While trying to escape from the bear, Amos fearfully starts walking backward, but has gotten his foot caught in one of his own steel traps while his gun has landed on the tree, slightly out of his reach. The enormous bear, now furious, lunges forward and swipes at Amos, causing the alarmed hunter to drop his gun, then tumbles down a hillside, losing his hat in the process and reach the bottom of the slope, as the bear continues to pursue him. Amos, with a look of fear on his face, and with shaky hands, panics by raising his gun, and fires to shoot the bear, but only grazes the bear’s shoulder, provoking him further. The bear first appears after being accidentally awakened by Amos and Copper, who are looking for Tod and Vixey, only to stumble upon the territory of the wrathful animal, who awakens and looms over them as a warning that Amos and Copper are in his territory and that they should leave immediately. When encountering Amos Slade, he merely tried to scare him away and did not attack him until after being shot by Amos. However, he is not necessarily evil as he is a simple creature defending his territory. He does not tolerate trespassers, and if they cross into his territory or attack him in any way, he will not hesitate to kill them. The bear is portrayed as an ordinary bear albeit slightly more territorial. He is likely a melanistic grizzly or Kodiak bear. ¡Bueno sería que viniesen los negociantes a buscarle fatigados y él estuviese en el monte holgándose! ¡Así enhoramala andaría el gobierno! Mía fe, señor, la caza y los pasa-tiempos más han de ser para los holgazanes que para los gobernadores.The bear is a gigantic and burly animal with black fur and red eyes. el buen gobernador, la pierna quebrada y en casa. Aunque las burlas y el ridículo terminan siendo en nuestra época mediática algo muy parecido a la muerte violenta.Įn tal sentido, no tiene desperdicio cómo continua Sancho defendiendo su argumento más adelante: 34)Įmborrachando al pobre Mitrofan se cuidaron en esta oportunidad de que no ocurriera lo mismo. Eso es lo que yo digo -respondió Sancho-: que no querría yo que los príncipes y los reyes se pusiesen en semejantes peligros, a trueco de un gusto que parece que no le había de ser, pues consiste en matar a un animal que no ha cometido delito alguno." (Parte II, cap. Ése fue un rey godo -dijo don Quijote-, que, yendo a caza de montería, le comió un oso. Yo me acuerdo haber oído cantar un romance antiguo que dice: "Yo no sé qué gusto se recibe de esperar a un animal que, si os alcanza con un colmillo, os puede quitar la vida. La historia, como bien saben, se hizo proverbial.Īsí, por ejemplo, Sancho Panza la recuerda con malicia cuando los duques lo quieren llevar de cacería: De breve reinado, no? Porque murió antes de tiempo en las garras de un oso al que pretendía cazar. And the king, who has been collecting the cartoons of El Jueves made on him, explicitly liked it.Įl rey Juan Carlos tendría que haber recordado a su antecesor visigodo, el rey Favila, que reinó entre el 737 y el 739. However, the court has acquitted them by saying that the cartoon was “cruel” but “absolutely acceptable in a democratic society”. The most famous one is the title page of the weekly humor supplement of El Jueves which was sued ex officio by the state prosecutor for high treason, as according to its inscription the bear was made drunk so he would be “on equal conditions” with the king. The visual commentaries are not missing either, first of all in the Spanish press, of course. And the humor blog Harpo has even expounded that a detailed prophecy of the case had been written hieroglyphically long before in the papal coat of arms of Benedict XVI. The otherwise strongly right-wing El Mundo has made an exclusive interview with Starostin, also publishing the photo of Mitrofan. The Guardian has also recalled the cases of the bears stunned before hunting for Khrushchev and Brezhnev, and 24/7 even remembered the similar stories of Ceauşescu. Within a couple of days the news went around the world. Filatov had it brought to the place of hunting in a cage, and had it made stiff drunk with vodka mixed in honey before the hunting. He stated that the bear killed by the king was in the reality a meek animal called Mitrofan from the zoo of the nearby resource village Novlenskoe. They wrote that Sergei Starostin, the supervisor of hunting in Vologda region who had been fired by his superior Andrei Filatov, sent a letter to the Governor of Vologda in which he described in detail the circumstances of the bear hunting of King Juan Carlos in August. The story was exposed in the 19 October 2006 edition of Kommersant. And the exalted guest was none else but Juan Carlos I, King of Spain. True, as the Erevan Radio says, with a minor difference.