Cuban Bear sighted near Granada! Apparently she's been attracted by the pungent cholesterol and sugar smell exuded by the multitude of tourists who invade our city. She's extremely dangerous. If you meet her, don't call the Rangers -she knows them all! In order not to upset her, it's best to give her any preferably greasy bits you might find in your pockets and/or a couple of Euros. And then RUN for your life!
viernes, 1 de abril de 2011
Bearanese sighted near Granada!
Cuban Bear sighted near Granada! Apparently she's been attracted by the pungent cholesterol and sugar smell exuded by the multitude of tourists who invade our city. She's extremely dangerous. If you meet her, don't call the Rangers -she knows them all! In order not to upset her, it's best to give her any preferably greasy bits you might find in your pockets and/or a couple of Euros. And then RUN for your life!
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Once both Cuban Bears (aka Bearanese) and Spanish-Cuban Mountain Dogs were quite common in the forests and hills around Granada. Today you just can sight them —very rarely— in the higher mountains of the Sierra Nevada. Strangely enough the higher populations of both species seemed to favour the same habitat, even the same territory. SCMDs were also kept in order to maintain Cuban Bears away from their goat and chicken herds, but they were quite lousy at this, to tell the truth. Again, Bearanese weren't very skillful predators either, thus they didn't mean much harm to anyone and were tolerated in the vicinity of the villages. Some authors even think many Cuban Bears were domesticated and kept as pets themselves. In fact, some authors go so far as to maintain that SCMDs and Bearanese are the same species: they were seen as and called Cuban Bears when they went on two feet and Spanish-Cuban Mountain Dogs when they went on all fours. It's a really interesting topic on which there isn't much research yet.
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