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Bear Gallstone Bile...  
   

Bear Gallstone Bile...

Well, the importance of the story here is that while it may be true that bile from bear gallbladders may be beneficial in modern and Chinese medicine: this exhibit lacks stressing that this same material is now made synthetically (man-made, without the need to harvest the bile from bears, which is no doubt painful for the bears and unnecessary). If one is interested, please do an internet search about what is happening with the Sun Bears in Asia to give an undeniable view into the suffering these animals are enduring for the sake of having their bile harvested.
Visiting Yellowstone National Park and the Grizzly & Wolf Discovery Center. The things we often don't know about what is going on with the bears, worldwide (including poaching): and what is going on with the gray wolves in North America.

July 6th 2008
6/5/08: Our journey included a visit to West Yellowstone, and fortunately a visit to the Grizzly and Wolf Discovery Center in the town of West Yellowstone. The scenery I include here is also from the long drive it took to get here, including scenes from the Badlands in North Dakota, and the splendid Alpine views of Wyoming. I had mixed feelings about the Grizzly and Wolf Discovery Center: it was g ... read more
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