The bear

📖 In short

The bear is a huge, strong animal with thick, rough fur, long claws and a very powerful nose. Although it's a meat-eater, most bears also eat fruit, nuts, leaves, insects, honey and fish.

🤩 Did you know?

The Alaskan brown bear is one of the largest land meat-eaters and can weigh about 800 kilograms.
The sun bear is one of the smallest bears, about 90 centimeters long.
A bear cub is born very small, about the size of a squirrel.
A bear's sense of smell is stronger than a dog's.

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🌟 Many kinds

Bears include the big brown bear, the white polar bear that lives on the ice, the black bear, the bamboo-eating giant panda and the little sun bear.

🔍 The fisherman

The brown bear stands in the river when the salmon swim upstream, and catches them in its mouth or with its claws as they leap out of the water. What a skilled fisher!

💡 Winter sleep

Bears eat a lot in autumn to get fat, then sleep in their den for most of the cold winter. The mother gives birth to her cubs in the den, and they come out with her in spring.