year-old polar bear genome reveals ancient hybridization with brown bears (UC Santa Cruz)\n  * News: How species form: What the tangled history of polar bear and brown bear relations tells us (University at Buffalo)\n  * The Polar Bears of the Arctic are Evolving in Real Time (Popular Mechanics)\n  * ‘We made everything bear-proof’: the Italian village that learned to love its bears (The Guardian)\n  * Grizzly Bears Went Extinct in California 100 Years Ago. Scientists Say They Could Soon Return. (Popular Mechanics)\n  * The Tamest Grizzly of Yellowstone (JStor Daily)\n  * Two Brown Bears Broke Out of Their Pen. Then They Ransacked the Honey Stash. (The New York Times)\n  * The Law Protects Them. The Villagers Fear Them. (The New York Times)\n  * ASK A WILDLIFE BIOLOGIST: Do Bears Really Eat Honey (Alaska Department of Fish and Game)\n  * Lithuanian hunters refuse to kill bear that ambled around capital for two days (The Guardian)\n  * Shocker: “Yeti” poo, bones not actually from yeti (Ars Technica)\n  * Bear that bit man in Norway roams free after hunt in which wrong animal shot (The Guardian)\n  * How facial recognition for bears can help ecologists manage wildlife (The Conversation)\n  * Ground-breaking brown bear research holds great promise (Alaska Beacon)\n  * Dan, how is bear hibernation different from sleep? (Wyoming Game & Fish Department)\n  * The Bears of Winter (Alaska Department of Fish and Game)\n  * Hibernation (The Scandinavian Brown Bear Project)\n  * All of the Bears Were Fat, but Chunk Was the Fattest of All (The New York Times)\n  * They logged on to watch the famous fat brown bears. They saved a hiker's life instead (NPR)\n  * Secretly Incredibly Fascinating: Teddy Bears\n  * Secretly Incredibly Fascinating: Cinnamon\n\n",
  "title": "Secretly Incredibly Fascinating: Brown Bears"
}