[blam]

GGG Ping.

[rfp1234]

Bears Repeating.

[NonValueAdded]

Picnic baskets were pretty scarce, though. Sorry, proto-yogi

[fish hawk]

Ayla and I were just discussing this the other night.

[edcoil]

So they have never evolved but man did?

[Does so]

I'm thinking that Early Man had the same sense of awe that us Moderns have of bears. Neat critters.

Not too much info around on the "Dog-Bear" of the Pleistocene.

[org.whodat]

Does that mean that they would have eaten people more slowly?

[TASMANIANRED]

Why would anyone think that an animal with huge canines could be a vegetarian.

[Mike Darancette]

Scientists were surprised by the large number of Paleolithic Picnic Baskets this bear had seemed to gather.

[SunkenCiv]

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	Gods Graves Glyphs	Thanks Blam. Wow, that caption: Studies of the bones and teeth of cave bears, and especially the nitrogen isotopes in their bone protein, have concluded that they were largely vegetarian. Is contrary to the story. Probably some vegan dillhole. Rather than being gentle giants, new research reveals that Pleistocene cave bears ate both plants and animals and competed for food with the other contemporary large carnivores of the time: hyaenas, lions, wolves, and our own human ancestors... the Oase bears and scattered individuals from other cave sites show that they were sometimes as omnivorous as modern brown bears, including North American Kodiak and grizzly bears. The study was conducted by an international group of researchers including Michael Richards of the Max Planck Institute and Erik Trinkaus of Washington University in St. Louis. To all -- please ping me to other topics which are appropriate for the GGG list. GGG managers are Blam, StayAt HomeMother, and Ernest_at_the_Beach
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[coconutt2000]

I don’t know... Things in nature don’t tend to be all that gentle when you interfere with the gathering and consumption of food and water (or mating).

The idea of nature as our friend is so wrong. I look at nature as an adversary who sometimes isn’t trying too hard to kill me. But then again, oh well.