I'm reading a book and one of the characters has some DNA of a bear, and he carries around this book with pressed flowers, and momentos of every place he's ever been in his life. He doesn't seem to have a firm grip on reality, and whenever someone asks him a question about something, he gets out his book and verifies what they were talking about. Sense he has some DNA of a bear, I think it might be related to that... Any answers?
2007-10-05 11:55:17 · 2 answers · asked by Athena_Starfire 1 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Biology
I'm not sure, but I think it's pretty darned sure it's good. I used to live in Alaska, and there was a grizzly bear that we had darted and moved over 50 miles away, and he came right back!
2007-10-05 12:05:00 · answer #1 · answered by Kitten S 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Bears remember food sites from year to year. Once trapped they rarely will take the bait again. In the parks bears learn how backpackers stash their food in trees, come up with methods of obtaining it and do the same year after year. Mothers teach their young food gathering methods around humans and location and the young carry that information from year to year. Bears know what an ice chest looks like and once successful will toss around any ice-chest they find, empty or full untill it opens. Learned behavior or memory? I don't know, but I do know the above from experience
2007-10-05 19:54:45 · answer #2 · answered by paul 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋