Pregnancy and Birth The bear gestation period varies between 180 and 266 days. The embryo's development goes on hold temporarily at first, as the female gorges herself on whatever foods are available during the summer and autumn to develop a layer of fat off to live on through the winter mo...
The smallest of the brown bear subspecies is the Eurasian bear, the largest population of which is in the mountains of Romania. Ancient historians report the brown bears of Europe to be largely carnivorous, regularly hunting both large and small game from reindeer to squirrels. These are the sa...
The brown bear is the second-largest of the eight species of bear alive today. The grizzly bear is the second-largest subspecies of brown bear. Only the very similar Kodiak bear is bigger. (Kodiak bears are found onKodiak Archipelago, a group of islands south of Alaska.) On average, the...
Being a bear, his birth had not been like that of other animals. His mother, like all mother-bears in a cold country, had brought him into life a long time before she had finished her winter nap in her den. He had come while she was asleep. For a month or six weeks after that,...
Grizzly bear, common name for a brown bear belonging to the subspecies Ursus arctos horribilis. It is a massive animal with humped shoulders and an elevated forehead. The fur is brownish to buff, and the hairs are usually silver- or pale-tipped to give t