A black bear sitting on a branch attached a few feet in thee air between two trees in a forest. Large, bulky, carnivorous mammals with highly variable weights ranging in adults from 125 to over 600 pounds. Color varies from jet black through brown, bluish to white, depending upon geographic location. (Family: ursidae; binomial name: ursus americanus)

In Collection:

• Ian McTaggart Cowan Collection

Creator

• McTaggart-Cowan, Ian, 1910-2010

Subject

• Black bear--Behavior
• Black bear
• Forest animals
• Black bear--Ecology
• Forest ecology
• Black bear--Habitat
• Mammals
• Trees
• Bears

Language

• eng

Identifier

• COWAN_PH_011; Cowan_PN_553; Cowan B & W Photographs - Species and Locations - Box 2

Date created

• June 27, 1943

Resource type

• Still Image

Rights statement

• In Copyright - Educational Use Permitted

Extent

• 1 photograph : black and white ; 12 x 16.5 cm

Alternative title

• American black bear

Geographic Coverage

• British Columbia--Vermillion Crossing

Coordinates

• 51.0333, -115.98543

Physical Repository

• University of Victoria (B.C.). Library

Collection

• Ian McTaggart Cowan Collection

Provider

• University of Victoria (B.C.). Library

Sponsor

• Digitization undertaken with the support of Ann Schau.

Genre

• black-and-white photographs
• photographs

Fonds title

• Ian McTaggart Cowan Collection

Fonds identifier

• AR514

Date digitized

• 2012

Technical note

• Digitized by Briony Penn. Migration metadata by KD.

Rights

• Contact UVic Special Collections and University Archives for access to the original resource and for reproduction requests. This material is made available on this site for research and private study only.

DOI

•  https://doi.org/10.58066/qm7f-tx91

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