The Animal Blog

• Bear saw bikers in road but still liked his odds (Anchorage Daily News)
  http://www.adn.com/news/alaska/wildlife/bears/story/9159529p-9075312c.html
  "A bear waiting for its chance to cut through traffic on the Seward Highway this weekend looked twice but still darted through a group of bikers, and the resulting domino effect sent one biker to a Seward hospital."
• Something is Fishy in Hollywood (Bounty Fishing)
  http://www.bountyfishing.com/blog/2007/07/24/something-is-fishy-in-hollywood/
  "What if your fishing trip is ruined by a bad weather or any frustrating reason? Sit down, relax, and watch one of our fishermen’s cult movies -hereby compared with the well-known blockbusters that inspired them!"
• Mother cat takes seven chicks under her paw (Times Online)
  http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/middle_east/article1784806.ece
  "A cat has succeeded in repressing her predatory instincts by adopting seven chicks to rear alongside her own litter of kittens."

The National Geographic site has a great video of a bear twirling a stick... like a ninja!!

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This polar bear cub was recently released at a German Zoo for public viewing.

... and no, I'm not talking about the University of Maine Black Bears. This hockey team somehow trained a bear to play hockey. How they got it into that uniform is beyond me.