Pink Bear Poop

By Alex in Animals & Pets, Pictures on Sep 30, 2009 at 4:53 pm


Photo: Bettyboop4 [Flickr]

National Geographic Traveler’s Intelligent Travel (and now Neatorama) blogger Marilyn Terrell just came back from a trip to the Yukon Territory in Canada. Naturally, she’s got lots of stories about her adventure, the fascinating ecology of the Yukon and so on and so forth.

But since I’m stuck here in the ‘burbs, my jealous brain wouldn’t allow me to properly process all her stories save this tiny but golden nugget of trivia that will forever be with me till the day I die: Bear poop can be pink.


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  1. Neil
    Sep 30th, 2009 at 5:21 pm

    Is this a result of salmon in salmon out?

  2. Johnny Cat
    Sep 30th, 2009 at 5:39 pm

    I was thinking salmon, too.

  3. Rye
    Sep 30th, 2009 at 5:57 pm

    I am from the Yukon! And yes, bear poop can be pink! Looks like mushy spam… haha

  4. Staxeon
    Sep 30th, 2009 at 6:41 pm

    Whaddya know, they don’t go in the woods.

    They apparently prefer the beach.

  5. A
    Sep 30th, 2009 at 6:48 pm

    Salmon or berries.

  6. FishBottleT
    Sep 30th, 2009 at 7:07 pm

    Salmon is my bet.

  7. Alex
    Sep 30th, 2009 at 7:18 pm

    Well, how come my poop didn’t come out pink after eating a lot of salmon? ;)

  8. Seanette
    Sep 30th, 2009 at 8:26 pm

    My immediate thought was “what in the world is that poor bear EATING, and is he/she sick or something?”

  9. Lnothing7
    Sep 30th, 2009 at 8:44 pm

    “ah bullshit!”

    “you mean bearshit?”

  10. mu
    Sep 30th, 2009 at 9:28 pm

    Berries, at least around here in southern BC, make for black bear poop.

  11. Miss Cellania
    Sep 30th, 2009 at 10:15 pm

    Have you ever fed a baby sugar beets? It’s darned funny when someone else changes the diaper!

  12. Marilyn Terrell
    Sep 30th, 2009 at 10:18 pm

    I took the photo and there were loads of delicious red highbush cranberries along the Yukon River here, as well as rosehips.

  13. Wes
    Oct 1st, 2009 at 12:35 am

    I always wondered where they got potted meat.

  14. Robert
    Oct 1st, 2009 at 1:10 am

    It looks just like the panda poop at the National Zoo in DC

  15. Tim Giachetti
    Oct 1st, 2009 at 10:20 am

    “Soylent Poooo is People!!! Peeeeeople!!!!”

  16. andiscandis
    Oct 1st, 2009 at 2:27 pm

    You know what? I was eating. Thanks.

  17. Rajnoma
    Sep 23rd, 2010 at 9:13 pm

    Bears are such wondrous creatures! Yes, that bear must have been dining on ripe, juicy berries; the red die in the berries tinted his/her “poop”! Bears can poop green, blue, purple, yellow and pink, depending on the color of the flowers, berries or grass they eat. It’s true: Bears DO “poop” rainbows!! I love all bears! Bears and their “poopie” rule!


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