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To: Maurice Winn who wrote (63801)	5/13/2005 3:29:07 AM
From: marcos	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 74559

Grizzlies eat mostly vegetation, this article says eighty to ninety per cent ... on the BC coast they hang around river deltas to graze on the goosegrass, then pig out on salmon when they run, maybe a deer faun or two in the spring, some grubs from rotten wood, and all the rest vegetation .... this article says their 'ideal meal is a bellyful of berries, which are critical for building fat deposits to carry grizzlies through the denning period' .... hard to imagine berries as fattening, without the cream anyway, but that's what they say ... polar bears eat a few berries on the shore sometimes, but mostly meat, there just is no vegetation out on the ice ... and they're about twice the weight of grizzlies, yet are felt not to be able to compete with them on land ... they seem to have evolved from glacier-isolated brown bears 'near Siberia' about 200,000 years ago A lot of other animals are moving north with the warming, marten, river otter, and birds for which the inuit have no names, never having seen them before, robins and barn swallows are two ... also, pacific salmon, for the first time ever