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Seekers is a novel series written by Tui T. Sutherland and Cherith Baldry under the pseudonym Erin Hunter, who also wrote the Warriors series. Seekers follows the adventures of four bear cubs: Kallik (a polar bear), Lusa (an American black bear), Ujurak (a small grizzly bear who can shape-shift into any animal), and Toklo (also a grizzly bear).
The Brown Bear of Norway is an Irish fairy tale collected by Patrick Kennedy which appeared in his Legendary Fictions of the Irish Celts (1866). [1] It was later included by Andrew Lang in his anthology The Lilac Fairy Book (1910), though Lang misattributed his source as West Highland Tales (cf. The Brown Bear of the Green Glen). [2]
Haruyoshi Ōkawa (Japanese: 大川 春義, Hepburn: Ōkawa Haruyoshi, 1909 – December 9, 1985) was a Japanese hunter.Born in Sankebetsu, Tomamae, Hokkaido, he was one of the few witnesses of the Sankebetsu brown bear incident.
The brown bear (Ursus arctos) is a large bear native to Eurasia and North America. Of the land carnivorans, it is rivaled in size only by its closest relative, the polar bear, which is much less variable in size and slightly bigger on average. The brown bear is a sexually dimorphic species, as adult males are larger and more compactly built ...
Moritake Kimura was born in February 25, 1920, in Sapporo, Hokkaido. [2] His father, who was from Aomori Prefecture and worked as a forestry official in the Tōhoku region and Hokkaido, and maternal uncle told him about the Sankebetsu brown bear incident, which caused the most damage in Japanese history, when he was a child, and it left a strong impression on him.
Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See? is a children's picture book published in 1967 by Henry Holt and Company, Inc. [1] Written by Bill Martin Jr. and illustrated by Eric Carle, the book is designed to help toddlers associate colors and meanings to animals.
The brown bear has long been extinct in the British Isles (at least 1,500 years ago, possibly even 3,000 years ago), [17] [18] Denmark (about 6,500 years ago), [19] the Netherlands (about 1,000 years ago, although later singles rarely wandered from Germany), [20] Belgium and Luxembourg, with more recent extinctions in Germany (in the year 1835 ...
Yamamoto Heikichi around 1913. Yamamoto Heikichi (Japanese: 山本 兵吉, 1858 – July 1950) was a Japanese hunter.He is best known as a local hero for killing Kesagake, the giant brown bear involved in the Sankebetsu brown bear incident.