Brown bears - smallest unit closed group of predatory mammals.They live in the mountain forests, and taiga.In addition to Russia, found in the Atlas Mountains (North Africa), Asia and Europe.To date, their number has decreased and 125-150 thousand.
Adult animals weigh 75-100 kg.Their body length averaging about 2 meters, and at the withers - about 1 m. In good conditions of life may reach the height of 140 cm with a length of 260 cm and a weight of about 800 kg.Here to what gigantic brown bear can grow.Photo shows them well.The skin is a different color from tan to dark brown.
Unlike many carnivorous animals brown bears and feed on plant food.They love the roots, young shoots of plants, mushrooms, nuts, berries, and can be a long time not to eat meat.Though their main food are small rodents, insects and a variety of honey.
believed that white and brown bears clumsy.So we can speak only in the period when they are preparing for hibernation.At other times, they are excellent swimmers, breaking the strong current, and even brown and deftly climb slopes and trees.These predators are able to run long and fast, chasing prey.Force bears not borrow, they can drag prey weighing 5 quintals of several kilometers.
Brown bears have an excellent sense of smell and hearing.But they do not see very much, especially the fixed objects.They live an average of 30-40 years in captivity can live to 45. They live in certain areas, considering them as their own, and protecting it from encroachment strangers.
Making them have chosen to leave the place can only hunger.In search of food they are able to walk hundreds of kilometers to hibernate because they need to save up to 10 cm layer of fat to be enough for the entire period of sleep.Hungry brown bears do not go to sleep, becoming rods.In this period, they are very dangerous, can attack the wild animals and even humans, become delirious in the settlements.
dens for brown bears look for remote places, thoroughly confusing own tracks.The first days in the den sensitively bear napping, not sleeping.Winter dream of a shallow and differs from other hibernating animals.During sleep, their body temperature drops slightly (by only 3-4 degrees), and the weight is reduced to approximately 40%.The length of hibernation depends on the weather, the age and health of the bear.Typically, they wake up in April.
Cubs have bears born in the middle of winter, while females do not wake up.The kids appear blind, naked, toothless, weighing less than 0.5 kg.Eating fatty mother's milk, they grow very quickly.By the time of the den weigh 6-7 kg and have time to grow a hair.
Male, leaving the den, begins to actively search for food, gain weight.Bear behaves quite differently: I found the food it gives kids, no matter how hungry.However, it is closely monitoring, does not endanger anything to her offspring.All summer wandering mother with cubs, teaching the necessary skills.By the fall of youngsters growing up well, but do not leave the young bear.In the next season, when his mother, new cubs, senior (called Pestunov) will take care of them.Surprisingly, the family has always moved in a certain order: the mother in front, behind it - the kids, the end - Pestunov.
Brown bears are known to man since ancient times.However, unexplored issues related to their lives, very much.For example, why some individuals ustaivayte den somehow, while others are carefully prepared it.Why do some go to bed at the place inhabited, while others go for hundreds of kilometers?Hopefully, the answers to these and other questions will be found, and the number of animals will increase.
