Science Fair Project Encyclopedia
List of historical bears
This is a list of actual bears that have been documented in history.
- Hotfoot who became the original incarnation of the 1944 Smokey Bear advertising poster created by the Advertising Council's Rudolph Wendelin, and was discovered in the 1950 Capitan Gap forest fire.
- an old un-named bear, injured and tied up in Mississippi as part of a canned hunt for President Theodore Roosevelt. Teddy Roosevelt refused to shoot the bear, and this event was popularized by cartoonist Clifford Berryman , resulting in the creation of the 'Teddy' Bear.
- Binky, a polar bear in an Alaskan zoo who in two separate incidents attacked tourists who climbed into his cage.
See also
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