
Great Bear Rainforest, British Columbia #2
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Great Bear Rainforest, British Columbia #2
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Carl D. Walsh
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Photograph - Photograph
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In the temperate rain forest on British Columbia's mountainous central coast lives a very rare bear. Known as the white Kermode bear, the "Spirit Bear" and "ghost bear", it is not an albino, or a polar bear drastically out of its range, rather an otherwise common American black bear containing a recessive gene predisposing the white coat. About one in ten are born with this color phase and no more than a few hundred exist in the world, all of them in this remote coastal region of British Columbia. Local Kitasoo legend states that, "Raven,The Creator, went among the bears and turned every tenth bear white to serve as a reminder of a time when the Earth's great glaciers covered the landscape". The sighting of a spirit bear is considered a good omen by Pacific Northwest First Nation peoples.
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January 17th, 2018
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