GRIZZLY BEAR...THINGS I LOVE.

Out in the mountain wilderness from Alaska to Mexico, the grizzly bear lives alone. It mostly feeds on carrion and recently killed animals. Grizzly bears often steal other animals kills to eat. Grizzlies have an interesting diet. They eat anything from insects to moose. They eat about 20,000 moths a day.
                                                  Interesting facts
Did you know that a grizzly bear can match a horse's speed for 330 feet? The arms of a grizzly are so strong they can hug a person to death. The grizzly was once seen to kill a black bear with one blow knocking it in to a tree. The grizzly can kill anything equal or less than its size. The Indians attributed supernatural powers to the grizzly.

                                                Why it's threatened
The grizzly bear is a threatened species. Which means it is not endangered. The grizzlies are threatened because of logging and mineral development. Another threat is man killing their favorite kind of fish, cutthroat trout Due to overfishing most of the cutthroat trout are dead. In the 1970's there were only 300 grizzlies left in the lower states. The grizzly bear has been hunted since the stone age. The grizzly has a little protection Yellowstone National Park in Montana.

                                                          Good facts
The grizzly bear is a huge animal. It's pretty heavy. It weighs 300-over 800 pounds. Its shoulders are 41 inches but its tail is only 3-5 inches long. Most grizzlies grow to be twice the size of a tiger. Grizzlies have 2-4 cubs every 2-4 years. Females breed at the age of 5 . If a female is protecting her cubs she'll fight to the death.

A BEAR'S SENSE OF SMELL

If someone were to ask you, "how does a bear smell," you could answer in two ways. Bears smell real bad – or so I’m told. Bears are thought to have the best sense of smell of any animal on earth. For example, the average dog’s sense of smell is 100 times better than a human. A blood hound is 300 times better. A bear’s sense of smell is 7 times better than a blood hound’s or 2,100 times better than a human.

Bears acute sense of smell evolved in order to help them find food, mates, keep track of their cubs and avoid danger, particularly between competing individuals. Except for mother bears, bears are territorial animals that need to range widely to find enough food to sustain themselves.
Bears have an incredible sense of smell because the area of their brain that manages the sense of smell, called the olfactory bulb, is at least 5 times larger than the same area in human brains even though a bear’s brain is one third the size.

Bears also have highly developed noses that contain hundred of tiny muscles and let them manipulate them with the same dexterity as people’s fingers. The surface area inside their 9 inch noses also has hundreds of times more surface area and receptors than a human’s.
So the next time you make camp in bear country, make sure you hang a bear bag or store your food in a bear-resistant bag or canister at least 100 yards away from your shelter.

HOW BEARS COMMUNICATES

Yesterday after work, i picked up a movie which has to do with polar bears and it was so fascinating how they communicated all through the movie and i really wanted to know if they could really communicate or it is one of those hollywood trick again. Well, it worked!

Bears communicate by seeing, touching, vocalizing and smelling. Their communication help keep cubs and mothers together, find mate and relieve social tensions. Bears speak a language of dominance or submission, of aggression or solicitation. They react to people in thesame way. they would react to another bear. Paying attention to their reaction is a good way of staying out their trouble.

Bears threaten one another. Though bears are large and very powerful capable of causing injury to one another and people, they prefer the use of threats displays as an alternative to actual fighting. These also applies to their reaction to humans.

The Big Sleep

When most people think of hibernation they picture bears. Yet bears aren't true hibernators. Their long nap is more properly called winter lethargy. Discover the important difference, as well as which animals are true hibernators.