But as a reminder of the ice age, he caused every 10th black bear to be ... bear uses its white magic. To store fat for winter, the bears spend fall days gorging on salmon. According to a 2009 ...

A white-coated black bear gorges on salmon roe to pack on fat for the winter. Triggered by a recessive trait, the bear’s white coat may make it less threatening than a black coat to spawning ...

Perhaps a black bear population was cut off on a strip ... and entering the river to see which outfit spooked the salmon less. So the white forms seem to have a slight edge in the quest for ...

They carry salmon carcasses deep into ... those that may carry the recessive gene for white fur. Ideally, the hunting of black bears in the Great Bear Rainforest will become illegal, as the ...