[advocacy-discuss] Logo/Mascot Continued...

[Michael Hunter]

On Mon, 09 Jul 2007 14:24:50 +1200
Rob Giltrap <thermo at kiwihq.com> wrote:

> Ron Kleinman wrote:
> > Now if you are suggesting something different like a black bear 
> > foraging for food in a dumpster, or an unhappy brown bear in a muzzle, 
> > riding a unicycle in the circus, I suppose these are pretty safe, 
> > copyright wise.  Of course, why would anyone want a logo like *that*?
> 
> Brown bears foraging in dumpsters and riding unicycles may well not be
> safe (then again maybe I'm just showing my age)
> 
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yogi_bear

I would actually guess that Yogi is more of a black bear (ursus
americanus) then a brown bear (ursus actos) due to the lack of hump.
OTOH he lacks obvious hooked claws and has smaller ears.  Black bears
come in a suprising range of colors so that isn't a strong indicator.
I've seen ones ranging from almost blond to black with cinnamon brown
being the most common in the wild.

But more seriously I think Wolverine's (Gulo gulo) having a fearsome
reputation as being one of the toughest animals in the forests could
well be used to represent a lean mean bad-ass operating system.  A
story from the Sierra Nevada gold country in the late 1800s tells about
a pony express rider/well known rancher/or the like running across one
of these creatures chaseing two bears (probably ursus actos) off a kill.

			mph