“What else does a bear do in the woods?”* asks investigator Don Davis, answering his own question by alerting us to this new study: “Behaviour of Solitary Adult Scandinavian Brown Bears (Ursus arctos) when Approached by Humans on Foot,” Gro Kvelprud Moen, Ole-Gunnar Støen [pictured here], Veronica Sahlén, Jon E. Swenson, (2012). PLoS ONE 7(2): e31699. The […]
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In pursuit of Shakespeare’s pursuing bear
Tom Levenson pursues the parlous question of Shakespeare’s exiting bear. Levenson writes about the book Verdi’s Shakespeare, by Garry Wills: There, in the first chapter, Wills made mention of Winter’s Tale, and its alpha and omega of stage directions: “Exit, pursued by bear.” … Wills tells me — laconically, first, in the body of his text, writing […]
Videos of Troy and the Suits of Armor
Some further looks back at the work of Troy Hurtubise, 1998 Ig Nobel Prize winner in the field of safety engineering. Troy was honored that year for developing and personally testing a suit of armor that is said to be impervious to grizzly bears. Troy has a new book out; we reviewed it here recently. […]
A Device to Deter a Bear
When a big bear approaches, some people choose to quietly stroll away. To give them an extra measure of safety, Anthony Victor Saunders and Adam Warwick Bell invented what they call a “pop-up device for deterring an attacking animal“. Saunders, a London-based mountain climber, and Bell, a California patent attorney, applied for a patent in […]