So true. So bears, aye? How big/ tall are we talking exactly? Cassowaries and emus personally freak me out, and many tourist coming to Australi don't understand how large and how aggressive Kangaroos are. Quite the scary.

The one we have kicking round is only about three years old (thats our - my neighbours and my family's best guess) so it'll be around the size of a bull mastiff only bulkier.
I'm someone with a healthy respect for all animals, I mean no one really expects to have their cheek bitten clean through by their pet guinea pig (true story!) so yeah respect for animals who can hurt me. ;-)

bull mastiff ?

A huge type of dog umm kind of shetland pony sized (the closest comparison I can think of.) But thats just a black bear. Brown bears from what I remember are usually around the size of black bears or a bit bigger. And grizzlies (gorgeous at a distance, scary at all other times) well the only bear bigger than them are polar bears, grizzlies have claws the size of a person's head!
Out of all of them though polar bears freak me out the most. They wil literally stalk you with the intention of killing you. Other bears don't go out of their way to stalk humans on a regular basis...

Ooooooh I can practically feel all of the knowledge I just absorbed. Never really had much to do with bears..ever. Some might argue that Koloas are bears, but really they're not. They are marsupials, just like possums and platapuses :)

Yeah. Polar bears are cute on tv and at Sea World but that's about it. I have no inclination to have a 'Meet and Eat'. Hah.

Actualy they're a little catch phrase on some biscuits/cookies over here that are in the shape of teddies, ' We meet them and than we eat them.' The bears that is. They're called Tiny Teds, and have a whole bunch of different ones inside each packet. (I feel like an advertisement) There's grumpy, sleepy, happy, cheeky, hungry...thinking about it's kind of like the seven dwarfves- but not. :\

I am a fount of knowledge! Although living in Canada, specifically in the North means that you learn how to deal with bears or risk doing something idiotic when you run into them. Honestly though even knowing stuff can lead to idiotic things anyway. Koala's look cute and cuddly but there is no way I'd want to go near one, although I will trade you grizzlies for platapi!

'Meet and Eat.' That is awesome in word form right there. Now everyone in my uni library thinks I'm insane and/or is pissed off that my laughing interupted their study time!

We don't have 'Tiny Teds,' and I want some now which seriously sucks. We do have teddy grams but they're all smiley - like they're on prozac- and pulling Marilyn Monroe-esque poses. Ours aren't variety in each pack either, they're all the same (but come in three flavours or something like that) and kind of taste like chalk.

Advertisements only count if you can buy the thing being advertised, so unless I order some off ebay you're home free!