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Excessive harvest continues to be the most immediate threat to the persistence of Hokkaido brown bears. One of the pleasures of botanizing with Dr. T is that when two roads diverge, we take the one less traveled, which on this occasion led us, in the rental Prius with me at the helm, at the proper and stately botanizing speed of fifteen kays, up a winding, hill-chiseled, single-track logging road, Route , on the Oshima Peninsula at the very southernmost tip of Hokkaido.
There was a bear in the middle of the road. Bears are not among them. This was Ursus arctos so good they named it twice , the Brown Bear, aka the grizzly bear, or in its northeast Asian subspecies incarnation, Ursus arctos lasiotus , the Ussuri brown bear—in Japanese, the higuma.
Memories of what happened next differ. My recollection is that I coolly asked, with the curiosity of the natural scientist, whether it was an adult. T, scrambling around on the back seat for his Nikon.
No Wildlife Photographer of the Year award for Dr. T, then. Later, Dr. Not that—in this case—size mattered: for both of us, it was our first encounter with a bear in the wild, a moment made so much the more magical for being wholly unexpected and unscripted.
Globe-gallivanting Dr. T, one of whose friends is an authority on the Spectacled Bear of the Andes, holds out hope of one day tracking down the inspiration for Paddington Bear in deepest, darkest Peru, but for sedentary city-bound me, this was almost certainly the only bear with whom I will ever cross paths. The following evening, we watch an item on the evening news: an Asian Black Bear, categorized on the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species as vulnerable to extinction, has been driven down into residential districts in the central Japan city of Nagano by a poor season for seeds, nuts, and berries, the dearth of which has been so exasperating Dr.