Straight up, it stands 180 cm (71 in) tall.įewer than 400 white-coloured bears were estimated to exist in the coast area that stretches from Southeast Alaska southwards to the northern tip of Vancouver Island about 120 inhabit the large Princess and Prince Royal Islands. Females are much smaller, with a maximum weight of 135 kg (298 lb). A male Kermode bear can reach 225 kg (496 lb) or more. It was adopted as such in April of that year. In the February 2006 Speech from the Throne, the Lieutenant Governor of British Columbia announced the government's intention to designate the Kermode, or spirit bear, as British Columbia's official animal. It is known in the Tsimshianic languages as moksgmʼol. kermodei subspecies ranges from Princess Royal Island to Prince Rupert, British Columbia, on the coast and inland toward Hazelton, British Columbia. Habitat Ī Kermode bear from the Great Bear Rainforest, British Columbia On some islands, white Kermode bears have more marine-derived nutrients in their fur, indicating that white Kermode bears eat more salmon than the black Kermode bears. The white fur of the bear is harder to spot under water by fish than black fur is, so the bear can catch fish more easily. Salmon evade large, black models about twice as frequently as they evade large white models, giving white bears an advantage in salmon hunting. During the day, white bears are 35% more successful than black bears in capturing salmon. Kermode bears are omnivorous for most of the year, subsisting mainly on herbage and berries except during autumn salmon migrations, when they become obligate predators. One hypothesis is that this happens because young bears imprint on their mother's fur colour. Additional genetic studies found that white Kermode bears breed more with white Kermode bears, and black Kermode bears breed more with black Kermode bears, in a phenomenon known as positive assortative mating. Two black bears can mate and produce a white cub if both of these black bears are heterozygous, carrying one copy of the mutant MC1R gene, and both mutant genes are inherited by the cub. This mutant gene is recessive, so Kermode bears with two copies of this mutant, nonfunctional gene appear white, while bears with one copy or no copies appear black. Rather, a single, nonsynonymous nucleotide substitution in the MC1R gene causes melanin to not be produced.
SPIRIT BEAR SKIN
White Kermode bears are not albinos, as they still have pigmented skin and eyes. Today, the name Kermode is pronounced as / k ər ˈ m oʊ d i/ kər- MOH-dee differing from the pronunciation of the Kermode surname, which originates on the Isle of Man ( / ˈ k ɜːr m oʊ d/ KUR-mohd). Museum, who researched the subspecies and was a colleague of William Hornaday, the zoologist who described it. The Kermode bear was named after Frank Kermode, former director of the Royal B.C. At the Spirit Bear Lodge, Klemtu, British Columbia
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