Biography of the bear

It is found almost throughout Russia, regardless of the climatic belt. The brown bear lives in forest rakes, both coniferous and deciduous, saturated with shrubs and herbs, prefer the mountains of the Caucasus, the Siberian taiga of Baikal. In the fall, when he has nothing to eat, he goes to meadows and fields with oats, corn, mudding everything in his path. In the summer, the bear comes to the tundra and highlands.

The appearance of the bear is difficult to confuse with another animal, it has a large large body, small round ears and eyes, a short tail and barely noticeable paws that are hidden under thick hair. Their color is changed-a shade of wool of a brown bear can be both brown and dark brown, reddish. There is a hump on the withers. Despite the massiveness of the body, the bear is very mobile and fast, it runs well, climbs trees, swims, leaving his head on the surface, makes long jumps.

The bear is easier to run uphill, because his hind legs are longer than the front. The paws of the bear are massive, they have powerful claws, the length of which can reach 10 cm. They move silently through the forest, although its gait is unusual, it seems clumsy: they walk at the same time with the left paws, then with the right, swaying from side to side. Life Brown bears are twilight animals: in the afternoon they lead a passive lifestyle, live mainly in deaf places.

Each bear has its own fuzzy designated area, reaching several hundred square meters. The territory is in a smell: they rub their backs on the trees to leave the particles of the cover there, they can also scratch the bark or leave traces of the teeth. The beast is active at night due to good sense of smell and subtle hearing. Bears wander throughout the year, remain where there is food, and when it ends, they go to another place.

In the summer they stop in the plain taiga or meadow. In winter, a brown bear is looking for a den before snow falling out, mainly in November or December.

First, they look out for secluded dry places, which are difficult to get to: in caves, crevices of rocks, near the swamps, under powerful roots of trees. He covers the surface of the den with leaves, grass, moss, dry brushwood, so that in the spring, melting water does not flow inside. Females build berelogs better than males, as they can be pregnant.

She builds the den deeper to preserve her offspring. Males are sleeping alone. Berlog can be the same for several years. The hibernation lasts from 2. During it, the bear drops body temperature, breathing slows down, there is a loss of fat, which the bear has accumulated over the whole year, about 80 kg. In the middle of the winter period, children are born in a female, mainly two bear cubs, the mass of which resembles puppies.

They are deaf and blind. The cubs are warming in the wool of the bear and eat it with thick and fat milk for three months. During the year they stay with their mother, learn to live, eat plant foods. They play with each other, pushing and fighting, developing skills necessary for hunting. The female at this time protects the cubs, sacrifices her diet for them: getting food, she will not eat her, but will give her to the cubs.

The bear begins to accustom cubs to hunt, to the extraction of a nut, since it is difficult to do this due to the structure of claws in adulthood. Basically, these are acorns, chestnuts, cedar nuts. The main place of prey is Lake Baikal, since this place is varied by food. Here they feed on berries, insects, worms, learn to catch fish, to extract honey. That brown bears eat omnivorous, but basically they eat plant foods.

They can enjoy cereals, mushrooms, berries, acorns. But most of all they prefer wild honey, love to ruin the apiaries. It is easy for them, since their height is about 2 meters. The power of the bear includes insects and rodents: lizards, worms and not only. On the coasts, bears hunt fish, especially near Lake Baikal: they catch the salmon with their paws, look at frogs and other small inhabitants.

Their diet is walrus and seals. More adult individuals, in order to stock up more fat, can hunt mammals: moose, wolves, roe deer. All the time before hibernation, animals try to accumulate fat in order to more easily endure sleep. Since closer to winter is getting less and less food, the bear can become quite aggressive in relation to others. A brown bear is a dangerous predator, so do not treat it calmly.

In the absence of food, he can ruin pastures in the villages. Bears began to attack people more often, mainly females, heading somewhere with their cubs. Most likely, their goal is not to attack a person, but to protect their cubs. To avoid dangerous meetings, maintain noise while walking, go around large shrubs and leave suspicious paths with two rows of paws.

No need to play with small harmless cubs, as their mother can see a threat in you. Despite their danger, bears remain our symbols. They personify power, strength and balance.This is an interesting animal with its own characteristics, which no one has, so their protection is so necessary in the modern world.