If you're auditioning for a movie about a bear, it seems pretty reasonable to audition with a live bear. You want to give the director some context.

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Just like the sign says.

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1. Originally From a National Geographic Photo Competition

Lady bears are losing their hair and developing rashes at a German zoo, and it's sad. On the bright side, they kind of look like four-legged, big-eared Gene Simmonses. So that could be a good thing?

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An animated cartoon that teaches you valuable lessons about a bear, a cloud, and god.

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Cigar-smoking, Tommy-Gun-toting bear surfs an angry shark. If your nose starts bleeding, it's because this picture just kicked you in the face.

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…what I would give to see the photo taken 10 seconds after this.

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Cross-town traffic in Moscow during rush hour can really be a bear.

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If you even think about giving the bears your Big Mac you now know what we'll do to them. Two words. Shotgun, and blood. Keep your windows up and burgers safely inside the vehicle.

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1. Defunker!

These very polite bears would like some food, please. It may not seem polite, but when you think about bear/food alternatives, it's downright gentlemanly.

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A Nazi-fighting, whiskey-drinking, cigar-smoking Polish artillery gunner. Who was also a bear!

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Adorable underwater camera shows how bears get fish out of a stream with their fancy footwork. Fun fact: Most bears hate getting their ears wet, so they have adapted their techniques for getting fish to keep their ears dry.

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Rest assured no animal (or human) will bother you while you snooze in your new sleeping bag!

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1. by Eiko Ishizawa
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Nothing to do with Sarah Palin, I promise. Just a bear, waving hi, like they do before they viciously attack . Don't be fooled!

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1. Animals Sitting Like Humans [PIC]
2. Riding Bear Back [PIC]
3. Bears R Chill
4. Bear Kills Caribou [PIC]

Sup Dog likes to chill with bears. What you lookin' at?

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1. Via Urlesque: Sup Dog Lives A Life You Could Only Dream Of

Link: http://www.thingsbearslove.com/

A cute web comic lists things that bears love — including Girl Scouts, drunks, and the emergency exit row. Buy a shirt and $2 goes to the World Wildlife Fund!

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Giving puppy cam a run for its cute, cute money. This would be better if there were a whole punch of baby pandas lying atop one another, snuggling, sleeping, and generally being winning, but even one panda is pretty powerful, cute-wise.

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1. Related: Live Puppy Cam

This is why bears are so awesome. As the tumble log Bears R Chill points out, “This bear is getting its Halloween costume ready.”

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SCIENCE BUZZ: In the first presidential debate, John McCain cited a bear DNA study as an example of pork barrel spending. He seemed also to imply a hatred of bears. The bear project in Montana, as it turns out, isn’t a pork product, and even the numbers he quoted were wrong. Nonetheless, his dislike of bears remains.

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1. McCain’s Beef with Bears? - Pork
2. Other Ways In Which McCain is Wrong About Bears

TV BUZZ: The prequel series to Werner Herzog’s documentary, Grizzly Man, premieres tonight on Animal Planet. The New York Times reviewed the show, and said it looks like “a chronicle of one man’s extended suicide”. Timothy Treadwell, the deceased star of Grizzly Man, is obviously the star of the show, as the 8 part documentary takes viewers through the hours of unused footage of Treadwell playing with bears, calling them names, and being generally crazy. Kids, don’t play with bears.

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1. Scenes From The Grizzly Man Prequel
2. The Grizzly Man Diaries
3. Observer of Grizzly Bears, Seen in Haunting Hindsight
4. The Show Seems Set To Be Quite Worthwhile
5. An Exploration of a Man Trying to Find a Solid Center
6. Proximity Trumps Pathology

BUSINESS BUZZ: Setting off to see bears in the wild is a growing eco-tourism trend. Despite documentary evidence that spending too much time around grizzlies can be dangerous to your health (they attack!), it’s a booming niche travel market, and guides insist it’s safe.

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1. Face-to-Face With the Grizzly
2. Video: Grizzly Bear Tourism
3. Great Bear Nature Tours
4. Knight Inlet Lodge
5. The Bears of Bute