Bear Facts
Bear Facts
- Alaskan brown bears, world's largest meat-eating animals that live on land, can weigh as much as 1,700 pounds (771 kilograms)
- The grizzly bear can run as fast as the average horse!!
- Bears are native to the continents of North America, Asia, Europe, and South America.
- At birth, a panda is smaller than a mouse and weighs about four ounces.
- The wild panda's diet consist 99% of bamboo.
- DThe only predator that polar bears have are humans.
- The Kodiak, which is native to Alaska, is the largest bear and can measure up to eight feet and weigh as much as 1,700 pounds.
- Polar bears have been known to swim more than 60 miles without resting.
- Polar bears can smell seals who are 20 miles away.
- Polar bears can eat as much as ten percent of their body weight in less than one hour.
- Polar bears are excellent swimmers. They have been known to swim more than 60 miles without a rest.
- Polar bear livers contain so much Vitamin A that it can be fatal if eaten by a human.
- Not all polar bears hibernate; only pregnant females polar bears do.
- In the last 30 years, only seven people have been killed by a polar bear in Canada.
- If you spray an antiseptic spray on a polar bear, its fur will turn purple.
- 98% of brown bears in the United States are in Alaska.
- Female and male black bears cannot tolerate being around each other except when they breed.
- All polar bears are left handed.
- Male bears are called boars.
- The smallest species of bears is called sun or Malayan bears.
- Bears whose brown fur is tipped with lighter-colored hairs are called grizzly bears.
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