Rare ‘white’ black bear captured on camera

Cool! That's really amazing. What a pleasure it must have been to see that. I decided to do some research on the white bear in Native American mythology because it made me think of other white animals in their belief system. I discovered that the "white" black bear is also called the Spirit Bear and according to one story, the spirit bear was made white by the Creator of the Universe to remind its people of the past period of time known as the Ice Age. The Creator did this to remind the native people of the previous hardship of living in tons of snow and ice. According to other stories from ot... [More]

Wow . It's all that I can say.

That would look good hanging above my fireplace.........JUST KIDDING DON'T KILL ME! I like your Icon (Hate windows but have to code for it's VS 2010 feature). And no killing you, just please don't dream about doing the same. Edit: No relation for the OP but love Oracle (and Unix and its open source cousins) though.

WOW - just how beautiful is that!!!???!!!

Gorgeous Bear !!! nature is amazing and it is wonderful to see animals living in nature and not messed with by humans.

More like a strawberry-blonde bear... imo.

How rare is this variant of black bear? wow, just 200. That's sweet, that this guy was able to get pics. The pictures are of amazing clarity.

ow rare is this variant of black bear? wow, just 200. That's sweet, that this guy was able to get pics. its actually closer to 500-700 (about 1/10th of the black bear pop in this region have these genes) from what i have read. but eitherway, neat pic

Neat pictures and story thanks for sharing

That name "spirit bear" is epic and somehow, prophetic. XD