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Writing of it, he said: “I have got a new friend, the finest in the world. When I brought him here, they asked me what I meant to do with him, and my reply was, ‘he should sit for a fellowship’.” Upon purchasing his new pet, Byron proceeded to parade him around campus on a chain, terrifying the other students.Adultery, elopement and incest: the scandalous sex lives of the 18th-century ByronPaddingtoThe award for the most polite individual on the list goes to a certain duffle-coat-wearing, marmalade-eating, Peruvian bear. Yes, he has the advantage of speech (and being fictional) but his formal manner has earned him worldwide respect. His creator, Michael Bond, found inspiration in a lone teddy bear at London’s Paddington Station in 1956Ten days later, his well-mannered character had been brought to life. But don’t be deceived, this bear drives a mean bargain, and one of his ‘hard stares’ may leave you questioning every decision you ever made.The first teddy bearConsidering he hated his nickname, it’s ironic that Theodore Roosevelt has been immortalised in the eponymous teddy bear. The link came about following a hunting trip in 1902, during which the President had refused to shoot dead a captured bear. A cartoon relating the tale was published in The Washington Post, inspiring Morris Michtom to create a stuffed toy in his honour. Roosevelt gave him permission to use his name, and the rest, as they say, is history.
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Ursa MajorAt over 13,000 years old, and with an excellent vantage point, this bear has seen a lot. Ursa Major, or ‘the great she-bear’ as her name means in Latin, is the third-largest constellation in the sky, and home to dozens of galaxies. For millennia it has been used to locate the North Star in Ursa Minor (the nearby ‘little bear’), setting lost travellers back on the right path. It is thought that her origins lie in the Paleolithic era, when bears were worshippped.Star chart showing Ursa Major as a bearThe stars of Ursa Major are imagined to take the shape of a bear, as illustrated in this c1825 star chart (Photo by Getty Images)Rocky, the paratrooperWhen members of the 187th Airborne Regimental Combat Team decided that they needed a mascot, they went to the zoo and asked for a bear. Her name was Rocky, and during her ‘tour of duty’ carried out five parachute jumps, qualifying her for official paratrooper status. Despite this, she apparently disliked the jumps, as she once gnawed the boot of a man who had ‘helped’ her out of the plane.The real Winnie the Poohlieutenant at the start of World War I, Winnipeg accompanied him to England, where she was donated to London Zoo.
