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Podcast: Animal Encounters - Lions and Tigers and Bears, Oh My

Listeners tell us about their wildest animal encounters, from a chance meeting with a herd of elk to touching a tiger's tail.
The Podcast Team March 24, 2023
When polar bears like this mom and cub wander into Churchill, a small town in a remote northern corner of Canada, they might just end up in "polar bear jail."
prisons

Inside Canada's Polar Bear Jail

The holding facility helps bears and people safely coexist in the remote northern town.
Lina Zeldovich March 2, 2023
Charlton, Massachusetts

Grave of Grizzly Adams

The final resting place of a man who claimed that he could tame even the mightiest of bears.
science

Podcast: Rae Wynn-Grant and the Bear

A wildlife ecologist specializing in large carnivores unfolds a mystery for listeners.
The Podcast Team January 26, 2023
Scoresby's Polar Bear
Whitby, England

Scoresby's Polar Bear

A monument to the real explorer and bear who inspired characters in Philip Pullman's 'His Dark Materials.'
Bear sculpture at Dunbar
Dunbar, Scotland

'The DunBear'

This giant steel bear is a tribute to naturalist John Muir.
International Falls, Minnesota

Smokey Bear Park

Home to a 26-foot-tall statue of an American icon.
A partial reconstruction of a 700-year-old pit house, where it originally stood, on the ancient bank of the Brooks River. A modern hut has been built around it to preserve the site.
King Salmon, Alaska

Brooks River Archaeological District

One of Alaska's most significant ancient sites, spanning millennia and cultures, is right under the feet of some famously fat bears.
A young spirit bear, part of a genetically unique population found only in Great Bear Rainforest on British Columbia's central coast, is one of many animals First Nations coastal guardians work to protect.
bears

On the Coast of British Columbia, Ancient Stewardship Gets a Modern Spin

From tracking rare spirit bears to responding to disasters, First Nations coastal guardians are on watch.
Ashley Stimpson August 30, 2022
Greenville, Mississippi

Holt Collier Gravestone

The final resting place of an esteemed bear hunter and formerly enslaved man who led Theodore Roosevelt on a hunting trip that inspired the creation of the teddy bear.
Bear 409, “Beadnose,” a sow that won Fat Bear Week in 2018. GIS specialist Joel Cusick is pioneering a new technique for calculating the bears’ weight that doesn’t require pulley systems and tranquilization.
science

Just How Fat Are Alaska's Most Famous Fat Bears?

As Fat Bear Week approaches, biologists share the results of a novel, noninvasive method to determine the animals' true heft.
Kylie Mohr September 22, 2023
Bear Pit, Sheffield Botanic Gardens
Sheffield, England

Sheffield Botanical Gardens Bear Pit

In the 19th century, this pit housed a fully grown black bear for the entertainment of visitors. Today there is a sculpture in tribute to the poor creature.
Brown bears in Katmai National Park, shown here in August, spend the summer bulking up on salmon.
nature

It's Fat Bear Week in Alaska, And There's Still Time to Vote

Big is beautiful as brown bears pile on the pounds before hibernating in Katmai National Park.
Atlas Obscura October 2, 2020
A bevy of bears on a porch in Prince Edward Island, Canada.
bears

Teddy Bears Are Taking Over Prince Edward Island in Canada

While locals shelter in place, stuffed toys are popping up by the hundreds on porches and windowsills.
Darcy Rhyno April 27, 2020
Oh, nose! Cave bears' diet-limiting sinuses may have been what spelled doom for the Ice Age beasts.
caves

Why Europe's Cave Bears Were—and Weren't—Made for Hunkering Down

Their big sinuses were both an evolutionary boon and bust.
Isaac Schultz April 3, 2020
Troy, Michigan

Polar Bears Memorial

This monument commemorates the only American soldiers to have directly fought Russians during World War I.
As omnivores, bear meat and fat typically take on the flavor of their diet.
food

Why Bear Fat Makes for Better Baking

This niche practice was commonplace in North America for centuries.
Luke Fater September 20, 2019
Chi-Chi eternally munching a bamboo stalk.
London, England

Chi-Chi the Giant Panda

The beloved beast's taxidermy remains sit in the Natural History Museum's cafe.