*Ex-girlfriend kicked him out of upstate New York house
*Clyde Gardner originally planned his own ‘bear attack’
*Gardner then told friend to pull off staged car crash
*But friend shopped him to police and he was jailed
ANCHORAGE, Alaska — A 22-year-old Alaska woman said on Wednesday she punched a black bear in the face to save her small dog from being carried off and possibly eaten.
Juneau resident Brooke Collins said she hit the bear Sunday night to save the life of her dachshund, Fudge. She said she discovered the bear crouched down, clutching Fudge in its paws and biting the back of the dog’s neck.
Giant panda Cao Cao and its cub were released into the Wolong Nature Reserve in China for the first time on Sunday.
In an extremely delicate operation, their handlers wore bear costumes to minimise the impact of human contact.
The bears will be monitored on a regular basis to ensure they have best chance of survival in the wild. Breeding experts will keep a distance from their new home, watching their daily activities through hidden cameras.
Afraid of bears? You’d probably be a lot more afraid if you were alive around 2 million years ago. Back then, National Geographic reports that there was a bear who towered at least 11 feet tall standing up and weighed up to 3,500 pounds.
With Pot smoking California Bear = Awesome.
Canceled my cable last week because I don’t watch TV. I’ll catch him on the Net!
Bears are reported to be raiding graveyards in search of food in Russia's Arctic Circle republic of Komi. Photograph: Alexander Nemenov/AFP/Getty Images
From a distance it resembled a rather large man in a fur coat, leaning tenderly over the grave of a loved one. But when the two women in the Russian village of Vezhnya Tchova came closer they realised there was a bear in the cemetery eating a body.
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