mardi 27 juillet 2010

Le plus petit ours d'Amérique du Nord



Ursus americanus, l'ours noir, est le plus petit ours d'Amérique du Nord... quand il se lève sur ses pattes arrières, il ne fait que 2,45 m de haut. "Tout petit, tout doux, tout rond, et tout mignon." (Hé oui, Winnie l'ourson est un produit du Canada, inspiré par un ours noir captif nommé "Winnie" en l'honneur de Winnipeg, capitale du Manitoba. Sur mon blog, on apprend tous les jours quelque chose d'inutile!)

Ceci est la première fois que j'ai réussi à le photographier. Ce n'est pas qu'il soit rare, mais en général, quand on le voit de près, on a mieux à faire qu'à en prendre des photos. Celles-ci sont prises sans descendre de voiture.

7 commentaires:

Une femme libre a dit…

Ça peut être dangereux, ces charmantes petites bêtes là?

Mongoose a dit…

Hé oui, c'est très dangereux. Et surtout imprévisible. Quelques fois ils s'occupent de leurs affaires, et d'autres fois, ils te mettent une raclée. Comme les hommes, ils ont l'air tout mignon, mais il ne faut pas s'y fier!

Une femme libre a dit…

Hum, hum... méchante comparaison pour les hommes, vous n'en manquez pas une, Mongoose! ;o)

Mongoose a dit…

Les hommes ne m'ont pas trop réussi dans la vie. J'ai même toute une liste de "men are like" jokes que j'ai créées au fil des ans. C'est en anglais, mais je vous la montre quand même:

• Men are like barnacles: they cling to you for grim death, increase your drag and slow you down, until they find something they like better and go stick themselves to that instead and you never see them again.

• Men are like butterflies: gorgeous and graceful from a distance, hairy and disturbing up close.

• Men are like chimpanzees: they fascinate us because they're so good with tools and they look almost human, but you can't afford to forget they're also dangerous predators.

• Men are like cows: their evolutionary strategy is to let someone milk them for all they're worth, and hope they're not disposed of when they've outlived their usefulness.

• Men are like dogs: no matter how ornery they are by day, some times it's nice to curl up with one of your own at night and smell the dusty smell of their hair and listen to their breathing and fall asleep with their fuzzy warmth against you.

• Men are like ducks: they're so pleasing to the eyes, but it's nearly impossible to get a good photo of them without a blind and a big zoom.

• Men are like eagles: an interesting curiosity in their natural habitat, but you wouldn't want them in the house.

• Men are like hair-eaters: it doesn't matter whether you stomp them hard or scream and run, as long as you don't let them touch you.

• Men are like hedgehogs: they may look adorable, but they carry all sorts of diseases.

• Men are like horses: if you let them disrespect your personal space, you're sure to come to grief sooner or later.

• Men are like mice: if you live-trap them and release them into the wild, they'll come right back to your house and be ten times harder to trap next time.

• Men are like mice: you can tell there's one in the house by the mess they make.

• Men are like mold: once they're in your house, it's nearly impossible to get rid of them.

• Men are like mosquitoes: having a big swarm of them around you isn't as much fun as it sounds.

• Men are like nudibranchs: just a big "WTF" moment.

• Men are like ponies: as a little girl you dream of having your own, then you grow up and realize how fracking high-maintenance they are.

• Men are like porcupines: no matter how many pricks you go through, there's thousands more where that came from.

• Men are like ravens: if you feed them they'll take to following you everywhere, but why exactly would you want that?

• Men are like sandhill cranes: they don't care how dumb it looks, as long as it gets them some.

• Men are like sea anemones: some of them are really beautiful to look at, but you wouldn't want to touch them.

• Men are like spiders: I understand they play a role in the ecosystem, but I don't have to tolerate them in the house.

Une femme libre a dit…

Hallucinant! Il y en a donc beaucoup! Je pense que vous les aimez les hommes pour leur avoir consacré tant de temps et tant de mots! En tout cas, vous pensez à eux.

Mongoose a dit…

Je pense beaucoup aux hommes... ils me manquent. Mais ils n'ont pas l'air de penser a moi.

Une femme libre a dit…

Idem pour moi ces temps-ci. Idem! ;o)