the bear
Dimitri Bourilkov
Dimitri.Bourilkov at CERN.CH
Sun Oct 15 09:45:36 UTC 2000
I have to disagree with Pavel. In Bulgaria you find bears today in several
big mountains (Balkan, Rila, Pirin, the Rhodopes).
Pavel Samsonov wrote:
>
> One of very simplistic explanations of the reference to Russia as "the
> country of bears" can be this:
> Russia (and USSR not so long ago) has been the ONLY European country (maybe
> with some exception of Finland, Norway and Sweden), where bears still exist
> in considerable numbers.
> Even in Belarus bears are not unusual. It was only 15 to 20 years ago that
> reports of bears attacking people in forests were quite common.
> Nothing of this kind can be encountered anywhere in Europe. I think bears
> became extinct in Europe quite a while ago. Bears require quite considerable
> areas of forest to survive. So the existence of bears in the forests of
> Russia could suggest to foreigners that Russia was/is a huge, forested, and
> consequently, not exactly "civilized" country.
>
> Pavel Samsonov
>
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