Norton said the trail camera photos show the Michigan “spirit bear” has coloration to its nose and skin, so it cannot be an albino or piebald animal. The white fur with a blonde or cinnamon ...

The white bear is known to the Kita­soo as the Moksgm ... drinks us in and sniffs us out with her ash-colored nose, the way elephants do with their trunks. A bear’s sense of smell is ten ...

The “dawn bear” may have been one of the earliest ... that another species of fungus found in Europe and Asia causes white-nose disease, which has ravaged bat populations in the United States ...