The Spirit Bear

[@cunninghamwendell]

I live in Oregon. Last spring on the Northeast side of Mt. Hood I thought I saw a sheep ahead ,. WE WERE AMAZED !! NO !!! it was not a sheep! we saw as soon as it stood up that it was a snow white bear. IT WAS A SPIRIT BEAR !! We are so blessed. I have searched... no..... feared running into a bear in the Oregon woods. My life will never be the same. 45 years looking for a bear ... I've seen one A SPIRIT BEAR!!!

[@PJGenovese251]

Wow !!! never heard of them coming down that far south! Amazing what a blessing!

[@LouisWilliamsStormblade]

I'm not surprised that its referred to as a spirit bear. It's so pretty.

[@ramonaking-ky2kn]

Their all beautiful creation’s of God. God bless you for making people aware.

[@daniellebaker4090]

Huh, I learned about a spirit bear from one of my 1st graders! I had NEVER heard of it. Thank you Matthew, you taught me something new today!

[@Rajnoma]

I so agree with Herpkid 56: if only there were fewer people on this overcrowded planet and MORE BEARS!! My wish is that someday bears will take over the world and we will be subservient to the bears. I understand that Native Americans believed the Spirit Bear to be sacred. They certainly seem blessed by an awesome power and a regal stature. Spirit Bears do seem to have an aura of almost supernatural strength and power. They are very, very special bears indeed. To me, all bears are beauties!

[@luckypattie324]

We must protect their habitat. Stop the logging in that forest where only they exist.and ban the hunt of bears or use in entertainment. They are beautiful. Animals and should be understood and respected as we want to in life.

[@ingramalastrine261]

Patricia Kunze Indeed 💝 We should try to understand animals, instead if just exploating them, and then get suprised that many of them are so hostile towards us 😉 (You know what I ment, right?)

[@ace.2D3Y]

Yes..there’s only 400 left of the spirit bear.

[@jennadaigle7508]

@Asher Human convenience is way less important than these bears' lives. All life is sacred. We humans need to stop our destructive rampage across Mother Earth.

[@christinamacleanhubbard1651]

Fascinating!!!!~ I never heard of the Spirit Bear until I watched The Nature of Things. We must protect these beautiful species and our rainforest just like the First Nation people do!~

[@tangerine7306]

Anyone else got this for a school video after reading Touching Spirit Bear? also PROTECT THEIR HABITATS!

[@weacoo7]

What an amazing animal, I would love to see one in the wild. I've come to find out there are millions of acres protected within national parks, biosphere reserves, wildlife refuges, and conservation easements, but there is still a need to protect the habitat of unique animals such as this bear. Wildlife habitat protection should be evenly and widely distributed across all ecosystems.

[@karenfayekal]

spirit of the bear i am the spirit of the bear and i am in such prolonged, deep pain some humans out there think we bears are here to entertain to dance in the circus to be baited and tormented or our parts used for medicine by those humans, demented we belong to the forests, to the mountains and streams this is supposed to be our reality not just in our dreams

[@misstigerlilly7353]

They are beautiful ❤️

[@jewelwilliams8297]

Fascinating vid. I'm working on a school project about Bears of the World. This helped, thanks!

[@cherieestbien1902]

She kinda looks like the polar bear ..... so cute.....💚💙💛❤💜

[@mrskaterdude07]

they are amazingly beautiful

[@miafields325]

I luv spirt bears they r sooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo cute

[@giveahoot101]

First heard about these amazing creatures through the Banff Mountain Film Festival, and they are simply amazing!

[@canadianwildhorses]

great to see, thank you for doing this ,we have to save our wild life,,,i hope we can save our wild horses too,,,and all wild life,,,

[@waz165]

Looks like a polar bear, reading touching spirit bear

[@bradchow7823]

I ❤ SUGAR BEAR 🐻

[@1oolabob]

@nedjimb0, bears can't use guns. How about requiring hunters to use only claws? That would even out the odds.

[@Hamy-xf1ey]

The spirit of the first bear burns immortal in me.

[@yukonnahanni]

It is our wish , that all may enjoy , this Video , but also , whilst after watching this ,, that you will, go on To,, The Wolves of the Rain Forest .. Only thru sharing our knowledge , will we truly learn ..~~~ Thank_ You

[@Wolfsbane909]

@Herpkid56 probably about 300 or so now, people hunting them too simply because they are spirit bears!! They only live in one area, can you guess where they live mostly? Oregon & BC i think.

[@perfecttwo96]

thumbs up if you loved when the bear jumped in the water for the fishie i love these bears, they're so cute !

[@SIGsogger]

i heard 1 out of 10 black bears are spirit bears, and more and more are showing up all over B.C. (in which i live)

[@henrykadorozej9514]

Piękne zwierzęta, piękny świat... Nie niszczcie tego, to jest nasz skarb.

[@Herpkid56]

400 Spirit Bears, 7 billion humans, I would like it if there were less humans and few more bears.

[@JimmyeDallas]

With residential and commercial development, hunters, highways, logging, and not to mention athropogenic climate change. Their are hardly any animals in the world that are threatened with extinction, that are not in one way or another, artificially impacted.

[@joshandnat1]

Save the bear !

[@mndrgn4164]

weren't these supposed to be kept secret or something like that

[@kdk782]

Is there a possibility of the spirit bears being half grizzly, half polar like they have found in Alaska?

[@samc.o.3684]

It's not a hybrid between a Grizzly and a Polar bear, it's a part of the American black bear

[@kennedymedina4234]

No it’s a subspecies of American black bears

[@cl0udgaze862]

And to any POACHERS who would dare hunt such a rare animal... I wish you luck in the afterlife when these animals return to hunt you

[@saytrsarecool1337]

Along with all the white lions the black Panthers and black Jaguars

[@yukonnahanni]

Strange , I left a message a few , minutes ago, about these Beautiful creatures , It was not posted ?? How sad ...

[@reALBOdmonjohnsON]

Imagine throwing this with a polar and see if they find the imposter

[@MayLordHerbRide]

this bear is gangster as fuck

[@stetsondarger9047]

I'm just watching this for school😂😂😂

[@rekolala2992]

This bear is giving me too hard quests!

[@iesroo]

lol

[@qalupalik]

Thanks, Twyla. I hope they’re treating you well in the next life.

[@ajnagekoms4512]

i want one as a pet

[@mrskaterdude07]

@jgoldston96 its not just a polar bear hey are not even related to polar bears they are a black bear with a strange skin coloring

[@Johnyringo4]

. The epiphanous spark suddenly ignited my sensitive Spirit Bear awareness in the most unusual situation. You see, shortly after I had successfully hunted, killed and skinned my 214th Spirit Bear, (impressive eh!), and was leisurely snacking on its tasty innards, it suddenly dawned on me as I proudly stood fitted with a finely crafted two-piece suit made of Spirit Bear skin, "this is one sexy mother fucking bear".

[@Pikminion]

The fur is actually translucent, not white.

[@Chanchila170]

I read the book

[@bananian]

I wonder if the polar bears began as a defect.

[@kennedymedina4234]

They technically are cuz in reality they like an offshot of brown bears

[@arturoherrera2134]

read touching spirit bear its a good book but 12+

[@thearizonarangerwiththebig3874]

poor cole.....doin so many crimes

[@dakotahunter7406]

Arturo Herrera it is a goo book

[@ReptileFrankReynolds]

Nice

[@JeremyMayer37]

You're no daisy! You're no daisy at all.

[@auburnchik10]

leave it to people to want to destroy their only left habitat so we can put down oil lines and roads. we need to preserve the animals so our grandchildren will have animals

[@Ghengis66]

It would be AWESOME to have one of these mounted on my wall

[@mrskaterdude07]

@cstpierrex exactly

[@xEternallly]

SPIRIT BEARRRRR

[@blackqueenwakanda9648]

Albino bear

[@Stevethebastard]

hopefully oil companies dont set down an oil line threw there habitat it will kill the last of them

[@JoanJoan1997]

@Ghengis66 Oh yeah, kiss kiss.

[@bris1]

i guess a raven is the creator of the world now "\_( "_ )_/"

[@StefanTheTeflonDon]

read ghost of spirit bear. its the sequel

[@JoanJoan1997]

@Ghengis66 I already know ENGLISH. I usually have perfect, or close to perfect grammar. Lol, but those are just my beliefs. If you want to hurt such a delicate bear like this, then you should be hurt too. Except the population difference is WAY different. There are millions of people, and MAYBE 400 of those Spirit Bears at the most. Soooo, yeah.

[@jaynicemathis2601]

i think thats cool :D

[@cl0udgaze862]

A real man WOULD harm an animal to feed his family. You are not human.

[@JoanJoan1997]

@Ghengis66 And it would be AWESOME to have your skin up on my wall to.

[@kunaiwithchain5278]

I like bears its sad to see them die :(

[@cunninghamwendell]

THIS BEAR DOES NOT !!!! LIVE ONLY IN THE AREA CLAIMED IN THIS VIDEO... I SAW ONE IN OREGON!!!!

[@plumeria66]

@James29440 Newsflash: we are the one's who already interfered and ended their time here!

[@jonnymooseknuckles]

Lets start the hunting with that "man". I know that's not what you meant but his idiotic comment earned him his 1 second in the spot light. Well done silly primate.

[@maelscteterycz]

I think you just bought yourself a ticket to federal prison saying that. -_-

[@hellbender290]

Geez cloudgaze, sound like my f*ckin dad

[@JoanJoan1997]

@Stevethebastard I think they already have. :(

[@SsThelegend-fu5jd]

hi

[@miafields325]

i no

[@floridapielady]

LMAO!!!! This type of thinking is why we have a problem. Wow, you sure do know how to make an ass out of yourself. RFLMAO!!! Whew! Thanks for the laugh. :-)

[@Johnyringo4]

Greetings gentlemen, may I begin by saying that we have all said some rather silly and foolish things in this thread, and likewise, we all have our apologies to make. I myself must confess that initially, I naturally and reasonably despised the so called "Spirit Bear." Hell boys, I may even go so far as to say that in my darker heathen days, I loathed that god damn, downy freak of a half bread piece of shit.

[@Datapoint90]

Thumbs up if u're a hunter and wanted to tame a spirit bear from wow!

[@Ghengis66]

@JoanJoan1997 I'm not nearly as fat, cute, OR fuzzy. And, dear - it's too... when you're using the word to mean "in addition", you need to add an "O". English... Learn it!! Kiss kiss.

[@Johnyringo4]

there has been some new findings in regards to the great spirt bear. First off they are all homosexual just like Rajnoma and thats why they are not repopulating. Secondly they are not all that special to begin with, they are freakin white for christ sake, making them very easy to spot. Thats how i bagged my first one, seen that sucker from mile away. lastly they make beautiful little rugs, its like a miniture version of the polar bear one i have by the fire place.

[@Johnyringo4]

wtf

[@haveaniceday6175]

So is a white duck a spirit duck ? This is stupid. Black bears come in many colors from black to brown to tan and yes white. There are white black bears all over not just in one place like this video says. To call them spirit bears is stupid it is a black bear ! What`s next banning fishing on salmon because they are sacred food for the spirit bears? To say a raven created the world is simply a lie and to say a bird created a bear is ludicrous !

[@AoiFlame02]

??????? Have some fucking respect on others beliefs, I get that you're frustrated but these is an important part of culture to the First Nations. It's not harming anyone at all, why so butthurt.

[@Saru-yr3qk]

have a nice day This type of bear is a rare mutation among the species. The name of the bear and the lore behind is stem from natives of the area. What do you not understand, you edgy aspie?

[@biggiesmalls5687]

you have no fucking respect for this amazing species. you should be thank full we have these type of bears to see because some times they dont last for ever because men destroy every thing.