Brown Bears Are Audubon Arctic Wall Calendar 2022 September Animals

Summary: Brown bears are Audubon Arctic Wall Calendar 2022 September animals whom the National Audubon Society appreciates in Arctic and near-Arctic North America.

"God talks to human beings through many vectors: through each other, through organized religion, through the great books of those religions, through wise people, through art and music and literature and poetry, but nowhere with such detail and grace and color and joy as through creation. When we destroy a species, when we destroy a special place, we're diminishing our capacity to sense the divine, understand who God is and what our own potential is." Robert Francis Kennedy Jr., April 19, 2023, Boston Park Plaza Hotel, Back Bay, Boston, Massachusetts.

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"Ursus-Ferox, Lewis & Clark. Grizzley Bears. Males," Drawn from Nature by J.W. Audubon (John Woodhouse Audubon, John James Audubon's second son; Nov. 30, 1812-Feb. 21, 1862); Lith'd Print'd & Col'd by J.T. Bowen, Philad'a, 1848; John James Audubon, The viviparous quadrupeds of North America, vol. III (1848), No. 23, Plate CXXXI: No copyright (Public Domain Mark 1.0), via University of Michigan Library Digital Collections

Brown bears are Audubon Arctic Wall Calendar 2022 September animals whom the National Audubon Society appreciates both as northernmost Unitedstatesian wildlife and as northwest Canadian wildlife in Arctic and near-Arctic North America.

The Carnivora (from Latin carō, “flesh, meat” and -vorus, “-devouring” via Latin carnivorus)) cat- and dog-ancestored order member breeds May through July and boasts autumn-implanted embryos. The Caniformia (from Latin canis, “dog” and -fōrmis, “having the form of”) dog-like suborder member carries 1 embryo, perhaps 2 to 4 embryos, for early-winter gestation. The Arctoidea (from Greek ἄρκτος, “bear” and -ῐκός, “of” via Latin arcticus and -oidea, “resembling”) bear-like infraorder member develops brown-bear mother-and-cub social units of 2.5-year-long durations.

The Ursidae (from Latin ursus, “bear” and Greek -ειδής, “resembling” via Latin -idæ) bear family member’s 25- to 50-year life cycles entail 180- to 266-day-gestated newborns.

Afghanistan, Albania, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, China, Croatia, Estonia, Finland, France, Georgia, Greece, India, Iran, Iraq, Italy, Japan, Kazakhstan, Korea, Kyrgyzstan, Latvia, Mongolia, Montenegro, Nepal, North Macedonia, Norway, Pakistan, Poland, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Tajikistan, Türkiye, Ukraine and Uzbekistan accommodate brown bears. Perhaps Andorra, Austria, Czechia, Lebanon, Switzerland, Syria and Turkmenistan still accommodate their populations; Geographic distribution of Brown Bear (Ursus arctos), with distribution data from the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species, assessed in 2008 by B.N. McLellan, C. Servheen and D. Huber in IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2013.2: Hannu~commonswiki; IUCN Red List of Threatened Species, species assessors and the authors of the spatial data, CC BY SA 3.0 Unported, via Wikimedia Commons

Ursus arctos (from Latin ursus, “bear” and ἄρκτος, “bear” via Latin arctōs) features 11.99- to 23.99-ounce (340- to 680-gram) newborns with January through March birth months.

The maritime bear, gauged by Carl Linnaeus (May 23, 1707-Jan. 10, 1778), guards weaned 18- to 30-month-olds, independent 2- to 3-year-olds and mature 4- to 7-year-olds. Alaska, Idaho, Montana, Washington and Wyoming and Alberta, British Columbia, Northwest Territories, Nunavut and Yukon Territory house brown bears, also hailed as grizzly and Kodiak bears. Canadian and Unitedstatesian brown bears install themselves in forests and on open inhabitations and tundra (from Lappish тӯннтрэ, “treeless mountain tract, treeless uplands” via Russian ту́ндра).

Brown bears journey, as Audubon Arctic Wall Calendar 2022 September animals, from 1,300- to 9,800-foot (396.24- to 2,987.04-meter), mountainous, vegetated North American altitudes above sea level.

Female brown bears achieve matings May through July that account for cub births January through March through total gestations of 180 to 266 days. Fertilized eggs acquire embryo implantation status about five months later, October through December, for 6- to 8-week actual gestations. Brown bear mothers alert their two to three newborns to skill acquisitions from 18- to 30-month nursing schedules through 2- to 3-year dependencies. Twenty-five- to 50-year life expectancies allow female and male brown bears sexual maturity as 4- to 6-year-olds and physical maturity as 10- to 11-year-olds; "Grizzly bear cubs often imitate their mothers closely"; Thursday, Sep. 17, 2009, 01:35:15, image of "Grizzly Bear -- Sow and cubs," NPS Photo / Tim Rains: Denali National Park and Preserve (DenaliNPS), CC BY 2.0 Generic, via Flickr

Ants, black bears, caribou, carrion, deer, fish, fruits, fungi, grasses, ground squirrels, insects, marmots, mice, moose, moss, newborn elk, salmon, sedges kindle brown bears’ vegetable-driven diets.

Each newborn in 1- to 4-cub litters of polar bear mothers logs 12- to 14-inch- (30.48- to 35.56-centimeter-) long, 16- to 28-ounce (496.12- to 793.79-gram) bodies. Mature, left-jaw, right-jaw, 34- to 42-tooth, brown-bear dentitions manifest 3 upper/3 lower incisors, 1 upper/1 lower canine, 2-4 upper/2-4 lower pre-molars and 2 upper/3 lower molars. Claws, jaws, muscles and 4.2-mile (6.76-kilometer) walking and 35-mile (56.33-kilometer) running hourly speeds not always net polar-bear victories over predatory bears, mountain lions, people and wolves.

Polar bears as Audubon Arctic Wall Calendar 2022 September animals offer dish-shaped faces, four five-toed paws each with super-long claws, massive forelegs and prominent shoulder humps.

Brown bears ally claws with muscular body parts, such as their all-muscle shoulder humps, for a strength perhaps 2.5 to 5 times greater than predatory humans. Blunt, straight, 2- to 2.4-inch- (5- to 6-centimeter-) long claws, 2.8- to 3.9-inch- (7- to 10-centimeter-) long along the curve, anchor parts just front of their foot pads. Physically and sexually mature brown bears anticipate rear feet, averaged at 8.3 to 14.2 inches (21 to 36 centimeters) long, 40 percent longer than front feet and all four feet averaged with 6.9- to 7.9-inch- (17.5- to 20-centimeter-) widths; July 7, 2015, image of "front paws of a brown bear," NPS/Kaiti Critz, Katmai National Park and Preserve, Alaska Peninsula, southwestern Alaska: via National Park Service Photos & Multimedia

Brown bears of North American alpine meadows and tundra, dense cover-proximitous coastlines, high mountains and subalpine forests possess 2.4- to 8.3-inch- (6.09- to 21.08-centimeter-) long tails.

Mature females, black-nosed, brown-eyed and round- and short-eared like mature males, quarter 3.3- to 9.2-foot- (1.01- to 2.8-meter-) long, 250- to 450-pound (113.39- to 204.12-kilogram) bodies. Mature males reveal 3- to 4-foot (0.91- to 1.22-meter) shoulder heights, from paw soles to shoulder hump, and 6- to 7-plus-foot (1.83- to 2.13-plus-meter) standing heights. Mature males sound growling, huffing, popping and roaring vocalizations even as they sustain 8- to 9.8-foot- (2.4- to 2.99-meter-) long,350- to 850-plus-pound (158.76- to 385.55-plus-kilogram) bodies.

Kodiak, grizzly, brown bears as Audubon Arctic Wall Calendar 2023 September animals tender black, black-brown, brown, brown-white, yellow-white colors with long-haired manes tipped with gray-white highlights.

Acorns, berries, flowers, forbs, grasses, mosses, mushrooms, pine cones, sedges and shoots answer to brown-bear nutritional needs and preferences. Bison, caribou, elk, ground squirrels, lemmings, marmots, mice, moose, muskoxen, rats, voles and wild boar appeal to brown bears. Birds and their eggs appease brown-bear appetites. Brown bears appreciate clams, crabs and spawning salmon. They apprehend grubs, insects, larvae and summertime moths. They arrive at such foods as bulbs, roots and shoots through their digging-friendly claws and jaws. July 2005 still image of "Ursus arctos brown bear feeding on salmon," Kodiak National Wildlife Refuge, Frazer Lake weir, southern Kodiak Island, southwestern Alaska; photo credit Steve Hillebrand/USFWS (U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service): Public Domain, via USFWS National Digital Library

Acknowledgment

My special thanks to talented artists and photographers/concerned organizations who make their fine images available on the internet.

Image credits:

"Ursus-Ferox, Lewis & Clark. Grizzley Bears. Males," Drawn from Nature by J.W. Audubon (John Woodhouse Audubon, John James Audubon's second son; Nov. 30, 1812-Feb. 21, 1862); Lith'd Print'd & Col'd by J.T. Bowen, Philad'a, 1848; John James Audubon, The viviparous quadrupeds of North America, vol. III (1848), No. 23, Plate CXXXI: No copyright (Public Domain Mark 1.0), via University of Michigan Library Digital Collections @ https://quod.lib.umich.edu/s/sclaudubon/x-b6719891/29375_0035; Public Domain, via The New York Public Library Digital Collections @ https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/510d47da-7898-a3d9-e040-e00a18064a99; J.J. Audubon, The Quadrupeds of North America, vol. III (1854), Copyright Status: Not provided; contact Holding Institution to verify copyright status, via Biodiversity Heritage Library @ https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/34897147; Biodiversity Heritage Library (BioDivLibrary), Public Domain, via Flickr @ https://www.flickr.com/photos/61021753@N02/7752415820/; (Nothing about copyright), via Internet Archive @ https://archive.org/details/quadrupedsofnort03audu/page/n218/mode/1up

Afghanistan, Albania, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, China, Croatia, Estonia, Finland, France, Georgia, Greece, India, Iran, Iraq, Italy, Japan, Kazakhstan, Korea, Kyrgyzstan, Latvia, Mongolia, Montenegro, Nepal, North Macedonia, Norway, Pakistan, Poland, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Tajikistan, Türkiye, Ukraine and Uzbekistan accommodate brown bears. Perhaps Andorra, Austria, Czechia, Lebanon, Switzerland, Syria and Turkmenistan still accommodate their populations; Geographic distribution of Brown Bear (Ursus arctos), with distribution data from the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species, assessed in 2008 by B.N. McLellan, C. Servheen and D. Huber in IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2013.2: Hannu~commonswiki; IUCN Red List of Threatened Species, species assessors and the authors of the spatial data, CC BY SA 3.0 Unported, via Wikimedia Commons @ https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ursus_arctos_range_map.svg

Female brown bears achieve matings May through July that account for cub births January through March through total gestations of 180 to 266 days. Fertilized eggs acquire embryo implantation status about five months later, October through December, for 6- to 8-week actual gestations. Brown bear mothers alert their two to three newborns to skill acquisitions from 18- to 30-month nursing schedules through 2- to 3-year dependencies. Twenty-five- to 50-year life expectancies allow female and male brown bears sexual maturity as 4- to 6-year-olds and physical maturity as 10- to 11-year-olds; "Grizzly bear cubs often imitate their mothers closely"; Thursday, Sep. 17, 2009, 01:35:15, image of "Grizzly Bear -- Sow and cubs," NPS Photo / Tim Rains: Denali National Park and Preserve (DenaliNPS), CC BY 2.0 Generic, via Flickr @ https://www.flickr.com/photos/denalinps/5728173840/; Denali National Park and Preserve, CC BY 2.0 Generic, via Wikimedia Commons @ https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Grizzly_Bear-_Sow_and_cubs_(5728173840).jpg

Brown bears ally claws with muscular body parts, such as their all-muscle shoulder humps, for a strength perhaps 2.5 to 5 times greater than predatory humans. Blunt, straight, 2- to 2.4-inch- (5- to 6-centimeter-) long claws, 2.8- to 3.9-inch- (7- to 10-centimeter-) long along the curve, anchor parts just front of their foot pads. Physically and sexually mature brown bears anticipate rear feet, averaged at 8.3 to 14.2 inches (21 to 36 centimeters) long, 40 percent longer than front feet and all four feet averaged with 6.9- to 7.9-inch- (17.5- to 20-centimeter-) widths; July 7, 2015, image of "front paws of a brown bear," NPS/Kaiti Critz, Katmai National Park and Preserve, Alaska Peninsula, southwestern Alaska: via National Park Service Photos & Multimedia @ https://www.nps.gov/media/photo/view.htm?id=75BCE4A9-1DD8-B71B-0B5ED548F8D6889F; National Park Service, Public Domain, via Wikimedia Commons @ https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Brown_Bear_Paws.jpg

Acorns, berries, flowers, forbs, grasses, mosses, mushrooms, pine cones, sedges and shoots answer to brown-bear nutritional needs and preferences. Bison, caribou, elk, ground squirrels, lemmings, marmots, mice, moose, muskoxen, rats, voles and wild boar appeal to brown bears. Birds and their eggs appease brown-bear appetites. Brown bears appreciate clams, crabs and spawning salmon. They apprehend grubs, insects, larvae and summertime moths. They arrive at such foods as bulbs, roots and shoots through their digging-friendly claws and jaws. July 2005 still image of "Ursus arctos brown bear feeding on salmon," Kodiak National Wildlife Refuge, Frazer Lake weir, southern Kodiak Island, southwestern Alaska; photo credit Steve Hillebrand/USFWS (U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service): Public Domain, via USFWS National Digital Library @ https://digitalmedia.fws.gov/digital/collection/natdiglib/id/5776/; Steve Hillebrand, Public Domain, via Wikimedia Commons @ https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Brown_Bear_Feeding_on_Salmon_1.jpg

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Marriner, Derdriu. 5 August 2023. "Savannah Sparrows Are Audubon Arctic Wall Calendar 2023 August Birds." Earth and Space News. Saturday.
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Marriner, Derdriu. 6 May 2023. "Moose Appear as May Animals on Audubon Arctic Wall Calendar 2023." Earth and Space News. Saturday.
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Marriner, Derdriu. 1 April 2023. "Arctic Terns Are April Birds on Audubon Arctic Wall Calendar 2023." Earth and Space News. Saturday.
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Marriner, Derdriu. 4 March 2023. "Western Sandpipers Are Audubon Arctic Wall Calendar 2022 March Birds." Earth and Space News. Saturday.
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Marriner, Derdriu. 4 March 2023. "Baffin Island Wolves Are Audubon Arctic Wall Calendar 2023 Wild March." Earth and Space News. Saturday.
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Marriner, Derdriu. 18 February 2023. "Musk Ox, Muskox Are Audubon Arctic Wall Calendar February 2022 Animals." Earth and Space News. Saturday.
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Marriner, Derdriu. 11 February 2023. "Red-Throated Loons Are Audubon Arctic Wall Calendar 2023 February Birds." Earth and Space News. Saturday.
Available @ https://earth-and-space-news.blogspot.com/2023/02/red-throated-loons-are-audubon-arctic.html

Marriner, Derdriu. 21 January 2023. "Mallard Ducks Aced Audubon Arctic Wall Calendar 2022 as January Birds." Earth and Space News. Sunday.
Available @ https://earth-and-space-news.blogspot.com/2023/01/mallard-ducks-aced-audubon-arctic-wall.html

Marriner, Derdriu. 1 January 2023. "Red Foxes Are January Wildlife on Audubon Arctic Wall Calendar 2023." Earth and Space News. Sunday.
Available @ https://earth-and-space-news.blogspot.com/2023/01/red-foxes-are-january-wildlife-on.html

Marriner, Derdriu. 3 December 2022. "Dark-Eyed Juncos Are December Birds on the 2022 Audubon Calendar." Earth and Space News. Saturday.
Available @ https://earth-and-space-news.blogspot.com/2022/12/dark-eyed-juncos-are-december-birds-on.html

Marriner, Derdriu. 26 November 2022. "Eared Grebes Are November Birds on the 2022 Audubon Calendar." Earth and Space News. Saturday.
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Marriner, Derdriu. 1 October 2022. "Barred Owls Are October Birds on the 2022 Audubon Calendar." Earth and Space News. Saturday.
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Marriner, Derdriu. 7 August 2022. "Allen’s Hummingbirds Are August Birds on the 2022 Audubon Calendar." Earth and Space News. Sunday.
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Marriner, Derdriu. 30 July 2022. "Reddish Egrets Are July Birds on the 2022 Audubon Calendar." Earth and Space News. Saturday.
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Marriner, Derdriu. 4 June 2022. "American Oystercatchers Are June Birds on the 2022 Audubon Calendar." Earth and Space News. Saturday.
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Marriner, Derdriu. 5 May 2022. "Rose-Breasted Grosbeaks Are May Birds on the 2022 Audubon Calendar." Earth and Space News. Sunday.
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Marriner, Derdriu. 10 April 2022. "Crested Caracaras Appear as April Birds on the 2022 Audubon Calendar." Earth and Space News. Sunday.
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Marriner, Derdriu. 19 March 2022. "Cerulean Warblers Are March Birds on the 2022 Audubon Calendar." Earth and Space News. Saturday.
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