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bears and stinging nettle
« on: May 04, 2008, 09:23:29 PM »
ive seen bears walking through stinging nettle on my property before, so i know it doenst bother them, but do any of you guys know if bears eat the stuff? especially when its younger?
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Re: bears and stinging nettle
« Reply #1 on: May 06, 2008, 07:27:51 PM »
No idea but if they will eat battery acid, let bees sting them, drink a cooler of Rayonier it wouldn't suprise me.  :o
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Re: bears and stinging nettle
« Reply #2 on: May 06, 2008, 07:29:29 PM »
eat battery acid?

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Re: bears and stinging nettle
« Reply #3 on: May 06, 2008, 07:45:37 PM »
Yeah bears have ripped the tops off of batteries and ate the acid. That's an old story too. No car batteries that I'm aware of. lol He might have a stomach ache after that.
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Re: bears and stinging nettle
« Reply #4 on: May 06, 2008, 08:25:14 PM »
I think the term they will eat anything means they willl eat anything.

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Re: bears and stinging nettle
« Reply #5 on: May 07, 2008, 05:59:52 AM »
I have found lots of bear crap with surveyors ribbon  and plastic from gas/oil jugs in it.




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Re: bears and stinging nettle
« Reply #6 on: May 07, 2008, 06:21:37 AM »
Yep, about 5 minutes after they eat it, they *censored* it out the other end.  It doesn't stay long in there.  Another vivid memory back in th eday as a kid, we put a fruit crate filled with pears out.  A bear came in and ate them and just aboutthe exact distance behind the crate was a pile of *censored* out, chewed pears.  In one end out the other.  Could have jsut re-used them I think.  :)

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Re: bears and stinging nettle
« Reply #7 on: May 07, 2008, 06:24:28 AM »
Did you make pear butter with it Bone? :puke:
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Re: bears and stinging nettle
« Reply #8 on: May 07, 2008, 06:25:14 AM »
It needed one more refining.

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Re: bears and stinging nettle
« Reply #9 on: May 07, 2008, 06:27:06 AM »
Anyone remember the picture of the pilke of bear crap withthe wrist watch and candy bar wrapper in it....it was circulating as a joke when Treadwell got munched.   I suppose its not really funny, or wouldn't be for anybody BUT him.

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Re: bears and stinging nettle
« Reply #10 on: May 07, 2008, 06:40:11 AM »
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Re: bears and stinging nettle
« Reply #11 on: May 07, 2008, 09:52:19 AM »
I've seen em when they eat apples and pears.

It's nice having an orchard on your property.  :chuckle:

Up in Alaska they go ofter quad seats. Something in the rubber or something. Bite marks and even chunks missing I guess.
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Re: bears and stinging nettle
« Reply #12 on: May 07, 2008, 02:16:26 PM »
Stining nettles, heck they go through Alaskan Devils Club like pop corn at a movie theater....I've had them eat my duck tape off a tree stand plus some of the aluminum, eat a plastic bucket full of honey that was supposed to be dripping but they ate the wire holding the bucket, eat into a metal can of old bomb shelter candy, eat a trail camera, well lets just state----- their animals....  and the best to date, crush a 55 gallon barrel from the top down to about 3/4 down, and chewed the sides open, how strong would that have to be, it wasn't a cheap made barrel either...  The most determined, smart-thick headed animals out there -is my opinion.

Have you seen the video clip of a black bear in Yosemite, it figured out how to bend the window frame out of cars to get into a cooler and doritos!  I'll see if I can find it anywhere.

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Re: bears and stinging nettle
« Reply #13 on: May 07, 2008, 03:24:53 PM »
That would be a sweet vid to watch! Hope you can find it.

When the were building the Alaska pipeline my dad watched a trapped Barren Ground Grizzly take the back door off a bus with one swipe.

They can also delicately poke out the glass of a front windshield too.  :chuckle:
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Re: bears and stinging nettle
« Reply #14 on: May 07, 2008, 04:59:23 PM »
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Have you seen the video clip of a black bear in Yosemite, it figured out how to bend the window frame out of cars to get into a cooler and doritos!  I'll see if I can find it anywhere.

yea, I saw it awhile back. Pretty crazy.




 


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