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of coarse ! lol, all bears acquire a "HUMP" during mating season,,,,,,,,,  |
No, all bears have a hump when their heads are down. 
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07-08-2014, 06:27 PM
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A Test i like it!
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Originally Posted by 510-Gem
This guy's got me guessing.. Is he a big black or a small grizz? I've never noticed a hump like that on black bears.
I'll post the location of the photo once a few guesses come in, just so it doesn't influence your decision like it has mine...
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I will say black bear.
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07-08-2014, 07:17 PM
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07-08-2014, 07:18 PM
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I wouldn't shoot it. Looks like a head of a black but I think it is a grizzly.
DiomondDave what do you think it is?
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07-08-2014, 07:30 PM
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Looks like a really nice colour phase blackie to me!
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07-08-2014, 07:33 PM
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Looks like a really nice colour phase blackie to me!
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This is 100% correct. Not even a shred of doubt in my mind.
Some of the pics posted on here are questionable but I'm surprised how this one could get confused.
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07-08-2014, 07:38 PM
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That's one pig of a black bear. Why would you be surprized if it's a grizz? Hasn't there always been grizz around Slave lk?
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07-08-2014, 07:44 PM
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Thinking this is a black bear. I wouldn't be surprised to see a grizzly out around hwy 2 south of slave lake. There is a grizzly in the pelican mountains to the south east well east of hwy 2 and if I recall correctly there was a grizzly shot many years back west of Island Lake. Also the odd one west of wabasca area.
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07-08-2014, 08:55 PM
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That's not a Horrible photo.
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So you think it's Ursus americanus, not Ursus arctos horribillis?
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07-08-2014, 09:04 PM
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Looks like a really nice colour phase blackie to me!
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07-08-2014, 10:05 PM
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07-08-2014, 10:16 PM
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Let me be the first to say it.... I don't know.
Leaning towards blackie.
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07-08-2014, 10:50 PM
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Hump +dished face= grizz
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07-08-2014, 10:55 PM
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Hump +dished face= grizz
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Doesn't look dished to me.
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07-08-2014, 10:59 PM
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Grizz I'd say
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07-08-2014, 11:24 PM
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I would shoot it in a minite and slap my black bear tag on it. Then rug it proudly for the great color phase that it is.
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07-09-2014, 12:09 AM
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I am going with colored black bear. Just look at the face grizz. have longer nose.
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07-09-2014, 12:30 AM
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Guess I've been educated. After going through a few dozen bear pics (no I don't hunt them...good thing) that is a whopper of a black bear. Live and learn.
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07-09-2014, 08:18 AM
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black for sure
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07-09-2014, 08:58 AM
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Originally Posted by nube
I wouldn't shoot it. Looks like a head of a black but I think it is a grizzly.
DiomondDave what do you think it is?
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I've said it right from the start a couple of times. Dead bear, big rug, no question in my mind its a blonde phase black bear.
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07-09-2014, 09:55 AM
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I say it is a color phase Black bear...Think the hump such as it is in this pic just formed by the way the bear is standing. The hump on any Grizz I have seen has always been more pronounced...then there is the face and ears..those definatly look like a Black to me....But I would be looking at him from a differant angle before I pulled the trigger...it don't look like he is a big hurry to go anywhere so you would have time.
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07-09-2014, 11:54 AM
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So you think it's Ursus americanus, not Ursus arctos horribillis?
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I'm glad at least one person understood the post.
It's not a question of thinking. That's a Black bear, without question.
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07-09-2014, 12:53 PM
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I'm glad at least one person understood the post.
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I would think more than a few understood your post. Black bear in my opinion.
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07-09-2014, 05:18 PM
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Gorgeous unusual color, I'm thinking that confuses the issue here.
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07-09-2014, 11:06 PM
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This guy shows good facial features. He was 25' away. -18 last week of November.
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07-10-2014, 02:36 AM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by 510-Gem
This guy's got me guessing.. Is he a big black or a small grizz? I've never noticed a hump like that on black bears.
I'll post the location of the photo once a few guesses come in, just so it doesn't influence your decision like it has mine...
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I had a feeling you were gonna say that area.
These are the pics I got last Friday evening
Same approx area..... Yes. Same bear....
Possibly. At first I thought it was a young
Color phase blackie, but had the light colored
Long haired hump, and the ears were really
Light at the tips as well. Head looked like
A black bear, but the rest looked like a
Young grizz
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07-10-2014, 10:54 AM
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there is no debate on these pics, that is and always will be 100 % a color phase black bear.
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07-10-2014, 12:35 PM
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there is no debate on these pics, that is and always will be 100 % a color phase black bear.
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07-10-2014, 12:36 PM
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lol.... It's not, not a black bear.
please don't go bear hunting
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07-10-2014, 01:09 PM
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I would hang a black bear tag on that in a second. No matter what colour it is (but that is nice). The face and ears are all black bear. However the hips look lower than the front, or at least even, and that is a pretty good hump for a black bear.
I don't have too much trouble telling the difference (heck even passed the Montana online test!) and ran into a couple hunting (one a couple weeks ago), that were immediately identifiable as grizzly.
If I did not see the pic with its head up, I would have though grizzly.
That said, it would not surprise me if a large black bear mated with a sow grizzly and made that, or that a couple generations away.
Would not be the first time bears crossed.
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