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"Don't feed the bears.
At the start of fall, bears are foraging for food to hold them through hibernation.
If food isn't plentiful, bears are more apt to go closer to civilization and raid campgrounds and parks.
A foraging grizzly is not afraid of animals or humans, and will not hesitate to attack when it is hungry.",
"A real night owl.
Brown bears are nocturnal animals, preferring to hunt at night. These relatively shy creatures prefer to avoid other species (including humans) that are more active during the day.
They hunt, fish, eat, and interact with one another during the night.
Brown bears do not hibernate in the same way as other bear species do.
They do sleep quite a bit during the winter though and stay within the confines of a cave or another dry place unless they are disturbed.
During this time, they can be woken up quite easily while other bears will sleep through any type of intrusion.",
"Overeating?
During summer, brown bears eat constantly to increase their body fat for the winter months.",
"Memory experts.
Bears can memorize where they travel with amazing accuracy.
Bears travel away from their dens to find food, sometimes several miles. The bear is equipped with an excellent memory to be able to trace their path.
Not only can they find their way back to their dens, they can find their way back to the food source when they need to feed again.",
"My great, great, great grandfather was...
The now extinct cave bear is believed to be an ancestor of the brown bear.
The cave bear was alive during the Pleistocene Period. This species of bear died off around 10,000 years ago during the last ice age.
Aptly named because most of the fossils were found in caves, the cave bear has very few differences than the brown bear of today.
The main difference is that cave bears spent a significant amount of time in caves whereas brown bears only use caves to hibernate.
Other differences involve the size and skeletal structure of both bears. Cave bears were bigger than brown bears with slightly steeper foreheads.",
"Mmmm, that smells good.
Bears have excellent hearing and an amazing sense of smell.
Bears can hear and smell for miles. They have an attuned sense of hearing and sense of sight that allows them to find food and track their prey.
Their heightened senses also allow them to sense danger and avoid it.
Most bears have five long claws per paw, which can be used to defend themselves in the event a predator or hunter gets too close.",
"A good night's sleep.
People living in Medieval Times believed bears died off in the winter when they were hibernating.
Most bear species disappear into dens, canyons, caverns, and other dark places during the winter where they can stay to keep warm. Hibernation has been adapted specifically to the bear species.
While some hibernators wake long enough to relieve themselves (urination) and eat, the bear, more often then not remains asleep without any movement for several months.
The only exception is the birth of bear cubs. The female rouses enough to give birth and tend to her cubs as needed during these long winter months.",
"Carrying a little extra weight.
The average bear eats 15% of its weight in one day.
Bears can eat large amounts of food because they have extremely large stomachs. Bears gain 200 lbs. from spring to fall.
Some bears hibernate throughout the long winter.
Others, such as polar bears, have to maintain their body heat when the temperature drops drastically. Either way, bears must stay warm and be able to burn off enough fat to survive.",
"Anyone for cinnamon?
The most common bear in North America is the American black bear. The American black bear is also known as the cinnamon bear.
Over 600,000 bears live from the eastern to the western North American coasts. They can be found as far north as Alaska and south into Mexico.
These bears live in forests, near streams, in meadows, and even in the grasslands.
The black bear was quite common to the first settlers of America. However, the numbers have decreased significantly thanks to urban sprawl.",
"There are nine species of bears in the world today.
These include the American black bear, Asiatic black bear, brown bear or grizzly bear, giant panda, polar bear, sloth bear, spectacled bear and sun bear.
Bears range in size from 3.5 to 10 feet long and weigh between 55 and 1,700 pounds. The largest bear is the polar bear; the smallest is the sun bear.",
"Marking their territory.
Just like humans build fences around their property, bears mark their territory.
It is believed that bears mark their territory to identify their territorial boundaries, to communicate with other bears and as a navigational aid.
Bears tend to bite or claw trees leaving their marks clearly visible around 5 to 7 feet high on tree trunks.",
"The right equipment.
A bear’s paws are adapted for its environment.
Polar bears have webbed front paws for swimming, and soles with suction cups so they don’t slip on the ice.
The giant panda has a modified wrist bone which looks like a thumb, for holding and eating bamboo.
Black and sun bears have hook-like claws for climbing trees.
Sloth bears have large, curved claws to open nests of termites.",
"Worth the pain.
Bears are happy to suffer a sting on their noses for a taste of something sweet. The story of Winnie the Pooh is based on fact.
To satisfy their sweet-tooth, bears will break open beehives with their heavy paws, often being painfully stung on their muzzles many times over.",
"They'll eat anything!.
Most bears are omnivores - they'll eat both animals and plants.
Black, brown and sloth bears enjoy a varied omnivorous diet just like humans. Other bears follow more specialized diets.
The polar bear is classified as a carnivore, almost exclusively a meat-eater with seals being the prey of choice.
The Giant Panda is a herbivore, living on a diet of 30 types of bamboo.
The Sloth bear is an insectivore.",
"The nose knows.
Bears rely on their powerful sense of smell to find their prey.
All hunting bears approach their prey from downwind, so that their own scent is not carried towards the unsuspecting prey.
The two most carnivorous bears, polar and brown bears, have different feeding methods.
Polar bears feed only once on a seal and leave the remains.
Brown bears revisit their kill over a few days, covering it with dirt and leaves until they return.",
"Aren't they cute?
Relative to their own weight, bears produce very small cubs.
Bears are the largest carnivores on land, but pound for pound produce the smallest young of any mammal.
Newborn humans weigh about 1/20th as much as its mother, but newborn bear cubs weigh about 1/420th as much as their mother.",
"Small and mean.
Although small, sun bears are still dangerous.
The Malayan sun bear is the smallest bear in the world and it is also the most dangerous animal that a person can encounter in the Asian jungle.
It is one of the few animals that will attack for no reason, ripping apart an enemy with its powerful jaws and razor sharp claws.
The Malayans named this bear 'basindo nantenggil,' meaning 'he who likes to sit high,' because the Sun bear makes its home high in the trees.
With an estimated population below 1,000, the sun bear is one of the rarest animal on earth.",
"Bear hunting.
In the 1800's the Spaniards rode after spectacled bears on horseback, then they would spear them to death.
They would then drink the bear's blood, because they believed that they would gain strength from the bear's spirit.
The largest carnivore in South America, the spectacled bear got its name from the dark circles surrounding its eyes - giving it the appearance of a bear wearing glasses.",
"He's a teddy bear.
Theodore Roosevelt was such an enthusiastic hunter that he would shoot anything that moved.
On an official visit to Mississippi the locals arranged a hunt of assorted wild animals for him.
He shot quite a few animals but when he saw the black bear cub, he couldn't bring himself to shoot it, demanding that it be released.
When the papers got a hold of the story it made the headlines prompting one artist to sketch a humorous cartoon of the ironic event.
Seeing the cartoon is what prompted a toy maker to make the first 'teddy bear.'",
"Kodiak bears are the largest land carnivores in the world.
Male Kodiak bears have been known to reach 1,700 pounds (780 kg).",
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