Jacques of all Trades

Wapusk, which means ‘white bear’ in Cree, is one of Canada’s newest national parks. The 11,500 square kilometre park, created in 1996, sits on the western edge of Manitoba’s Hudson Bay. Over 1,000 of the famous white bears live on and around the sea ice - ideal for hunting ring seal. Last year, most of the 1,300 tourists visiting Wapusk, inaccessble by road, viewed the bears’ denning areas by helicopter.

Canada’s National Parks via kateoplis

How pandas were created

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Boxer Gus Waldorf boxing against a bear. The bear won despite his handicaps.

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The picture appears to be from some sort of human vs. animal competition. At the same competition a woman raced a seal.

At first glance, I thought this was the world’s most dangerous game of “parachute.”

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New Jersey State Wildlife officials catch a tranquillised male bear in East Brunswick. Zig-zagging across half of New Jersey in what appears to be an increasingly forlorn search for a mate, the lonely black bear has been captured by wildlife officials in no less than six towns in little over a year, each time being released into a state wildlife area. Picture: REUTERS/ Patti Sapone/The Star-Ledger

Great sculpture, but I’d hate to work on the other side of those third floor windows!

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I see

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Bear bares all in bare knuckled brawl with Ice Bear, who barely escaped alive. 

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R.I.P., Knut.

(Photo of Knut the polar bear making his debut at the Berlin Zoo in 2007 by Arnd Wiegmann / Reuters via MSNBC.com)

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Two grizzly bear cubs spar with each other in this photo shot by professional wildlife photographer Andy Rouse during a three-week trip to Katmai, Alaska during the heart of the salmon spawning season.

NOT PENNY’S BOAT!

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Picture: Sussi Kober/Aalborg Zoo

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Picture: JUDITH MALLOCH / BARCROFT MEDIA

Pondering bear ponders.

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The Eating Habits of Bears by vonplatypus

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This seems a little too close for comfort.

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Photograph: Sergey Gorshkov/solentnews.co.uk

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Picture: ANTON AVERIANOV / CATERS NEWS (via Pictures of the day: 16 December 2010 - Telegraph)