Pa. hunter bags rare albino black bear
Tue Nov 20, 8:58 PM ET
SPRING MILLS, Pa. - A Westmoreland County man is having a memorable 2007 bear season. Tom Wisniowski bagged a rare albino black bear Monday on the season's opening day. The female cub weighed 47 pounds.
Wisniowski told The Sentinel in Lewistown that conditions were difficult and at first he thought he was looking at a coyote. But when the bear got a bit closer, he could tell it was an unusual bear.
Wisniowski was hunting with Jeff Gowen of Evansburg and Richard Marther and Andrew Duncan, both of Erie. All four killed bear while hunting together in Centre County.
2007-11-21 08:31:17 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous in Sports ➔ Outdoor Recreation ➔ Hunting
if it was a true albino,with pink eyes and lack of any color pigment ,then it is truely rare.in Alaska and north west Canada have color phase black bears ,from Cinnamon to Blondie and some whites.I'm a hunter and cant say i would be proud of a 47 lb bear regardless of color.in my state the must be at least 100 lb.
2007-11-21 21:28:09 · answer #1 · answered by joe t 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Even though PA now has a very active and growing black bear population, one of the largest in the country, they should bring back some of their older regulations!
No bear under 100 lbs or 1 year of age could be harvested up to a few years ago.
I wouldn't consider a 47 lb bear, no more than a very small cub, a "trophy" no matter what the color phase was.
2007-11-21 17:41:14 · answer #2 · answered by outdoors.guy54 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Not at all. Polar Bears and Black Bears are separate species. The basic characteristics of an albino are red eyes and no dark pigmentation. As a polar bear has dark eyes and black skin underneath their seemingly white fur, they do not qualify as albinos.
2016-04-05 02:19:47 · answer #3 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Sorry, but this makes me sad. The Big Bad Bear Hunter bags a Cub? Albino or Green, that's just wrong.
In answer to your question, no I haven't heard of an Albino Black Bear.
2007-11-23 01:59:54 · answer #4 · answered by kayboff 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
True albinos are rare. I've heard of black bears in Kermode (white), Glacier (a very pale blue), Cinamon, Brown and black. According to the hunter training program in BC they can be in any one of 14 color phases.
2007-11-22 00:59:33 · answer #5 · answered by LostInSpaces 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
well its not exactly a black bear if its albino......a variant of a polar bear i can imagin (haha jk)
2007-11-21 16:09:02 · answer #6 · answered by Tyler G 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yet another bear killed and a rare one at that. Would have been much better if the bear had killed the hunter. Albino black bears are very rare. Hunters are 10 a penny.
2007-11-21 09:38:36 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 8⤋
ive heard that black come in white naturally also they come in brown too
2007-11-21 10:44:44 · answer #8 · answered by cowboyjag 2 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Yes I have.
2007-11-21 11:16:07 · answer #9 · answered by duckkillerdan 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
are they ginger as well ? secret larf here,hehe
2007-11-21 09:39:48 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋