Kiss Me

Title

Kiss Me

Artist

Joy McAdams

Medium

Photograph - Photograph

Description

An American Black bear, sticks his incredibly long tongue out and does his best impression of Gene Simmons, member of the KISS rock band.

As the photographer, it was one of the most amazing and unexpected moments I have yet to witness in the wild. Despite personal research, the reasons behind this for this tongue behaviour are still unclear to me, but it did seem very non-threatening and almost casual in nature. One theory I have found is that the action is used to clean the tongue, while yet another is that it is yet another tool to help "sniff" the air for odors and to help identify them. Whatever the cause, it was a most thrilling, breath-taking "capture"- that tongue just kept coming and coming!

The American black bear (Ursus americanus) is a medium-sized bear native to North America.

It is the continent's smallest and most widely distributed bear species. Black bears are omnivores, with their diets varying greatly depending on season and location. They typically live in largely forested areas, but do leave forests in search of food. Sometimes they become attracted to human communities because of the immediate availability of food. The American black bear is the world's most common bear species.

It is listed by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) as a least-concern species, due to its widespread distribution and a large global population estimated to be twice that of all other bear species combined. Along with the brown bear, it is one of only two of the eight modern bear species not considered globally threatened with extinction by the IUCN. American black bears often mark trees using their teeth and claws as a form of communication with other bears, a behavior common to many species of bears.

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December 22nd, 2017

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