Archive for the 'Bears' Category
Wild wooded places all across Europe and northern Asia are the home of the various kinds of brown bears – huge animals that are sometimes more than eight feet long from the tip of the snout to the beginning of the tiny, two-inch tail.
The Eurasian brown bear is not a sociable animal and it is [...]
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The smallest bear in North America is the black bear, and it is also the most common, since it is found in thickly wooded areas all over the continent. A full grown black bear averages between two and three hundred pounds.
This is the bear that is sometimes seen tied up with a chain at filling [...]
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This is the only bear found in South America. It is found across Columbia and Ecuador to Peru, northern Chile and Bolivia. Its odd name comes from the semicircular white markings around the eyes. These markings are not always complete, and some specimens lack them entirely; the rest of the body is uniformly black or [...]
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The binturong, or bear-cat, is neither a bear nor a cat, but a member of the family that includes the civets and mongooses. It lives in northeastern India and Vietnam, and down through the Malay Peninsula to Indonesia, Borneo, and the Phillipines.
The animal’s body is about thirty inches long and its tail is almost as [...]
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The curious name of this little bear that lives throught Southeast Asia in India, Burma, and Indo-China, south through the Malay Peninsula to Indonesia and Borneo, probably comes from the whittish crescent on its breast. This looks a little like the rays of the rising sun.
It is the smallest of the true bears and a [...]
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The polar bear is found in the Arctic Circle all around the world. It is among the largest of the bears and an adult male may weigh up to 1600 pounds, although the average is about 900 pounds. A female polar bear weighs about 700 pounds on average.
Ice, as everyone knows, is slippery, but the [...]
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Although its home is in the hot countries of India and Sri Lanka, the sloth bear dresses as if for a northern climate; its silky black hair is long and coarse. It apparently has a great capacity for heat, for while it shuns the midday sun, ordinarily, it does on occasion come out of its [...]
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The biggest bears in the world live in Alaska and some of them weigh more than 1500 pounds. They are shy and wary and usually run away with a waddling, shuffling gait if they suspect a hunter is near, but if they are cornered or wounded they will attack with lightning speed and terrific ferocity.
All [...]
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Almost everyone thinks of a grizzly bear as a huge and ferocious animal, and the most dangerous of all the bears. It is true that the grizzly is a big bear, for some old males weigh 1000 pounds, although the average is only about half that much. But most of the time a grizzly is [...]
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