它是一种黑熊,但却天生雪白毛皮。它生活在大熊雨林中,受到当地土著居民的高度保护。相比普通的黑熊,它是捕鱼能手。它皮毛变白是因为隐形基因突变,但科学家们至今也无法确定这种基因突变的起因。这种极为珍稀的动物被称为“白灵熊”,也叫“克莫德熊”。让我们跟随作者进入神秘幽暗的丛林,一起寻找这种精灵之熊吧!
With a wildlife guide, I stepped on a journey to find one of the rarest creatures in the world—the spirit bear, a walking contradiction—a white black bear. Neither albino nor polar bear, the spirit bear (also known as the Kermode bear[1]) is a white variant of the North American black bear, and it’s found almost exclusively here in the Great Bear Rainforest. At 25,000 square miles—one and a half times as big as Switzerland—the region runs 250 miles down Canada’s western coast. It also consists of a vast network of mist-shrouded fjords, densely forested islands, and glacier-capped mountains. Grizzlies, black bears, wolves, wolverines, humpback whales, and orcas thrive along this coast. It’s a spooky[2], wild, mysterious place: there are wolves here that fish. Deer that swim. Western red cedar trees that have stood a thousand years. And a black bear that is white.
At first we did not see any spirit bear. My guide Robinson scanned for movement. No bears. But then he spotted a tuft of white fur snagged on an alder branch. “They’re around here, for sure,” he said. He pointed to the chewed bark. “They like to stand and bite the tree just to say to other bears, I’m here using this river.” An hour passed. Robinson and I waited patiently on top of a moss-patched boulder. Then he heard a rustling in the bush. “There he is,” he said.
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