OK, Teddy, I don't mean to boar you, or to be completely polar, but don't paint me black if I speak up to such a grizzled one as you, so bear with me.
What we do not know. Is it Ursa Major or Minor?
Will it be a big dipper or a little dipper?
Broadfoot
Lord of the Taiga
Angry One
Big Great Food
Black Food
Food of the Fire
Good-tempered Beast
Holy Animal
Master of the Forest
Old Man of the Mountain
Holy AnimalVenerable One
The Strong One
Dweller in the Wilds
Four-legged Man
Fur Man
Illustrious Pride
The Thing
Divine One Who Rules the Mountains
Reared in the Mountains
Great Man
Still more, I can bearly stand it ..
* brown
* teddy
* polar
* grizzly
* silvertip
* black beast
* black food (Cree Indians)
* blue bear (glacier bear)
* king of American wilderness
* lava bear (central Oregon lava cones and flows)
* phantom of the woods
* spirit of the forest
* bruin
* camp robber of the wild
* cinnamon bear
(ed note. Cinammon bear are seen in North Saskatchewan. They are a very aggressive honey-brown coloured variety of black, perhaps crossed with brown in early times.)
* ridge runner (Appalachian Mountains)
* gap crosser (Appalachian Mountains)
(ed note.. bears will cross an entire valley to get at you. bin there, done that.)
* glacier bear
* happy hooligan
* island white bear (Kermode)
* Kermode bear
(ed note. seen the Kermode in BC. only sub-arctic white bear. White coloured moose, beaver, wolf, mountain lion (I ain't lion) and perhaps bear are seen in the Geraldton area of Ontario. It the surmised (idly) that the colouration may be due radioactivity of rocks there.)
* variegated bear
* yack-kay (Yankah)
* Smokey
* Teddy
* Yogi
whereas ...
names for bulls.
* helium animal
* no rumination, buy buy buy
* false rally
* buffaloed
* kidding yourself
* horned beast
* matador food
* one with the big cajones
* bum steer
* mad cow
* up, up and away
* oxen who pulls cart that spills money
* hog in disguise
* broker's delight
* wallet muncher
* no price beef
* Texas long horn accumulator
* can't tell the wife
* he charges paper
* buy on credit
* only climbs
* deluded one
* one who thinks he can live forever
* no fundamentals
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