Leftovers from jam making

[wildWoman]

Here's a great practical joke you can play on friends and neighbours if you live in bear country and are making jam or jelly.
Take the leftover, squished out berries that remain in your cheesecloth unobserved to somebody's doorstep...somebody familiar with the looks of bear poop.
We did that years ago, when we still lived in town, and it was just too funny! We put the mess of berries on the porch steps of a neighbour and within half an hour were rewarded with a phone call: "you'll never guess what happened! A bear must have just been up on my porch! The dog never even barked! There's a gigantic bear poop on the steps and it's still warm!"

[klkak]

That is a good one.

[Sourdough]

I have taken to more careful examination of used bear food this year, and an interesting discovery is the quantity of soft berries like Twisted stalk (aka watermelon), and salmonberry that come out just like they went in, not even smashed, or deformed. And the harder shell berries like the Devils club berries and mountain ash, currants are ground up, and at least somewhat digested. I just don't understand bears.

[Rick]

Well, I confess to not knowin' too great of detail about our four legged friends but from where I sit is appears your confusion is more oriented toward bear poop. Just an observation, mind you. Now, the test of a true sourdough is...do the berries still taste the same?

[wildWoman]

I have taken to more careful examination of used bear food this year, and an interesting discovery is the quantity of soft berries like Twisted stalk (aka watermelon), and salmonberry that come out just like they went in, not even smashed, or deformed. And the harder shell berries like the Devils club berries and mountain ash, currants are ground up, and at least somewhat digested. I just don't understand bears.

Man, those guys sure have lots of variety where you are! Here, it's mostly soapberries and mossberries for them. We recently noticed quite a few bear poops with lots of moss and just a few berries in them. Any idea what they would eat moss for?

[Sourdough]

Man, those guys sure have lots of variety where you are! Here, it's mostly soapberries and mossberries for them. We recently noticed quite a few bear poops with lots of moss and just a few berries in them. Any idea what they would eat moss for?

I have no idea, They say that they eat grass, and woody brush just be for hibernation, but it is a month early for that.

[Rick]

Well, moss is a natural toilet paper. Maybe they are just saving a step.

Here's a google but I have no idea:

http://www.nps.gov/yell/naturescience/denning.htm (http://www.nps.gov/yell/nature/animals/bear/infopaper/info10.html) and http://www.madsci.org/posts/archives/may97/859503366.Zo.r.html state that bears were thought to eat roughage prior to den entrance. This would scour their digestive tract and form a plug in the anus to prevent them from eating any more food that fall. Instead, the plug or ‘tappen' is made up of faeces, dead intestinal cells, hair, and bedding material. It forms during hibernation and not before. As bears do not eat during the winter hibernation period, there is little build up of nitrogenous wastes, so they do not urinate or defeecate. They produce some faeces, but the plug may keep the bear from defecating inside the den during hibernation as faecal plugs are found just inside or outside the dens of bears that have just emerged.

[wildWoman]

I shall just interpret it as a sign for an early winter...wouldn't that be nice...some of those bears must have come down from the alpine, having consumed mostly mossberries, and it's been snowing up there on and off all through the summer this year, maybe that influenced their seasonal forecasting...

[Gray Wolf]

Gives "pulling the plug" a whole new meaning...

[crashdive123]

Grizzly bear berry cannon.

[Gray Wolf]

Back up! She's gonna blow! http://img2.mysmiley.net/imgs/smile/scared/scared0014.gif (http://www.mysmiley.net/free-indifferent-smileys.php)

[Rick]

Plugs? Hmmmpppf! We're a little more refined than that, thank you!

http://www.monkeybriefs.com/uploads/b_41bear_poop.jpg

[Gray Wolf]

Great pic, rotflmao

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