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Minoru Saba (minorusaba@toad.social)'s status on Sunday, 01-Dec-2024 12:43:40 JST Minoru Saba

"The man was attacked while working near the delicatessen section at around 6:20 a.m."
https://mainichi.jp/english/articles/20241130/p2g/00m/0na/027000c
Seems Japanese black bears (ツキノワグマ, tsukinowaguma) are supposed to "sleep from November until March",
but only in "colder, northern ranges, though some bears will simply move to" warmer climes (e.g. supermarkets)😬
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asian_black_bear
#Japan #BearAttack #ClimateChange
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  Man attacked by bear at supermarket in northeast Japan - The Mainichi
  
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  AKITA (Kyodo) -- A bear entered a supermarket and attacked a male employee on Saturday morning in Akita Prefecture, northeastern Japan, police said.
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  Asian black bear
  
  The Asian black bear (Ursus thibetanus), also known as the Indian black bear, Asiatic black bear, moon bear and white-chested bear, is a medium-sized bear species native to Asia that is largely adapted to an arboreal lifestyle. It lives in the Himalayas, southeastern Iran, the northern parts of the Indian subcontinent, Mainland Southeast Asia, the Korean Peninsula, China, the Russian Far East, the islands of Honshū and Shikoku in Japan, and Taiwan. It is listed as vulnerable on the IUCN Red List, and is threatened by deforestation and poaching for its body parts, which are used in traditional medicine. Taxonomy Ancestral and sister taxa Biologically and morphologically, Asian black bears represent the beginning of the arboreal specializations attained by sloth bears and sun bears. Asian black bears have karyotypes nearly identical to those of the five other ursine bears, and, as is typical in the genus, they have 74 chromosomes. From an evolutionary perspective, Asian black bears are the least changed of...

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