Talk:Bear JJ1

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This proves Stephen Colbert is right. Bears are godless killing machines.--Kross ^Talk 21:06, 7 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Errrkay?! 68.39.174.238 01:07, 9 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Problembär

is this the first documented use of this delightful term? i think we should keep an eye on it W guice 22:27, 26 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I have never heard the expression before (I am a native speaker of German), but this is, in short, what the German Wikipedia says: The term initially came up in Austrian media several years ago after similar incidents with bears in Austria. Bavarian president Stoiber took up that term again in 2006, categorizing bears in a scientifically doubtful manner into "Normalbär" (normal bear), "Schadbar" (damage-causing bear) and eventually "Problembär". This categorizing resulted in serious as well as humourous debate and has been parodied since. Stoiber, due to the resemblance of his name's last syllable to "Bär", was then dubbed "Stoibär" and "Schlaubär" (literally: clever bear - but rather means something like smartass bear). The author of the German Wiki article suggests that the term might find its way to standard language; a politican of the Liberal Democrats has recently said about our minister for economics, "Some already consider Michael Glos [the minister for economics] to be the "Problembär" of the government, a kind of Bruno for German economy". Hope this helped. MartinSL 08:46, 27 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Name of hunter

I removed the random, un-cited name of the hunter. Either it is a made up name (very likely, since the name has not been given to media yet), then it has no place here. Or it indeed is the correct name, but then it should not be put here without any source, since again, officially, the name has not yet been disclosed yet, as far as I know. --Allefant 20:57, 27 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Well done. There is no need to point out the hunters name, since it is officially still unclear who it really was. Furthermore, he seems to be threatened. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 217.194.34.124 (talk • contribs) 16:10, July 7, 2006

playing with food is common behavior

The article said that killing without eating is uncommon behavior. Not exactly true. Everyone is familiar with pet cats endlessly "killing" a twitching string. Some are familiar with housecats making presents of uneaten small mammals and birds. Wolves, orcas, red foxes, spotted hyenas, spiders, and mink have been documented killing surplus animals as well.

It is likely that this is a survival mechanism, an evolutionary development in becoming a more successful hunter. Folks who don't subscribe to the theory of evolution can attribute this to the predators practicing their hunting skills when game is plentiful, so that they will be more successful when game is scarce.

Looks like Wikipedia may get an article on surplus killing.

RPellessier | Talk 21:15, 4 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Since writing this, I've added the article, Surplus killing. RPellessier | Talk 15:08, 5 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

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