Airdale Posted December 28, 2016 Share Posted December 28, 2016 The linked article is from our local newspaper, the Helena Independent Record. I'd never heard of these critters before, and according to the article they weren't known to science until 1943, and there are only about 40 remaining. http://helenair.com/lifestyles/outdoors/rarest-bear-montanan-tracks-gobi-grizzlies/article_cbb43025-0c86-5529-8a63-7fbca4d0ee2e.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PBeaton Posted March 10, 2017 Share Posted March 10, 2017 Huh ! Cool find Airdale. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
norseman Posted March 11, 2017 Share Posted March 11, 2017 Very cool. Plussed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SWWASAS Posted March 11, 2017 BFF Patron Share Posted March 11, 2017 Interesting that a grizzly sized animal can eek out an existence in a near barren part of the world like the Gobi especially since it does not eat anything very large. Makes one wonder what the PHD on one of the bigfoot documentaries was smoking when she stated that there was not enough food in the Pacific North West to support an animal the size of bigfoot. The PNW is like food paradise compared with the Gobi. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PBeaton Posted March 11, 2017 Share Posted March 11, 2017 ^No kiddin' eh ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gigantor Posted March 12, 2017 Admin Share Posted March 12, 2017 Good article, plussed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MIB Posted March 12, 2017 Moderator Share Posted March 12, 2017 I wonder, from the standpoint of DNA, how close those are to the "apparent 40K year old polar bear" that Sykes found. MIB Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Airdale Posted March 13, 2017 Author Share Posted March 13, 2017 I hadn't thought about a possible connection to Sykes' "Yeti-bear". What first came to mind on reading the article was the scarcity of food issue vis-a-vis the argument that a creature the size of Sasquatch would not find sufficient sustenance to maintain a breeding population in any area of the U.S., including some of the semi-arid places in eastern Montana and the Dakotas where they have been reported. It also raises questions about what constitutes a "breeding population". That part of the world is so challenging to penetrate even without the political complications, it makes me wonder what other interesting things remain undiscovered; perhaps there are remains of some ancestral squatch more closely related than Gigantopithecus Blackii. If anyone hasn't had the opportunity to read any of Roy Chapman Andrew's fascinating books about his expeditions in East Asia, I just found "Camps and Trails in China" and "Across Mongolian Plains" available for download at Project Gutenberg. The only one of his books I've found previously was a well worn copy of "On the Trail of Ancient Man" at the public library in Helena some 25 years ago that likely dated from shortly after the original publication in 1926. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JKH Posted March 13, 2017 Share Posted March 13, 2017 Amazing, thanks for sharing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest DWA Posted March 17, 2017 Share Posted March 17, 2017 And have a book: http://www.patagonia.com/product/tracking-gobi-grizzlies-hardcover-book/BK770.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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