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Old Mud
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Her race should be Proud of her. As i'm sure they are.
Wrong Guinea, not the South Pacific New Guinea, but the African Guinea...Dam, i so wanted to go to New Guinea.
ROTFLMAO, The Bird Wars are starting, and how appropriate, it's all about TWEETS!!!
A crowd hoping to see a snowy owl gathered at the reservoir in Central Park. Some birders complain that large groups can disturb rare species. Credit...Dave Sanders for The New York Times
In 2018 it was the Mandarin duck. Last October it was the barred owl. Just weeks ago it was the snowy owl.
All three avian species catapulted to celebrity status after they landed in Central Park, becoming the subject of news reports from Manhattan to India and attracting gaggles of groupies, snapping away on their smartphones.
These rare glimpses of nature in the heart of New York elicit a dose of joy in the best of times. But those feelings of uplift are magnified during the pandemic, when so many people are seeking respite in the outdoors.
Behind these idyllic encounters with nature, however, a vigorous debate is roiling the city’s birding community.
On one side are people eager to broadcast these flying visitors on social media, which they say allows birders to catch a glimpse of species they might otherwise never see.
On the other are birders who believe that indiscriminately publicizing the locations of sensitive birds attracts hordes of gawkers, who can disturb the animals, and violates the serendipitous aspect of birding.
Perhaps the most prominent of the avian paparazzi is David Barrett, whose Manhattan Bird Alert account on Twitter, which has more than 42,000 followers, has turned birds into boldfaced names.
“The main attraction of the account is the high level of bird photography and videography, but serious birders still do get their rare bird alerts,” Mr. Barrett said, adding that his account helped “make everyone’s birding more effective.”
A barred owl, whose visit to Central Park has been promoted by some birders, including one who maintains the popular Twitter account Manhattan Bird Alert. Credit...Dave Sanders for The New York Times
But to Ken Chaya, president of the Linnaean Society of New York, one of the city’s oldest birding organizations, Mr. Barrett’s account seems focused more on self promotion than protecting birds.
“There’s a fine line between sharing information about a sensitive bird and creating a flash mob,” Mr. Chaya said, adding that when you have tens of thousands of “followers you can’t know all of them, or how they behave.”
Mr. Barrett’s account also shares content from a contentious figure in local birding circles: Robert DeCandido, who leads bird walks around New York.
Dr. DeCandido’s critics claim that he harasses birds by luring them closer with recorded bird calls and by illuminating owls during nighttime excursions.
Debbie Becker, who for about 30 years has led her own bird walks in the New York Botanical Garden, described using recorded bird sounds as “extremely detrimental to the birds.”
“He’s playing a distress call,” Ms. Becker said, adding, “It’s like someone yelling ‘Help me!’”
But Dr. DeCandido said his tactics did not harm the birds, noting that “we change their behavior for a minute, then they go back to doing what they’re doing.”
“I have yet to stun a bird, knock it out of a tree, kill a bird,” he added.
Mr. Barrett said that as long as Dr. DeCandido’s tips and photographs were useful, he saw nothing wrong with sharing them.
Despite the back and forth among passionate birders, none of the celebrity birds appear to have been harmed by the spotlight.
The snowy owl landed in a fenced-off part of Central Park on Jan. 27, and park rangers kept overzealous onlookers back. Mr. Barrett sent a warning to his followers to give space to the snowy owl — the first spotted in Central Park in 130 years — and, in the end, crows and a hawk harried the owl more than birders. It left after a day. (More recently, a snowy owl, likely the same one, has been spotted near the Central Park Reservoir, the sightings dutifully reported by Mr. Barrett.)
Still, some birding groups said that letting others know the location of sensitive birds sometimes required more consideration than simply firing off a tweet.
Jeffrey Gordon, the president of the American Birding Association, said “birding is built on sharing,” but “we think it’s very important to temper that impulse to share information freely with” understanding the real world impacts of doing so.
Kathryn Heintz, the executive director of New York City Audubon, wrote in an email that “because owls are easily disturbed, we do not condone the public posting of owl locations.”
Of course, an owl’s arrival at one of the most visited urban parks on the planet would be hard to keep secret no matter what.
“A ‘celebrity’ snowy owl certainly draws a crowd — and it should,” Ms. Heintz said.
Crowds of birders have sometimes led to unfortunate outcomes. In rural Washington five years ago, a local man killed a northern hawk owl, a protected species, because he was angered that birders were photographing the bird in the area. He was fined $5,000.
The scene in Central Park is usually more placid. (Last year, however, an argument between a Black birder and a white woman became part of the national conversation over entrenched racism after the woman called the police when the man asked her to leash her dog.)
The park is a popular birding spot because it is a home or stopover for many avian species that can be reached easily with the swipe of a MetroCard.
That has become especially true during the pandemic, when homebound New Yorkers have desperately sought safe and socially distanced pastimes.
Susan Schwartz, a writer who lives on the Upper West Side of Manhattan, said she and her husband — encouraged by the bird alert account — began spending up to 10 hours a day watching birds after wearying of life in lockdown.
“Otherwise my head would have exploded long ago,” Ms. Schwartz said.
David Barrett, who started Manhattan Bird Alert, fed peanuts to a cardinal in Central Park. He said his account helped “make everyone’s birding more effective.” Credit...Dave Sanders for The New York Times
For Mr. Barrett, 57, a retired hedge fund manager who lives on the Upper East Side, managing the account has practically become a job, though he derives no income from it. He says he spends almost every waking hour maintaining it.
On most days he follows tips about different birds gleaned from friends, followers and services like eBird, a website and app from the Cornell Ornithology Lab where birders report sightings.
As Mr. Barrett races around the park he converses with followers online, sharing sightings, photos and video.
On a recent frigid visit to Central Park, Mr. Barrett was deep in the Ramble, a wooded section that was teeming with avian life — several red-tailed hawks, one of which flew just above a reporter’s head; a flitting kestrel; and myriad songbirds, including titmice that Mr. Barrett fed by hand.
At one point Mr. Barrett pointed out a barred owl, very likely the famous barred owl, perched about 40 feet off the ground in a hemlock tree. The owl seemed unbothered by the small cluster of people pointing and taking pictures far below, and barely flinched when a Cooper’s hawk screamed and swooped by its branch.
Dera Nevin, 49, a lawyer who lives on the Upper West Side and frequently runs in the park, said she and a friend had taken a mid-run break to see the owl, which they located with a tip from a friend who follows the bird alert account.
“I think it’s doing wonders for educating people about birds,” Ms. Nevin said of the account.
Educating new birders is one of Mr. Barrett’s main purposes, he said, and even his critics conceded that Manhattan Bird Alert was an effective outreach tool.
“If you want to cause zero disturbance for birds,” he said, “stay home.”
Twitter Is Turning Birds Into Celebrities and Birders Against One Another
A Twitter account helped spread the word about rare birds in New York City, but publicizing their locations exposed a rift among birders.A crowd hoping to see a snowy owl gathered at the reservoir in Central Park. Some birders complain that large groups can disturb rare species. Credit...Dave Sanders for The New York Times
In 2018 it was the Mandarin duck. Last October it was the barred owl. Just weeks ago it was the snowy owl.
All three avian species catapulted to celebrity status after they landed in Central Park, becoming the subject of news reports from Manhattan to India and attracting gaggles of groupies, snapping away on their smartphones.
These rare glimpses of nature in the heart of New York elicit a dose of joy in the best of times. But those feelings of uplift are magnified during the pandemic, when so many people are seeking respite in the outdoors.
Behind these idyllic encounters with nature, however, a vigorous debate is roiling the city’s birding community.
On one side are people eager to broadcast these flying visitors on social media, which they say allows birders to catch a glimpse of species they might otherwise never see.
On the other are birders who believe that indiscriminately publicizing the locations of sensitive birds attracts hordes of gawkers, who can disturb the animals, and violates the serendipitous aspect of birding.
Perhaps the most prominent of the avian paparazzi is David Barrett, whose Manhattan Bird Alert account on Twitter, which has more than 42,000 followers, has turned birds into boldfaced names.
“The main attraction of the account is the high level of bird photography and videography, but serious birders still do get their rare bird alerts,” Mr. Barrett said, adding that his account helped “make everyone’s birding more effective.”
A barred owl, whose visit to Central Park has been promoted by some birders, including one who maintains the popular Twitter account Manhattan Bird Alert. Credit...Dave Sanders for The New York Times
But to Ken Chaya, president of the Linnaean Society of New York, one of the city’s oldest birding organizations, Mr. Barrett’s account seems focused more on self promotion than protecting birds.
“There’s a fine line between sharing information about a sensitive bird and creating a flash mob,” Mr. Chaya said, adding that when you have tens of thousands of “followers you can’t know all of them, or how they behave.”
Mr. Barrett’s account also shares content from a contentious figure in local birding circles: Robert DeCandido, who leads bird walks around New York.
Dr. DeCandido’s critics claim that he harasses birds by luring them closer with recorded bird calls and by illuminating owls during nighttime excursions.
Debbie Becker, who for about 30 years has led her own bird walks in the New York Botanical Garden, described using recorded bird sounds as “extremely detrimental to the birds.”
“He’s playing a distress call,” Ms. Becker said, adding, “It’s like someone yelling ‘Help me!’”
But Dr. DeCandido said his tactics did not harm the birds, noting that “we change their behavior for a minute, then they go back to doing what they’re doing.”
“I have yet to stun a bird, knock it out of a tree, kill a bird,” he added.
Mr. Barrett said that as long as Dr. DeCandido’s tips and photographs were useful, he saw nothing wrong with sharing them.
Despite the back and forth among passionate birders, none of the celebrity birds appear to have been harmed by the spotlight.
The snowy owl landed in a fenced-off part of Central Park on Jan. 27, and park rangers kept overzealous onlookers back. Mr. Barrett sent a warning to his followers to give space to the snowy owl — the first spotted in Central Park in 130 years — and, in the end, crows and a hawk harried the owl more than birders. It left after a day. (More recently, a snowy owl, likely the same one, has been spotted near the Central Park Reservoir, the sightings dutifully reported by Mr. Barrett.)
Still, some birding groups said that letting others know the location of sensitive birds sometimes required more consideration than simply firing off a tweet.
Jeffrey Gordon, the president of the American Birding Association, said “birding is built on sharing,” but “we think it’s very important to temper that impulse to share information freely with” understanding the real world impacts of doing so.
Kathryn Heintz, the executive director of New York City Audubon, wrote in an email that “because owls are easily disturbed, we do not condone the public posting of owl locations.”
Of course, an owl’s arrival at one of the most visited urban parks on the planet would be hard to keep secret no matter what.
“A ‘celebrity’ snowy owl certainly draws a crowd — and it should,” Ms. Heintz said.
Crowds of birders have sometimes led to unfortunate outcomes. In rural Washington five years ago, a local man killed a northern hawk owl, a protected species, because he was angered that birders were photographing the bird in the area. He was fined $5,000.
The scene in Central Park is usually more placid. (Last year, however, an argument between a Black birder and a white woman became part of the national conversation over entrenched racism after the woman called the police when the man asked her to leash her dog.)
The park is a popular birding spot because it is a home or stopover for many avian species that can be reached easily with the swipe of a MetroCard.
That has become especially true during the pandemic, when homebound New Yorkers have desperately sought safe and socially distanced pastimes.
Susan Schwartz, a writer who lives on the Upper West Side of Manhattan, said she and her husband — encouraged by the bird alert account — began spending up to 10 hours a day watching birds after wearying of life in lockdown.
“Otherwise my head would have exploded long ago,” Ms. Schwartz said.
David Barrett, who started Manhattan Bird Alert, fed peanuts to a cardinal in Central Park. He said his account helped “make everyone’s birding more effective.” Credit...Dave Sanders for The New York Times
For Mr. Barrett, 57, a retired hedge fund manager who lives on the Upper East Side, managing the account has practically become a job, though he derives no income from it. He says he spends almost every waking hour maintaining it.
On most days he follows tips about different birds gleaned from friends, followers and services like eBird, a website and app from the Cornell Ornithology Lab where birders report sightings.
As Mr. Barrett races around the park he converses with followers online, sharing sightings, photos and video.
On a recent frigid visit to Central Park, Mr. Barrett was deep in the Ramble, a wooded section that was teeming with avian life — several red-tailed hawks, one of which flew just above a reporter’s head; a flitting kestrel; and myriad songbirds, including titmice that Mr. Barrett fed by hand.
At one point Mr. Barrett pointed out a barred owl, very likely the famous barred owl, perched about 40 feet off the ground in a hemlock tree. The owl seemed unbothered by the small cluster of people pointing and taking pictures far below, and barely flinched when a Cooper’s hawk screamed and swooped by its branch.
Dera Nevin, 49, a lawyer who lives on the Upper West Side and frequently runs in the park, said she and a friend had taken a mid-run break to see the owl, which they located with a tip from a friend who follows the bird alert account.
“I think it’s doing wonders for educating people about birds,” Ms. Nevin said of the account.
Educating new birders is one of Mr. Barrett’s main purposes, he said, and even his critics conceded that Manhattan Bird Alert was an effective outreach tool.
“If you want to cause zero disturbance for birds,” he said, “stay home.”
Old Mud
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Oh geez. now i should check my travel plans.
So here's GM's coming Electric Volt Mini-SUV. Oh, it IS NOT AWD? WTF???
GM unveils electric Chevy Bolt compact SUV starting at $34,000
GM unveils electric Chevy Bolt compact SUV starting at $34,000
Read that 23% of the electrical power in TX is wind driven, and it's so cold that a lot of turbines have stopped working.
4 million residents have no power and they have rolling blackouts, 11 dead so far.
www.vox.com
4 million residents have no power and they have rolling blackouts, 11 dead so far.
Why the Texas power grid is struggling to cope with the extreme cold
A sudden spike in energy demand and a loss of natural gas, coal, nuclear, and wind energy during a winter storm triggered blackouts across the state.
www.vox.com
movetheboat
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Charter Boat Captain Who Banned Democrats from Fishing Vessels Was Charged in Capitol Riots Thanks to His Own Social Media Posts
Charter Boat Captain Who Banned Democrats from Fishing Vessels Was Charged in Capitol Riots Thanks to His Own Social Media Posts
lmao
wader
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Home invasion suspect dies after 82-year-old man fights back
A man accused of attacking a South Carolina couple inside their home ended up dead after being bludgeoned to the floor by the 82-year-old husband, authorities said Tuesday. The couple told the Aiken County Sheriff's Office that a man came to their door Monday afternoon and forced his way into...
wader
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Couple Accused of Shooting a Woman Who Shushed Them in a Movie Theater Have Been Arrested
An Atlanta couple was arrested by U.S. Marshals in Indiana more than a month after they were accused of shooting a woman for shushing them at the movies.
What the f...?
wader
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'It was nothing short of a miracle': Charter boat captain recounts rescue of man stranded 36 hours at sea
When Capt. Chase Cornell noticed a blip on the radar of the charter boat he was operating off the coast of Florida, he said he initially thought it signaled it was going to be a good day of fishing for his six passengers. As he maneuvered his boat, dubbed the Southern Eagle, toward where the...
He said the rescuee, a Jamaican national whose name has not been released, told the crew he was with six fellow passengers who remain lost at sea after they were all thrown overboard when their vessel flipped over in rough waters. Lynch said the man told him and his crewmates that he’d been in the water for about 36 hours and had drifted more than 100 miles north.
Never could quite figure out why people keep these flying rats...
Pigeon Guys Face Tough Times: ‘Who Has the Money? Who Has the Roof?’
Pigeon Guys Face Tough Times: ‘Who Has the Money? Who Has the Roof?’
Pigeon Guys Face Tough Times: ‘Who Has the Money? Who Has the Roof?’
Damn, there goes the price of veal cutlets. Another unforeseen issue with the polar vortex...
pressherald.com/2021/02/18/its-so-cold-that-calves-ears-are-falling-off/
By Michael Hirtzer, Isis Almeida and Kim ChipmanFebruary 18, 2021
In Arkansas, ranchers are fitting pantyhose over the heads of calves in a desperate attempt to keep them warm. In Montana, they’ve been duct-taping calves’ ears to their necks to stop them from falling off. In Oklahoma, newborns arrived onto snow-packed frozen ground and perished while ranchers were reportedly sticking the hardest-hit animals in the front seat of pickup trucks and even inside their homes.
Across the American Plains, South and Southwest, the unprecedented cold of this past week has been brutal on millions of residents. For the flora and fauna – as well as those who make their living cultivating them – it’s been equally disastrous, a Darwinian mix of outlandish and gruesome.
“It’s survival of the fittest right now,” said Tyler Beaver, a founder of brokerage Beaf Cattle Co. in Arkansas. “Lot of hay having to be put out on a daily basis just to keep the cows warm enough to not freeze to death.”
Scores of broiler houses, where chickens are raised, were without power. In Mississippi, four broiler houses were destroyed from collapsed roofs overwhelmed by snow and ice.
Dale Murden, who raises both citrus and cattle in Harlingen, Texas said, “The whole state from the panhandle to the tip of Texas is just a mess.”
Farmers are struggling to get food and water to their herds.
Cattleman Clay Burtrum lost two calves Wednesday in Stillwater, Oklahoma. He’d been making the rounds to animals, rolling out bales of hay, replenishing feed and breaking ice in watering stations. With calving season in full swing, he couldn’t keep up.
“They were born on the snow, there wasn’t anything that could be done,” he said.
Jake Feddes in Manhattan, Montana has been duct-taping the ears of baby calves to their necks.
“Their ears will get frostbit and fall off,” Feddes said by phone, adding that they can succumb to hypothermia.
Beef packers including Cargill and Tyson Foods were forced to shut down meat plants due to energy constraints. Consumers stocking up have also cleared store shelves of food while there are long lines at fuel stations.
The weather woes, in addition to killing some young animals, will slow the rate of weight gains in cattle as they use energy to stay warm. Lighter animals will mean smaller supplies later this year, a time when consumers already were expected to be paying higher prices for meat due to soaring animal feed prices.
Chicago cattle futures rose to a one-year high earlier this week as the industry was hit by the weather. Prices fell 1.3 percent on Wednesday.
Meanwhile, a cow whose calf died will be a sunk cost. “I won’t reap the benefits of that cycle for two more years” when they have another calf, Burtrum said.
It’s so cold that calves’ ears are falling off
By Michael Hirtzer, Isis Almeida and Kim ChipmanFebruary 18, 2021
In Arkansas, ranchers are fitting pantyhose over the heads of calves in a desperate attempt to keep them warm. In Montana, they’ve been duct-taping calves’ ears to their necks to stop them from falling off. In Oklahoma, newborns arrived onto snow-packed frozen ground and perished while ranchers were reportedly sticking the hardest-hit animals in the front seat of pickup trucks and even inside their homes.
Across the American Plains, South and Southwest, the unprecedented cold of this past week has been brutal on millions of residents. For the flora and fauna – as well as those who make their living cultivating them – it’s been equally disastrous, a Darwinian mix of outlandish and gruesome.
“It’s survival of the fittest right now,” said Tyler Beaver, a founder of brokerage Beaf Cattle Co. in Arkansas. “Lot of hay having to be put out on a daily basis just to keep the cows warm enough to not freeze to death.”
Scores of broiler houses, where chickens are raised, were without power. In Mississippi, four broiler houses were destroyed from collapsed roofs overwhelmed by snow and ice.
Dale Murden, who raises both citrus and cattle in Harlingen, Texas said, “The whole state from the panhandle to the tip of Texas is just a mess.”
Farmers are struggling to get food and water to their herds.
Cattleman Clay Burtrum lost two calves Wednesday in Stillwater, Oklahoma. He’d been making the rounds to animals, rolling out bales of hay, replenishing feed and breaking ice in watering stations. With calving season in full swing, he couldn’t keep up.
“They were born on the snow, there wasn’t anything that could be done,” he said.
Jake Feddes in Manhattan, Montana has been duct-taping the ears of baby calves to their necks.
“Their ears will get frostbit and fall off,” Feddes said by phone, adding that they can succumb to hypothermia.
Beef packers including Cargill and Tyson Foods were forced to shut down meat plants due to energy constraints. Consumers stocking up have also cleared store shelves of food while there are long lines at fuel stations.
The weather woes, in addition to killing some young animals, will slow the rate of weight gains in cattle as they use energy to stay warm. Lighter animals will mean smaller supplies later this year, a time when consumers already were expected to be paying higher prices for meat due to soaring animal feed prices.
Chicago cattle futures rose to a one-year high earlier this week as the industry was hit by the weather. Prices fell 1.3 percent on Wednesday.
Meanwhile, a cow whose calf died will be a sunk cost. “I won’t reap the benefits of that cycle for two more years” when they have another calf, Burtrum said.
Baltimore activist's idea to bring down murder rate: pay killers not to kill
BALTIMORE (WBFF) - Tyree Moorehead has spent years in Baltimore’s streets. If you don’t know his name, drive through the city and you’ll see his mark. No shoot zones, the sidewalk, streetside sacred space where, after murder, there should be no more killing there. He recognizes even that hasn’t...
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wader
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Alaska woman using outhouse attacked by bear, from below
An Alaska woman had the scare of a lifetime when using an outhouse in the backcountry and she was attacked by a bear, from below. “I got out there and sat down on the toilet and immediately something bit my butt right as I sat down,” Shannon Stevens told The Associated Press on Thursday...
ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — An Alaska woman had the scare of a lifetime when using an outhouse in the backcountry and she was attacked by a bear, from below.
“I got out there and sat down on the toilet and immediately something bit my butt right as I sat down,” Shannon Stevens told The Associated Press on Thursday. “I jumped up and I screamed when it happened.”
Her brother heard the screaming and went out to the outhouse, about 150 feet (45.72 meters) away from the yurt. There, he found Shannon tending to her wound. They at first thought she had been bitten by a squirrel or a mink, or something small.
Erik brought his headlamp with him to see what it was.
“I opened the toilet seat and there’s just a bear face just right there at the level of the toilet seat, just looking right back up through the hole, right at me,” he said.
“I just shut the lid as fast as I could. I said, ‘There’s a bear down there, we got to get out of here now,’” he said. “And we ran back to the yurt as fast as we could.”
wader
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2-month-old ferret clone marks milestone in animal conservation
Two-month-old Elizabeth Ann was created from the frozen cells of a ferret that died more than 30 years ago.
Elizabeth Ann is just 2 months old, but her extraordinary life is already making history. This black-footed ferret is a clone of an animal that died more than 30 years ago, and she is the first successful clone of any endangered species native to the U.S.
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service said on Thursday that Elizabeth Ann's birth on December 10 was a "bold step forward" in the efforts to increase the genetic diversity and disease resistance of black-footed ferrets, which were once thought to be extinct. The species has been listed as endangered since 1967, and is North America's only native ferret.
Avenger
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Alaska woman using outhouse attacked by bear, from below
An Alaska woman had the scare of a lifetime when using an outhouse in the backcountry and she was attacked by a bear, from below. “I got out there and sat down on the toilet and immediately something bit my butt right as I sat down,” Shannon Stevens told The Associated Press on Thursday...www.yahoo.com
ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — An Alaska woman had the scare of a lifetime when using an outhouse in the backcountry and she was attacked by a bear, from below.
“I got out there and sat down on the toilet and immediately something bit my butt right as I sat down,” Shannon Stevens told The Associated Press on Thursday. “I jumped up and I screamed when it happened.”
Her brother heard the screaming and went out to the outhouse, about 150 feet (45.72 meters) away from the yurt. There, he found Shannon tending to her wound. They at first thought she had been bitten by a squirrel or a mink, or something small.
Erik brought his headlamp with him to see what it was.
“I opened the toilet seat and there’s just a bear face just right there at the level of the toilet seat, just looking right back up through the hole, right at me,” he said.
“I just shut the lid as fast as I could. I said, ‘There’s a bear down there, we got to get out of here now,’” he said. “And we ran back to the yurt as fast as we could.”
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