Mellon

and hilariously that is not why it is called that.

It is the circle of the bears cause of ursa major and ursa minor, and the circle without bears cause ya'know opposite part of the sky.

We lucked right into that one....

#so what you’re saying is#the stars dictate whether bears do or do not exist in places

Astrology is real but only for predicting where bears will be

Bears do not travel to places they cannot see their gods

I've seen this post before but it only just occurred to me that there might be some sort of underlying reason that "places where bears are" and "places where people name stars after bears" overlap.

Reblogging for that last comment.

Detroit zoo: Bear cubs Jebbie grizzly bear and Laerke polar bear playing

Looked up context for this video and Detroit Zoo (AZA) lost one of their two newborn polar bear cubs and the mother rejected the survivor, and Jebbie was found wandering orphaned in Alaska so they’ve been moved in together for companionship! certified cute video

My man was really gonna let a fucking BEAR into his house for the views and the BEAR had to be the sensible one here

Kramer entrance

Not where I expected this to go.

OH

I thought it was a dog…..

Wow

Situational awareness….

Definitely failed that spot check

or a natural 20 on a stealth check

well, age does add -1 to perception with each year over 65

Bear also stopped in a shadow, thats like +3 to sneak

overall very impressive

I love how confused the bear is

I asked my boyfriend in Canada once, how he deals with polar bears because I was curious about what to do and he was like, just be calm, let them know you’re there, and give them space and they’ll usually just go away. 

In Finland on the other hand.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z7_pVrIshxA

Lmao Finland Man ain’t taking shit from bears.

PERRrrRrrRrKELE

((Two kinds of people))

photos by lassi rautiainen, susan brookes and staffan widstrand of a rare friendship that developed between a female grey wolf and a male brown bear in northern finland.

notes lassi, “no one can know exactly why or how the young wolf and bear became friends, but i think that perhaps they were both alone when they were young and a bit unsure of how to survive alone. it seems to me that they feel safe being together.”

the photographers also note that the two share every meal together, bringing each other their kills (as seen in the third and fifth photos).

A young polar bear cub filmed over the first 83 days of her life

video via Columbus Zoo and Aquarium

I’M NOT CRYING YOU’RE CRYING

Wow

Situational awareness….

Definitely failed that spot check

or a natural 20 on a stealth check

well, age does add -1 to perception with each year over 65

Bear also stopped in a shadow, thats like +3 to sneak

I am 100% convinced that “exit, pursued by a bear” is a reference to some popular 1590s meme that we’ll never be able to understand because that one play is the only surviving example of it.

Seriously, we’ll never figure it out. I’ll wager trying to understand “exit, pursued by a bear” with the text of The Winter’s Tale as our primary source is like trying to understand loss.jpg when all you have access to is a single overcompressed JPEG of a third-generation memetic mutation that mashes it up with YMCA and “gun” - there’s this whole twitching Frankensteinian mass of cultural context we just don’t have any way of getting at.

no, but this is why people do the boring archival work! because we think we do know why “exit, pursued by a bear” exists, now, and we figured it out by looking at ships manifests of the era -

it’s also why there was a revival of the unattributed and at the time probably rather out of fashion mucedorus at the globe in 1610 (the same year as the winter’s tale), and why ben jonson wrote a chariot pulled by bears into his court masque oberon, performed on new year’s day of 1611.

we think the answer is polar bears.

no, seriously!  in late 1609 the explorer jonas poole captured two polar bear cubs in greenland and brought them home to england, where they were purchased by the beargarden, the go-to place in elizabethan london for bear-baiting and other ‘animal sports.’  it was at the time run by edward alleyn (yes, the actor) and his father-in-law philip henslowe (him of the admiral’s men and that diary we are all so very grateful for), and would have been very close, if not next to, the globe theatre.

of course, polar bear cubs are too little and adorable for baiting, even to the bloodthirsty tudor audience, aren’t they?  so, what to do with the little bundles of fur until they’re too big to be harmless?  well, if there’s anything we know about the playwrights and theatre professionals of the time, it’s that they knew how to make money and draw in audiences.  and the spectacle of a too-small-to-be-dangerous-yet-but-still-real-live-and-totally-WHITE-bear?  what good entertainment businessman is going to turn down that opportunity? 

and, voila, we have a death-by-bear for the unfortunate antigonus, thereby freeing up paulina to be coupled off with camillo in the final scene, just as the comedic conventions of the time would expect.

you’re telling me it was an ACTUAL BEAR

every time I think to myself “history can’t possibly get any more bananas” I realize or am made to realize that I am badly mistaken

So, the Lost Meme OMGWTFPOLARBEAR is just a Shakespeare ripoff…?

A polar bear cub discovering the joy of bubbles

Oh my gosh baby

OH HE GETS SHY AT THE END

DON’T WORRY POLAR BEAR I REALLY LIKE YOUR DANCE DON’T WORRY

YOU CAN KEEP GOING IF YOU WANT I THINK IT’S REALLY CUTE

DON’T BE SELF CONSCIOUS YOU JUST DANCE ALL DAY SWEETHEART

@immoral-crow <3

A polar bear cub discovering the joy of bubbles

Oh my gosh baby