Obligatory disclaimer: real life sucks, and I cannot even
escape into AoS, because I am currently trapped where it is not available,
(because there is no TV and all). Pause.
Well, because I do not want to tackle reality just yet, I
will acknowledge that for the moment the final season of AoS is still staying
in the AC time period – aka the post-WWII USA and they have already encountered
their very first racist – a certain Mr. Sharpe. Right now, the character is
mostly a comic relief, (this is the first time he has appeared in MCU period,
and given AoS’ record of accomplishment, and it is possible that he will soon
die anyhow… where were we?)
Ah yes, the racist. AC itself fiddled with the issue of
racism in the USA post-WWII, especially in the second season, when agent – now chief
– David Sousa suddenly had a non-captain Rogers’ rival for agent Carter’s heart
of an Afro-American descent, cough – but now…
Well, now it seems that the final season of AoS is stealing
plot ideas from the third season of AC that never was, which is good. Marvel’s ‘InHumans’
actually did manifest despite AoS’
present, and the result was insipid, and also cancelled after a single season,
even though despite its’ flaws, it had a better, more compact plot than AoS
usually had. Disney rocks?
Getting back to the issue of racism in the States, in
particular – now, listen: the George Floyd situation manifested because of
management and mismanagement of the protests, the Americans wanted a diversion from
COVID-19, and so they got it! Now, people are talking about reforming the
police, (a major federal organization, putting it mildly), Confederate statues
are being pulled down, (seriously, what the Hell?!), and COVID-19 was put on a
backburner, though now it is coming back – either because the George Floyd
narrative has ran its’ course, the man has been buried, and, hopefully, at
least some people on the top of the American society have begun to think as to
what COVID-19 will do to American population now that the self-isolation was
effectively torn down.
…As we have said before, in Canada the situation is
different, less intense, and more artificial-feeling. It is possible that Trudeau
is using it as a smoke screen… period, because he isn’t handling the COVID-19
chaos very well, but then again, right now, Canada is supposedly run by a
Liberal/Conservative/NDP joint effort, and where are the other two? Scheer
keeps on fighting with Trudeau, the end, and Singh, (for whom and whose NDP
party I have voted, FYI), is simply a no-show. The Hell? Trudeau is flawed,
(though he is better than the American Donald is by default), but at least he
is trying to do something, which is more than you can say about the other two.
Sigh. Canada may be better than the U.S. is, but these days? That is not much
to go on about.
Now, today I actually wanted to talk about bears, but
somehow I was never able to get into the right frame of mind. Pity, because
actually bears are quite fascinating mammals, hailing from the Eocene epoch,
aka practically the very beginning of the Cenozoic. Their various species and
genera came and went, but in the modern times? There are only eight species in three
genera, including the giant panda that we have discussed earlier. It is the
most ancient of the modern bears, and one of the most specialized, and probably
one of the smallest ones too, (I am sorry, but compared to a brown bear? The
giant panda is not that huge).
At the other end of the spectrum we have the polar bear, the
most recent of the modern bears, that we have already discussed on this blog,
for it was featured on AFO, where it’d lost to a walrus, as well as its’
closest cousins – the brown bear, (defeated a Siberian tiger), and the American
black bear, (who took down the American Alligator). This leaves with the
spectacled bear, the sloth bear, and the sun and the moon bears.
The moon bear is the Asian black bear, which is an
ecological counterpart to the American black bear, and whom we have discussed
in the past, largely because of the conjunction to the American black bear,
(the American alligator and the Chinese alligator were featured as well).
The sun bear is also called the Malaysian bear, and it is
one of the smallest bears, possibly smaller than even the giant panda is – and is
one of the most arboreal of all the modern bears. Unlike the moon bear, its’
patch on the chest is yellow rather than white, hence the ‘sun bear’ moniker.
…Conversely, the sloth bear, (aka the true bear from the ‘Jungle
Book’) usually has no patch on its’ chest, but when it does, it is white. The
same goes for the American black bear, actually – usually, this bear is colored
in a single color, but sometimes it does have a white patch on its’ chest
instead, (though it ought to be noted that an American black bear can be of any
color actually, not just black, but also cinnamon brown or creamy white).
…The spectacled bear usually doesn’t have a mark on its’
chest – instead, it has ‘spectacles’ on its’ face, and it is the only modern
survivor of the short-faced bear lineage, (remember, it was featured on the ‘Prehistoric
Predators’ series?). That said, those ‘spectacles’ can look very different from
one spectacled bear to another, and some can reach the chest area, I suppose.
In fact, physically speaking, all bears look like each other, and aside from
the brown and polar bears, (which are each other’s closest relatives out of all
the modern bears), and the giant panda too, I suppose, all of the modern bears
are colored similarly too – in black, with lighter patches of fur on its’ back.
Even the giant panda’s black-and-white checkered coat might have evolved from a
similar design as well; what do you think?
…For now though, this is it. See you all soon!
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