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Tag: Grizzly Bears
“John West Red Salmon” Commercial
This is just plain funny!
To increase their UK market share, in November 2000 John West canned salmon started a marketing campaign revolving around this viral video in which a bear fights a fisherman for a fresh salmon. The video soon became a huge Internet hit, and by 2006 it was reported to be viewed over 300 million times, making it the sixth most viewed video online.
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As the UK’s favourite name in canned fish, we’ve made plenty of memorable and amusing TV commercials here at John West. One in particular from 14 years ago was actually voted the funniest of all time by both the advertising industry itself and members of the public (Source: Campaign Live). It features a fight over the best, fresh Salmon between a bear and a John West fisherman and it’s a laugh out loud fishy story from start to finish.
See a wild bear get wilder
Filmed in 2000 on the banks of the River Dee in the Scottish highlands, the ad begins as a mock David Attenborough style nature documentary. We see a tranquil scene of wild bears by a river, over which a typically hushed and reverent voice informs us ‘At the river mouth, the bears catch only the tastiest, most tender Salmon’. Then it all goes bear shaped, as a John West fisherman suddenly races into view and tries to grab a freshly caught Salmon from one of the wild bears. Obviously and hilariously, this makes the bear wilder than ever resulting in an all-out scrap with no holds barred.Kicked in the growlers
At first, the surprisingly agile bear gets the best of the fisherman with a few nifty Jackie Chan style martial arts kicks, but then the man from John West distracts him by pointing upwards and shouting ‘Oh look, an Eagle’. And as the poor old bear looks skywards, the fisherman kicks him right where it hurts the most and it’s fight over. Unsurprisingly, this grizzly move leaves the bear growling in pain, as the triumphant fisherman walks off with the prized Salmon and we hear the immortal line ‘John West endure the worst to bring you the best’. All very silly and tongue in cheek, but all the funnier for it.Enjoyed by millions – just like our Salmon
From the moment it was first shown the commercial was hugely successful and immediately won a number of ‘Best commercial of the Year’ awards. Since then, word of mouth has spread and so has the popularity of the ad, big style. By 2006 it had been viewed over 300 million times on the Internet, making it at the time the sixth most viewed video online. And there’s been no stopping it. The John West ‘bear vs. man’ ad is still being enjoyed by millions of people worldwide. As is John West canned Salmon itself. Which we must add, is well worth fighting for.
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Grizzly Bear Surprises Film Crew
On an advertising shoot for washing machines in Canada to show off the cold wash performance, the Samsung film crew is surprised when a bear wanders on to the shoot location.
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“Huge Bear Surprises Crew on EcoBubble Photo Shoot in BC”
This commercial for the Samsung EcoBubble Washing Machine makes you think it is a behind-the-scenes shoot, showing you how the actual ad was made, which was interrupted by a grizzly bear showing up on the set. It begins with the crew setting up the EcoBubble washer which can supposedly wash clothes just was well in cold water as warm water through its new technology. They aim to prove this by setting up the machine to pull water directly from a frozen lake, but when the bear shows up, everything has to stop. Everyone moves back and the bear stands up and takes off it’s “fur coat” exposing his skinny legs and boxer shorts. He puts his coat in the washer and waits. As he does, he reads a newspaper, juggles fish, plays the guitar and “sings”, takes pictures of himself with the crew’s cameras, builds a snowman (snowbear?), and even break dances. When his coat is clean, he pulls it out and it’s all white. That’s when we learn he was a polar bear all along. At the end, we see that he has told his bear friends and they stop by to wash their fur too.
Hybrid Bears
Hybrid Bears
What happens when you cross a polar bear with a grizzly bear?
Evidence of New Hybrid Bears
A look into horrific reports of bear attacks, from Alaska to New Jersey, focusing on witness accounts and physical remains that may be evidence of new hybrid bears of prehistoric size.
A grizzly–polar bear hybrid (also pizzly bear, grizlar, prizzly bear, or grolar bear) is a rare ursid hybrid that has occurred both in captivity and in the wild. In 2006, the occurrence of this hybrid in nature was confirmed by testing the DNA of a strange-looking bear that had been shot near Sachs Harbour, Northwest Territories on Banks Island in the Canadian Arctic.
Possible wild-bred polar bear-grizzly bear hybrids have been reported and shot in the past, but DNA tests were not available to verify the bears’ ancestry.
With many confirmed sightings and three confirmed cases,[4] theories of how such hybrids might naturally occur have become more than hypothetical. Although these two species are genetically similar and often found in the same territories, they tend to avoid each other in the wild. They also fill different ecological niches.
Grizzlies (and also Kodiak bears and “Alaskan brown bears”, which are all subspecies of the brown bear, Ursus arctos), tend to live and breed on land. Polar bears prefer the water and ice, usually breeding on the ice.
The yellowish-white MacFarlane’s bear, a mysterious animal known only from one specimen acquired in 1864, seems to attest that grizzly-polar bear hybrids may have always occurred from time to time. Another theory suggests that the polar bears have been driven southward by the melting of the ice cap, bringing them into closer contact with grizzly bears.
2006 discoveryJim Martell, a hunter from Idaho, found and shot a grizzly–polar bear hybrid near Sachs Harbour on Banks Island, Northwest Territories, Canada, reportedly on 16 April 2006. Martell had been hunting for polar bears with an official license and a guide, at a cost of $45,450, and killed the animal believing it to be a normal polar bear. Officials took interest in the creature after noticing it had thick, creamy white fur, typical of polar bears, as well as long claws; a humped back; a shallow face; and brown patches around its eyes, nose, and back, and having patches on one foot, which are all traits of grizzly bears. If the bear had been adjudicated to be a grizzly, the hunter would have faced a possible CAN$1,000 fine and up to a year in jail.
A DNA test conducted by the Wildlife Genetics International in British Columbia confirmed it was a hybrid, with a polar bear mother and a grizzly bear father. It is the first documented case in the wild, though it was known that this hybrid was biologically possible and other ursid hybrids have been bred in zoos in the past.
Amidst much controversy, the bear has since been returned to Martell
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