Take The Bear IQ Test...

What's Your Bear IQ?
Quiz by Keith McCafferty. Uploaded on September 30, 2008




There are many signs of spring. One of them is bear tracks. Would you know what to do if you met one still grumpy from his winter nap? Find out below...


No North American animal has inspired such widespread reverence in the pantheon of mythology as the bear. Native Americans regarded bears as spirits and carved them on totem poles. Astronomers found them roaming the sky. Some cultures believed that bear parts were big medicine, with gall bladders curing every malady from hemorrhoids to impotence.

Sportsmen ought to know more about bears than any groups besides indigenous people and biologists. But how well do you understand these predators that share the landscape with you? This quiz will teach you respect for bears, when to avoid them, and in what circumstances they are most dangerous.

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Let me know your results!

-Michael

Test Your Tracking Skills

Test Your Tracking Skills

The more you know about reading an animal's trail, the better a hunter you will be. Take a walk in the woods with Keith McCafferty to test your tracking skills.
Quiz by Keith McCafferty. Uploaded on September 30, 2008

Tracking is a language skill. It begins with a word, an imprint in snow or soil. Follow that track for any distance and you have completed a sentence -- an animal has traveled from here to there. Proceed farther, to where it has eaten or lain in bed, and a paragraph of life is revealed. The narrative will be interrupted as other animals cross its trail, it will speed up or slow down as the animal changes its gait, and because this is nature, it can end with a spot of blood on any page.

The more chapters of an animal's life you can read, the better you will understand the book of nature, and, not incidentally, the better hunter you will become, for in a forest all trails are connected. Take this walk with me to test you your own tracking IQ. It begins simply by opening your back door and walking to the edge of the wood.

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Let Me Know How You Do!

-Michael