The scientific name for the Eurasian brown bear is Ursus arctos arctos, which literally translates as bear bear bear. That's like, so much bear.
as bear as a bear can be
It's unbearable!
I kinda love all the replies to this, but now I've seen the word "bear" so much in such a short space of time that it no longer looks like a real word
@InvaderXan the sheer quantity of bear in this!
@InvaderXan *slaps roof of the Eurasian Brown Bear* this bad boy can fit so much bear in it
@InvaderXan a bear's a bear's a bear
@InvaderXan where's that goddamn airhorn emoji
@InvaderXan The arctic circle is the BEAR CIRCLE
The antarctic circle is the ANTI-BEAR CIRCLE
One of these circles is preferable
@meena @InvaderXan THE BEAR CIRCLE, of course!! There are BEARS there!!!
@witchfynder_finder @InvaderXan have you ever seen a polar bear close up??
i think i'd prefer to freeze with penguins than being mauled by a polar bear
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n.b.: for reasons u cannot quite fathom, i think that i could take a grizzly bear in hand to paw combat, but i draw the line at polar bears
@meena @witchfynder_finder @InvaderXan have you seen grolar bears tho?
@Sapphicgiraffic @meena @InvaderXan God I love grolar bears
@meena @witchfynder_finder However, a polar bear is ursus maritimus, so it only contains one bear. Which means that a Eurasian brown bear is literally THREE TIMES THE BEAR!
@anaerant @witchfynder_finder @meena It's like they took a 4 year old's name for it and just translated it into Latin!
@InvaderXan @anaerant @witchfynder_finder that seems to be the case with many animals
(also, physics concepts… except, they aren't even translated!)
@meena @anaerant @witchfynder_finder You say that, but physics also brings us cool things like the great oxygenation event and the ultraviolet catastrophe!
Both of which sound like names I might give to a music festival.
@InvaderXan @meena @anaerant Ultraviolet Catastrophe is my black metal band name
@witchfynder_finder @meena @anaerant An excellent choice, honestly
@witchfynder_finder @meena @InvaderXan but antartica has penguins!!
@InvaderXan the beatles song "Girl" immediately came to mind. just swap in bear for girl...
@InvaderXan Likewise, the Arctic is Place With Bears and the Antarctic is Place With Not Bears.
@noelle This always amuses me too. Kinda wish I lived in like, Alaska or Sweden so I could say I HAIL FROM THE LAND OF BEARS