Wholistic Fitness

it’s that time of the year in Durango…
been mowing the DandyLions and have been stepping in bear cub scat!  that’s right…for the first time in four springs since moving back to Durango,  my backyard is puncuated with bear CUB scat!  there is always a lot of nocturnal sounds here, beside the lusciously deep Ujjaya of the still wild, Animas River still flowing strong with spring runoff…

as the Keeper of Chicken Beings, the lowest rung on the Meet-And-Eat Ladder of Animal Beings (Chickens are kinda like the terra firma equivalent of plankton in the oceanic realm)…it doesn’t take much to disturb me from my usual few hour sleep when i hear our Chicken Beings startled and (rightfully) scared from direct emotional scarring courtesy of Raccoons, Foxes, and Bears attempting to dismantle my Chicken Coop for a tasty midnight treat…

5 black bear facts I bet you didn’t know. Got any of your own?

1. Unlike many mammals, bears can see in color.

2. The most accurate way to determine the age of a bear is to count the rings in a cross section of its tooth root under a microscope.

3. Bears can run up to 40 miles per hour, fast enough to catch a running horse.

4. A bear’s sense of smell is around 100 times greater than a human’s.

5. One variation of the black bear is a white bear called the Kermode, ghost, or spirit bear. These bears are very rare. Native Americans believed these white bears had supernatural power.

special thanks to Pine Needle Mountaineering in Durango for this entry!