Buck

Shuttled over to the Village....while waiting for the Shuttle back, Two Bucks were about...pics....and, that was pretty much it for out and about....cloudy cool snow about from last night....Shuttled over to Siberia for dinner...sighted Mama Doe and Two Fawns in the Oak Grove along the way.. overheard.talkabout on the way about Stanford Bear study...brb...oh...search turned up a study on Black Bear gene flow, and highways...link

http://www.jstor.org/pss/3873059

brb...and that above link links to this:

http://www.bearbiology.com/

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here I get a little closer...this story was about awhile go...what I'm looking for is how adolescent three year old Bears learn how to break into cars and such on their own, rather than being taught by their Mama Bear, or being genetically disposed to car hunting!...oh... here's the one about the minivans:

SELECTIVE FORAGING FOR ANTHROPOGENIC RESOURCES BY BLACK BEARS: MINIVANS IN YOSEMITE NATIONAL PARK

STEWART W. BRECK,* NATHAN LANCE, AND VICTORIA SEHER

http://allenpress.com/system/files/pdfs/emails/2009/10/mamm-90-05-1041-1044.pdf

brb....and next a cool article:

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In Whistler, if a bear doesn’t get into something humans are guarding, it’s usually because too many other bears got there first.

Bears Among Us

by Darcy Frey

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/25/magazine/25bears-t.html?pagewanted=all

from above:

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It’s commonly thought that once bears associate humans with a tasty, high-energy meal — once they’ve learned that hitting a trash compactor or, for that matter, just two brimming bird feeders can deliver a day’s worth of calories — they’ll never go back to digging up carpenter ants. But as long as wild food is available, bears actually prefer it. When Lynn Rogers, a biologist who has worked with Minnesota black bears for 40 years, radio-tracked bears with easy access to human food, he still found bears working day and night for wild calla leaves a short distance away. Stephen Herrero, an environmental scientist at the University of Calgary and author of the definitive “Bear Attacks: Their Causes and Avoidance,” cites a similar study from Yellowstone showing that when white-bark pine nuts were plentiful, human-bear conflicts in the national park dropped right off.

unquote

well...that was fun to read...a clip of Bear 99, or 66, eating grass beside the Fen Boardwalk is up on youTube....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w488j83e3Io

the overheard Stanford story for sometime...in the morning overheard another about 'plastic electronics'...brb...

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New applications include smart windows and electronic paper. Conductive polymers are expected to play an important role in the emerging science of molecular computers.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Organic_electronics

hmmph...technology married to an intelligent species will co-evolve....

meanwhile, Deer Mousey has made a home of the wetvac, finding the vacuum hose to it's liking for a tunnel, I imagine...the Shuttle is a curious world....and fine hour spent riding about the Valley in an evening SnowFall!!...oh!...helped neighbor roll the Bear Box back over again...