[貼圖] White colored Black Bear

Thanks to the strict conservative effort, these beautiful animals are able to live in peace happily....

In a moss-draped rain forest in British Columbia, towering red cedars live a thousand years, and black bears are born with white fur.

With a pink salmon in its jaws, a five-year-old male retreats into the forest before slitting open the fish's belly and eating only the eggs. Other bears may consume everything, from head to tail.

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 fish, giving the bears an advantage when fishing during daytime.

Two adult males tussle over a prime fishing spot in a river. "Bear scraps are rare events," says Doug Neasloss, a Kitasoo/Xai'xais wildlife guide. "There's a high potential for injury, so they avoid conflict if they can."

A Kermode bear consumes a pink salmon, tail and all. When fishing is plentiful and bears are nearly satiated, they often eat just the fish heads and eggs. When they're ravenous, they eat the whole thing.

This rare mama Kermode bear climbed a tree to feast on a bumper crop of crab apples in Canada's Great Bear Rainforest.

A mother of two cubs climbs a Pacific crab apple tree to grab its tart and tiny fruit. In years when autumn salmon numbers are low, the bears must find other food, such as wild berries, lupine roots, and mussels.

Although spirit bears are extremely reclusive, this young male boldly made repeated trips out of cover into the open to fish. The bears share the forest with wolves, bald eagles, and—warily—grizzly bears.

In a forest dominated by second-growth trees, a young bear settles into a mossy day bed at the foot of a giant, old-growth western red cedar. Bears use such day beds to rest and sleep after a meal.

Safe and secure for now, the spirit bear recently gained additional protection when British Columbia made it an offense of up to $104,000 ($100,000 Canadian) to shoot a white bear anywhere in the province.

With a population of 400 to as many as a thousand, the spirit bear may owe its survival to the protective traditions of the First Nations, who never hunted the animals or spoke of them to fur trappers.

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