Spring has sprung, dear BEAR readers, but for real this time -- and we realized recently that it has been far too long since the last time we reported on the important movements and message of the BEARS. We'd blame it on travel (plentiful), or weather (rainy) or even otherwise inconvenient and ongoing personal holdups (don't ask). But really, the only thing we have to blame is blame itself. The bears haven't spent the last four weeks lallygaging about waiting for this newsletter to write itself. Rather, they've been looking for love in all in the wrong places, searching for food in all the food places and seeking a friend at the end of their hibernation (We do not apologize for the sentence which precedes this parenthetical). And if you aren't a BEAR NEWS forager, you wouldn't have realized it since this email waited so long to reach your eyes and inboxes and hearts. For that, we are deeply, fundamentally sorry. 

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Short-faced bear (Arctodus simus), an extinct species of North American bear, considered to be one of the largest known terrestrial mammalian carnivores. While some remains have been discovered suggesting the bears could have been as large as 2,000 lbs in weight and around eight to 12 feet tall, the name refers to a perception illusion that makes the carnivore's snout seem proportionally smaller than those of other similar bears in the species. The ancient short-faced bear is considered a ancestral relative of the modern spectacled bear.

food: There is no solid consensus on the actual diet of the short-faced bear. Some fossil evidence suggests an individual of the species would have required more than 35 lbs of meat a day in order to survive. Paleontologists vary on their understanding of the short-faced bear's consumption of vegetation of any kind, and other paleontologists have suggested the short-faced bear used its considerable size in order to intimidate other large carnivores and steal their killed prey. 

habitat: The short-faced bear is considered to be have been the most abundant in the part of North America that now makes up the U.S. state of California. However, remains have been discovered extending from the modern U.S. state of Alaska all the way down to the modern U.S. state of Mississippi. 
(via Wikipedia)

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