Invasive species welcome..

[Steve Walker]

I don't know. I've been about 500 yards from Himalayan bears (the ones with the V neck pullovers) when I worked for a tree surgeon in Glasgow. We had to go into the Loch Lomond Bear Park. I don't know if the bears knew we were there or not. There was a bloke in a Land Rover with a big gun between us and the bears. They didn't like the sound of the chain saws.

Doubt that bears in captivity are as wary of man as wild ones (nor, on the other side of the coin, as hungry).

[corydoras]

http://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/local-news/remember-grizzly-bears-lived-loch-8471602

 

http://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/local-news/bear-park-worker-remembers-shared-8561462

 

I remember the Polar Bears. They did not last too long. We had a little red Mini and one weekend we decided to visit the bear park. I remember my mother saying that the Polar Bears were looking at the cars as if they were trying to remember where they had left the can opener. Not long after our visit a Polar Bear climbed up onto the roof of a car and tried to use the same technique they use to break ice to get to seals on the car roof! Not long after that the Polar Bears vanished.

 

 

They have turned the Big House into a posh hotel now.

 

 

Where bears once roamed toffs now play golf.

 

http://www.cameronhouse.co.uk/cameron-club-loch-lomond/the-carrick.html

 

I think I preferred Bugsy The Bear.

Edited August 17, 2017 by corydoras

[Steve Walker]

I've stayed there, though in one of the lodges. I must say, it was rather nice.

 

No bears were sighted!

[Vagabond]

If your smart enough you don't have to out run a bear or wolf.

Reminds me of an old colonial joke about tigers that I was able to put to good use....

 

We were on a hike through a tiger sanctuary in Assam. About a dozen of us with two guides, and received wisdom said it was comparatively safe by daylight .

 

There was a somewhat domineering female within our ranks - she treated her husband like a butler and the rest of the world like inferior domestics. During conversation someone asked what we should do if a tiger were encountered. "Run!" I flippantly suggested.

 

"That would be foolish" said the Grande Dame, "a man cannot outrun a tiger"

 

"No marm" I replied "but I would not be trying to run faster than the tiger, it would be good enough merely to run faster than you"

 

The GD had obviously not heard the joke before and was suitably outraged at my callousness.

[corydoras]

Reminds me of an old colonial joke about tigers that I was able to put to good use....

 

We were on a hike through a tiger sanctuary in Assam. About a dozen of us with two guides, and received wisdom said it was comparatively safe by daylight .

 

There was a somewhat domineering female within our ranks - she treated her husband like a butler and the rest of the world like inferior domestics. During conversation someone asked what we should do if a tiger were encountered. "Run!" I flippantly suggested.

 

"That would be foolish" said the Grande Dame, "a man cannot outrun a tiger"

 

"No marm" I replied "but I would not be trying to run faster than the tiger, it would be good enough merely to run faster than you"

 

The GD had obviously not heard the joke before and was suitably outraged at my callousness.

I guess she was a bit unbearable ;-)