{"id":21535,"date":"2017-08-07T07:20:43","date_gmt":"2017-08-07T14:20:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=21535"},"modified":"2017-08-07T15:51:21","modified_gmt":"2017-08-07T22:51:21","slug":"bears-blaze","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=21535","title":{"rendered":"Bear’s blaze"},"content":{"rendered":"

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A visiting Black Bear bears a blaze (a white V) on its chest. Fans of redundancy are wont to call this feature a white<\/i> blaze.<\/p>\n

Some websites that discuss the blaze claim that it is a common characteristic of Black Bears; others say that it is rare. Possibly the occurrence of a blaze varies from one region to another; possibly some websites are just poorly researched and edited (imagine that!).<\/p>\n

What I can say is that around here, a blaze is rare. Indeed, the last time I photographed a bear’s blaze was a decade ago.\u00a0<\/p>\n

It is a rare bear that bears a blaze.
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