A review by saint_eleanor
Eight Bears: Mythic Past and Imperiled Future by Gloria Dickie

dark emotional informative sad slow-paced

3.5

This book was so incredibly informative I did not realize how much bear information I had been missing! It was quite devastating particularly the chapter about the Vietnamese practice of harvesting moon/sun bear bile for medicine and aphrodisiac, which I had no idea about. As well as the ignorant practices of yellowstone campers, torturing bears into dancing bears in India, and the misconceptions about spectacled bears in Latin America. I also learned that polar bears are the only bears who can smell period blood which confirms that they are the scariest bear lmao. I wanted to know a little bit more about the author while she was writing it but otherwise this was awesome. 
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