The bear with horns :(
November 20th, 2008 by mat
So the journey is over, I have had a look through other images that I took of the ‘bear’ last weekend on the Kaunertal Glacier and I have found an additional one that seems to suggest that my bear may have horns. Whilst I have a limited knowledge of the Brown Bear (Ursus arctos), I would accept that the existence of horns would reduce the likelihood that what I actually saw was a bear. The only scenario that might back-up my discovery / sighting of a bear is that there were 2 natives of the mountains that day and that the chamois (possibly pictured below) was in pursuit of the bear who had already merged into the rock. It is fair to say that neither picture resembles ‘Nessie’ or a ‘dead crow’ 
So apparently we can add a reindeer to the list of improbable sightings which include the Loch Ness monster and a crow (dead) the size of a car.
Wot No Bear! Cathy and I had a similar sighting of two reindeer on Saturday, at Bluewater!! To help get the shoppers in the Christmas spirit. At least we know David Attenborough has nothing to fear. Don’t give up the day job Mat!
Hey Terri, as far as I know it was a Pinnegar that suggested the ‘bear’ was crow???? Over here our crows (the remainder of the population that have evaded farmer air warfare) measure about 30cm beak to tail. Cathys’ crow would have needed to be the size of a pisten bully. What are you London gilrs drinking for lunch these days???? And as for Nessie…..?
A grizzly or kodiak bear that has remained hidden in the unterland since the last ice age may be hungry and tenacious enough to swallow the majority of a medium sized mountain goat minus the horns making tis just possibly an animal world 1st. Attenborough eat you heart out. If verified it may lead to claims for the rightful return of Alaska to the people of Austria.
Hey Ben, thanks for the input, all I have heard recently is Nessie and Santa nonsense, finally I have a credible explanation of the Bear / Goat hybrid that I discovered roaming above the Kaunertal Glacier. Expect a ‘Nessie is DNA linked to the bear-oat’ angle from some of the London skeptics
Matt, May I suggest getting a camera with a better zoom for your next ‘bear’ sighting or would that maybe ruin your story. Think it is probably some poor bloke on his stag night been left out in the middle of nowhere drunk and disorientated, with nothing but a fur rug and a silly stag hat on. Still I am sure that if he is was still alive he would be chuckling to himself that, as opposed to helping him, you just took pictures and tried to pass them off as a bear sighting.
Thanks Cathy, I shall add a better zoom to the wish list. I should be back at the Kaunertal Glacier in the next few weeks. If I see a blow up doll and a frozen reveler then it was indeed a stag party gone astray. DI Cathy?