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PRESS RELEASE:
"YOU DON'T NEED A BIOLOGIST, YOU NEED A PSYCHIATRIST"
Some people might think the life of a bear biologist is all about DNA and statistics, about frustrating days on end wondering what happened to the research bear and why it gets so cold just standing around in the woods. But this perception couldn't be further from the truth.
Take the story of
Yinda, a Strange Family Member. Spectacled bear expert Bernie Peyton
becomes embroiled in an interesting situation in Peru when a bear is
adopted by a family of rural farmers. The spectacled bear cub quickly
steals the affections of the family's mother, who goes about her life with
her Yinda right at her side, like her favorite small child. Bernie is
called down from California by his friend wildlife photographer Heinz
Plenge to help find a more suitable home for the bear. A reluctant Bernie
quickly decides that what is needed is a psychiatrist, not a biologist.
Nonetheless, Bernie forges on and there is a wonderfully happy ending. Or
consider El Patron, a Chihuahuan Desert black bear that never saw a human
habitation he couldn't break into or a landowner who didn't want him
“permanently removed,” until Bonnie McKinney came to the rescue. Or would
you be surprised to learn that a python can swallow a sun bear whole,
radio collar and all? The list goes on: there are stories about sloth
bears, the giant panda, European brown bears, grizzlies in Alaska,
hibernating black bears in Kentucky, polar bears, sun bears, moon bears;
stories from science writer and PBS commentator Sy Montgomery, wildlife
photographer Tom Mangelsen, wildlife artist Monte Dolack, iconic
conservationist and sportsman Theodore Roosevelt, from Drs. David Maehr
and Shyamala Ratnayeke, and on and on. As former Forest Service Chief Jack
Ward Thomas says, the book is a real potpourri.
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