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Eurasian Brown Bear |
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 rare to see two of them together in the forests, unless they are a mother and her cubs. There are usually two of the babies and they are born as small, hairless creatures while the mother is hidden away for her winter’s sleep. But they grow rapidly and are well covered with fur when the mother leads them forth in the spring.
Although a brown bear may be quite fat when it begins its winter sleep, much of this fat disappears during the winter.
Many stories are told of the fearsome bear hug in which a bear is supposed to grasp a man and squeeze him to death. Naturalists do not believe a bear actually kills a man by hugging him in this manner, but a bear can be very dangerous with its large, heavily clawed paws.
In the Middle Ages, and even in recent years in some parts of Europe, travelling bands of gypsies exhibited brown bears which have been taught to dance. This is not a real dance, but a kind of shuffle which the bears easily learn to do.
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