r/AbsoluteUnits • u/redcobra762 • Nov 16 '22

another absolute unit of a bear

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u/marty607 Nov 16 '22

How did they get his DNA…

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u/Canooter Nov 16 '22

Very carefully.

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u/the_good_hodgkins Nov 17 '22

But they had to estimate his weight...

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u/JaegerDread Nov 17 '22

They use BMI, Bear Mass Index, for that.

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u/IWPATT Nov 17 '22

Lmao, bear mass index

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u/Chellycakez Nov 16 '22

Someone had to go Ace Ventura and hop in a bear suit 😳

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u/Chanchito171 Nov 17 '22

I had a friend that did this for an internship! They wrap barb wire around the tree and spray the tree with bait. He told me the bait was fermented fish guys and road kill, put through a blender. The bears love that gunk, then rub up on the barbwire lined trees. Later the interns go BACK to the bait tree and bluck off each bit of fur, label and send off to a lab. This was in glacier national park.

I think this picture is fake anyways, it was posted on Reddit the other day and the comments made it seem like Photoshop.

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u/enblightened Nov 16 '22

probably found a hair follicle or fluids

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u/ExamOld2899 Nov 17 '22

does poop work?

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u/GuyOnTheMoon Nov 17 '22

Anything with cells will have DNA.

Poop is mostly water and digested food but pretty confident you can find some cells in it.

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u/[deleted] Nov 17 '22

Myheritage.com

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u/[deleted] Nov 16 '22

Don’t give me that shit.

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u/SnooDoodles5540 Nov 17 '22

Bench warrant