Man-Animal Conflict: This time a bear pays the price
A historical entry from the OASIS animal picture blog. Original observations and discussion are preserved; this entry has not received a new veterinary review. Some photographs show clinical procedures.
The bear in these pictures was reported by local residents (in a hamlet along the city forest) to be a voracious carnivore having eaten many livestock and humans too, apart from destroying standing crops in their fields.
The competent authorities along with a paranoid public tried to capture the bear and somehow in the excitement (I don’t wish to give the exact reasons), the bear, a fully grown male, died.
From the post-mortem no trace of any animal/human meal was found, all it had had were wild fruits.
A good deposit of sub-cutaneous and peritoneal fat
Just emptying the bladder
The stomach is full of fruit; notice the polythene bag, even the wild animals are not safe from our mindless violation of the environment.
The much sought after and one of the resons for mindless killing of bears – the gall bladder filled with bile. Much in demand because of its use in Chinese medicine, a Kg of bile powder costs $600 (US) in China, while in Japan a whole gall bladder like the one in this picture can fetch up to $33,000 (US) per Kg.
A wasted bear; could this have been prevented???
From the original discussion
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Our animals cannot live with safety till our government does not seal down all the porous borders.
It is a shameful on our part as humans. On the top of the food chain, do we have the right to take what we can not create. Generating awareness and curbing greed is easier said than done. No one to blame but us.
Better late than never, its our responsibility to save the species and safeguard our fragile ecosystem.
A brutal act to fill their pockets.