I’ve seen a purple-headed raccoon before - it stole a can of purple drink mix crystals from my campsite and ate it, getting purple food colour all over its head in the process.
I’m guessing blue-headed bear has a similar explaination.
More like ‘stuck its snout into the container to lick up the sugary goodness, got delicious sugary drink crystals all over its snout, licked its chops creating colourful saliva, which it proceeded to rub at and lick until the mixture worked itself into its fur all over its head’.
Or at least, in the case of the Racoon, that’s how I assume it dyed itself purple.
Do you ever click the “last post” button expecting to find yourself in a debate about the Ramapo school district and find yourself reading what seem like a series of extremely loose metaphors that you don’t understand?
What is a Blue-Headed Bear a metaphor for?
(That sounds like something out of the Freshman English Literature syllabus)
“Oh, bother,” said Pooh, “I’ve gotten blue gelatin powder all over my head!”
It’s the right shade of teal to be cyanobacteria. It’s actually part plant, it photosynthesizes. Neat stuff, but stinky. It smells like rotten garbage with a touch of sulfur and fish, so I can see how it might be attractive to a bear.
I had it in an aquarium once. It didn’t get too overgrown before I treated it but that’s just what I’d expect to see if a bear dipped its head in a pool of water during a cyanobacteria overgrowth.