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[pct-l] Bear Proof Suit
It sounds like 'The Man Show' stuff, but I saw this
grizzly-suit guy on a TV documentary. He's serious, it's like his
whole life purpose. He's been at it for years. He tests the various
versions (that's him in the 'Ursus Mark 6' in the photo) by having
his buddy drive into him with his pickup truck, like, at speed, or
bash him in the head with a bat. He set up a pendulum arrangement on
a tree, and he had his buddy hoist up heavy stuff like logs and
cinder blocks that he would release from a height, and it would swing
down and slam into his head at 55mph. In the showw he went to the
dump and smeared honey all over it, then layed down on the garbage
pile. When a black bear came up and got close, he jumped to grab it,
but it scared the crap out of the bear. It ran away.
They don't answer the WHY though (besides the fact that it
makes for great TV).....apparently there is great curiosity about how
it is that grizzlies hibernate, what it is that regulates their
organs, heartrate, metabolism, body temperature and all.... since the
info might be of use for anesthesia......I don't know, but he wants
to crawl in a grizzly den and be the first to take a blood sample
from a hibernating bear. I think he was supposed to be on a winch
that his buddies would use to retrieve him. Seems like if that was
something we really needed, though, it could have been done far
easier on a captive hibernating bear long ago.
Kevin "I Want My Cable TV" Corcoran
>In case you all haven't seen this yet:
>
>http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99991668
>http://www.nfb.ca/grizzly/suit.html