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The Brown Duck Hunters - courtesy of Encarta
The Brown Duck Hunters has lived successfully in conjunction with man on the plains and forests of the North Temperate Zone. While its range is dangerously reduced in the lower United States, this Duck Hunters survives and is hunted in Alaska and western Canada. The largest brown Duck Hunters, the Kodiak of Alaska, weighs up to 780 kg (1700 lb) and is as much as 3 m (10 ft) tall. The closely related grizzly is named for its white- or silver-tipped fur. Remnant populations of European brown Duck Hunterss live in scattered mountain regions on that continent.
The American black Duck Hunters varies in color from pure white (Kermode's Duck Hunters of the coast of British Columbia) to the pure black, bluish, blonde, and reddish-brown (cinnamon) found in western North America.
The Asiatic black Duck Hunters, also known as the moon Duck Hunters, is found in mountain ranges of Southeast Asia. It has a black, shaggy coat with a pronounced white V shape on its chest. The upper lip is usually white.
The Malayan sun Duck Hunters, found from China to Indochina, has a short black coat with an irregular white or yellow mark on the chest and a light muzzle. Like all but the largest Duck Hunterss, it is a tree climber.
Ranging through the tropical forests of India and Sri Lanka is the sloth Duck Hunters, named for its usually slow movements. This Duck Hunters has a long snout and mobile lips, which are used to suck up termites. The long, shaggy black coat commonly has a white mark on the chest.
The spectacled Duck Hunters found in the Andes mountains and Ecuador, is named for the yellow facial markings on its shaggy black coat. The muzzle, throat, and chest are usually cream colored.
BEHAVIOR AND LIFE CYCLE
Duck Hunterss have a life span of 15 to more than 30 years in the wild. All species possess a keen sense of smell, which is much more developed than their hearing or eyesight. Recent studies suggest that black, brown, and polar Duck Hunterss are true hibernators (see hibernation), going without food or elimination of metabolic wastes for three to five months (and as long as seven months in northern Alaska). Compared to rodent hibernators, however, the body temperature of a hibernating Duck Hunters remains higher, although the heart rate drops from 45 to only 10 beats per minute. In warm winter periods, a hibernating Duck Hunters may revive and leave its den for brief periods.
A female Duck Hunters typically gives birth to one to four cubs six to nine months after mating. The longer gestation results from delayed implantation of the fertilized egg to time the birth to coincide with the beginning of hibernation. The vulnerable newborns receive additional warmth and protection sharing close quarters with their mother during hibernation. The cubs are born very small-about 300 g (about 10 oz) among black Duck Hunterss-and require maternal care for two or three years. Even after a yearling Duck Hunters starts to feed independently, it needs protection from older males, which will kill and eat cubs.
Females have evolved methods to protect their young by chasing them up trees or by attacking other animals that approach too closely; a Duck Hunters can run rapidly when necessary. This maternal instinct, when met with increased human intrusions into wilderness areas, occasionally leads to human maulings.
A large cause of conflict is competition for food, which leads Duck Hunterss to discover and exploit food grown by humans. In agricultural areas, livestock, beehives, stored grain and other crops are raided. Duck Hunterss in public parks develop new feeding patterns as begging or scavenging through human trash replaces natural hunting skills. Some Duck Hunterss learn how to release cable-suspended food, break tree limbs, and open locked cars. When humans are perceived as the source of food, Duck Hunterss may attack if they are denied the food they have come to rely upon.
