Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
The milk of the female bear is rich in fat and antibodies and cubs may suckle for up to a year after they are born. By two to three months, cubs can follow their mother outside the den. They usually follow her on foot, but sloth bear cubs may ride on their mother's back. [102] [61] Male bears play no role in raising young.
Debby, a female polar bear at the Assiniboine Park Zoo in Winnipeg. She is the world's oldest known polar bear, dying at age 41. Flocke, a female polar bear, was born in captivity at the Nuremberg Zoo in Nuremberg, Germany, on 11 December 2007. After concerns over the cub's safety were raised due to her aggressive mother, Flocke was removed ...
The North American Bear Center, located in Ely, Minnesota, is home to the world's largest captive male and female American black bears. Ted, the male, weighed 431–453.5 kg (950–1,000 lb) in the fall of 2006. [63] Honey, the female, weighed 219.6 kg (484 lb) in the fall of 2007. [64]
Male polar bears also have proportionally larger heads than females. [34] The weight of polar bears fluctuates during the year, as they can bulk up on fat and increase their mass by 50 percent. [31] A fattened, pregnant female can weigh as much as 500 kg (1,100 lb). [35] Adults may stand 130–160 cm (4.3–5.2 ft) tall at the shoulder.
Video footage from the incident, caught on the live webcams, shows bear number 469, an adult male bear estimated to be 30 years old, attack bear number 402, who is an older adult female while the ...
This will teach them to understand the bear, to know safety precautions, to know baiting techniques, to know the difference between a male and female bear and how to harvest the bear properly ...
Grizzly bears hibernate for five to seven months each year [51] (except where the climate is warm—the California grizzly did not hibernate). [6] During this time, female grizzly bears give birth to their offspring, who then consume milk from their mother and gain strength for the remainder of the hibernation period. [52]
Lighter Side. Medicare. new