Blue Valley Libraries: Touching Spirit Bear: Spirit Bear/Alaskan Bears

Spirit Bear Images

Max Waugh

Alaska in Pictures

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You should have 1 Noodletools Notecard on each of the following subtiopics, with the required minimum bullets:

Description of Spirit Bear/Kermode Bear; (5-8 bullets)

Habitat/Location: (3-5 bullets)

Other Alaskan Bears description and habitat; (5-8) bullets

Other interesting facts; 3-5 bullets (don’t repeat info you’ve already used)

Bear Attacks; (5-8 bullets)

Spirit Bear: The Next Environmental Superstaf (ABC Nightline)
The Great Bear Rainforest is not easy to get to. It's a wilderness the size of Switzerland. This remote corner of Canada is the spirit bear -- "Canada's panda" -- black bears with white fur because of a genetic variation. There are less than 500 of them on Earth.
Kermode Bear (National Geographic)
Spirit Bear: In a moss-draped rain forest in British Columbia, towering red cedars live a thousand years, and black bears are born with white fur.
Spirit Bear (Nature Conservancy)
Less than 400 of these rare bears exist, and their largest numbers are found in the Great Bear Rainforest.
What is a Spirit Bear? (North American Bear Center)
Spirit bears are rare black bears with white or creamy fur, brown eyes, dark nose pads, and nearly white claws. They are not polar bears or albinos. Maybe 400 exist in the world.
About the Spirit Bear (Valhalla Wilderness Society)
The spirit bear is a unique subspecies of the North American black bear in which approximately one in every 10 bears is white or cream-coloured.
Spirit Bear Video (National Geographic)
British Columbia boasts the largest temperate rainforest park in the world, the Great Bear Rainforest. Discover some of the oldest and largest trees on Earth, plus unique wildlife like the white 'Spirit' bear. Understand how managers strive to balance logging, mining, and conservation in this rainforest. (3:02)
Missouri Bear Tracker