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brown bears in Melissa Gish in valdesqui National Park of North Western Russia female brown bear emerges from a whole bunny that massive rock pile at the foot of a sloping Hill she lives her nose and inhales the Cold Spring are sensing no danger she grunts softly to Signal her two small cups to follow her. things were born during the winter and they obediently trout behind their mother as she steps forward still groggy from her long winter sleep the bear weights for Cubs to a slow-moving stream or she drinks for her Cubs so I did tiny fish that start in the shallow water the winter ice that covered the park streams and lakes has melted and shoots of grass and CJ's rise from the water's edge watch over her curious Cubs the mother bear begins to gorge on the tender Greenery her first meal and nearly six months Domino's hours the most widely distributed bears in the world they are found in dense forest High Plains and Arctic tundra is across North America Europe and Asia the earliest ancestor your your wrist set Travis illuminous sorry guys or the dawn bear lived in Europe around 25 to 20 million years ago no larger than a house cat or a fox terrier this animal was the Forerunner of the many bear species spread around the globe each suited to its environment there's belong to the genus your your sis which means bear and Latin the eight species of modern bear are the sun bear of tropical Asia the spectacled bear South America the sloth bear of India and the polar bear of the Arctic region has the panda China and the Asian black bear of southern Asia and the North American black bear and the brown of which there are 10 subspecies of the subspecies are classified by geography Eurasian and Siri and bears are found in Europe and Northern Asia Eastern Siberia Kamchatka and you use the cerebrum are found in Russia the rare Goldie and Himalayan snow bear found in Asia Asian lands for which they are named you guys a little map where all these little bears are located grizzly bears grizzly bear inhibit the interior Forest of North America the Kodiak bear is a subspecies found only in the car archipelago which is a group of islands off southern coast of Alaska and Costa brown bears are found in habitats along ocean coastlines in Alaska and Russia a bears coat is a pillage verys Great Lengths color even with species from Golden to Brown and from Gray to Black in North America black and brown bear species are sometimes mistaken for each other since black bears can be brown and brown bears what sets brown bears apart from all of their relatives in the distinct is the distinctive shoulder hump right here power muscles under the tongue give the brown bear Superior strength and digging of rocks and tearing apart tree roots to find food all brown bear subspecies have a shoulder hump there is a mammals bears are mammals animals that with exceptions of the bling platypus and Echidna give birth to live young and produce milk to feed them like all mammals fairs are warm-blooded this means that their bodies maintain a constant temperature that is usually warmer than their surroundings with the exception of panda bear with your active in in winter there's develop a layer of thick fat just beneath the skin that protects against heat loss and provides nutrients through the winter and most bears hibernate male Bears which are called boars are larger than female females called cells Eurasian and grizzly bears are the smallest brown bear subspecies in summer when food is plentiful males of the Inland subspecies typically ready around 800 lb females average 450 lb brown bears grow larger than other subspecies because of the colder climate and fatty fish in their diets mail come chatka and Kodiak bears can weigh as much as 1,500 pounds in the summer I can't our up to Ten Feet Tall when standing upright female Kodiak generally half as much as males and stand a few feet shorter all of the Kodiak and it's cousin the polar bear are roughly the same size the Polar Bear spends most of its time in the water or on ice so it is considered a Marine Mammal this makes the Kodiak the largest land-based predator in North America brown bears are omnivores which means that eat both meat and dictation while they get most of their food from grazing on grass and berries and from Scavenging dead animals brown bears also hunt small mammals such as ground squirrels and marmots as well as large game such as caribou and moose are brown bears also capture fish in the summer and fall there is me eat up to 90 lb of food per day doubling their body weight by the onset of winter the brown bear has 42 teeth that allow it to eat almost anything two pairs of long sharp upper and lower canine teeth and six pairs with pointed incisors at the front of the mouth are used for ripping flesh Eaters of small Flats five pairs of large molars along the side of the jaw can crush and grind vegetation nuts and even bone brown bears have a powerful bite force even a great white shark bite at 690 pounds of pressure per square inch or PSI is not is no match for a brown bears bite at 1200 PSI brown bears walk on the soles of their feet and the million characteristic called plantigrade this also allows them to distribute weight over a wide area and run swiftly up to 35 miles per hour despite being so bulky okay guys so we're going to stop the story back at that page and I want to come back and recap some of these fun little fax this is a Syrian Eurasian bear a come shot the bear is Suri bear and a grizzly bear and if you see these little dots on the sign the color coded you can look on this map and it shows you where those bears live larger than modern bear's cave bears live in Europe from about 2 million to 27800 years ago around 1 BC earlier use the word beara to describe the color brown and later became the word bear even from a distance brown bears can be distinguished from black bears by their shoulder house really talked about this little bump here with muscle and tissue this is what distinguishes from bears from their black bear cousin the largest wherever 2130 lb Kodiak named Clyde died at the Dakota zoo in Bismarck Bismarck North Dakota in 1987 Kodiak bears hunt for salmon in rivers and streams that averts a temperature of 61 degrees Fahrenheit in the summer he got himself a nice snack bears are among the few wild animals known to suffer from cavities wow and a diet ocean sugar can cause tooth decay brown bears have the largest brains of any land mammal relative to their size and could recognize people and other Bears decades later the pad of a brown bears paw is moral needed when compared with the rounded pad of a black bear fairies have weak distance vision and often stand up to better see objects that can catch their attention there have been no grizzly bears in California since the 1920s but the Animals still featured on the state flag cannot California Republic flag Bears will investigate anything that smells or sounds unusual in early to see if it is edible brown bears can overturn 100-pound brach's bite through cast iron skillets and easily peel open car windshield because we're such good hearing Wilderness hikers are advised talk or sing to alert Bears if their presents bears are driven to located in sight when they sense the coming of winter and diminishing Food Supplies numbers typically take their dens into a North Face is Bob so that the opening will be well covered with snow I hope you enjoyed some of these fun facts about brown bears and I look forward to reading a little more to you guys with your next project thank you

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