Commentary

Teddy Bears

Where did bear come from? Bear as we know him has not exxisted on this earth for a very long penod of time , but his predecessors may go back many hundreds of years. Most authorities now beliave that the handsome , two-legged bear of today evolvedfrom a single celled organism –a speck of dust perhaps . Then Gradually , through natur selection and survival of the fittest speck , cotton wool balls developed . we don’t know exactly when the first soft furnishings appeared on earth , but they must have been very simple beings. In the beginning was the cushion . Not very impressive object-simply a lump or padding material held together with some sort of covering – But from this inaeuspicious star developed two reptilian forms that were the direct ancestors of modem bear .

One of the evolutionary steps occurred when a mutant , misshapen cushion was created . he must have appeared very strange to his fellow cushion , but he was the frist been bag frog . filled with beans, rice other non-toxic subtance , he had two eyes and four legs . Bean Bag Frogs , However , were pretty useless on land , being incredibly fluffy , and in water they tended to sink.

At about the same time as the bean Bag Frog was emerging , the cushion was developing along different lines into the Draught Excluder . At first marely a long thin cushion , it gradually evolved eyes , a forked tongue and a petterned body. It’s tendencey to lie along the bottom of draughty doors perhaps points to the lack of an efficient body cooling mechanism.