#bear facts

[thatwobblychair]

CoD Baddies as Bears!

What if the bad guys were also bears! Part 3

See part 2 and 1 for 141 and good guys as bears

Even more bear facts because bears are love, bears are life. 🐻🐻‍❄️🧬

Makarov: Ussuri Brown Bear "Russian Grizzly Bear"

Ursus arctos lasiotus

Also known as the Ezo Brown bear or Black Grizzly bear, this subspecies of Eurasian Brown Bear is one of the largest, with some individuals approaching the Kodiak Bear in size.

Similar to the Kamchatka Brown Bear, it differs with an elongated skull, longer nasal bones, elevated forehead and is darker in colour with some individuals being pure black.

Siberian (Amur) tigers and other bears are it's only natural predators, with documented tiger and bear interspecific competitions. Ussuri brown bears will often scavenge tiger kills and or kill smaller tigers, while Tigers are known to hunt young and sub-adult bears (bears making a significant portion of their diet).

Graves: Louisiana Black Bear

Ursus americanus luteolus

A subspecies* of the American Black Bear (U. a. americanus), the Louisiana Black Bear has been historically found in Louisiana, Mississippi, East Texas and Arkansas.

It is not substantially different from the American Black Bear, though it has a longer, flatter, narrower skull and larger molars in comparison. It's colouration is typically black, though some individuals have been known to be brown/red-brown cinnamon. It is Louisiana's official state mammal.

*The validity of this subspecies has been repeatedly debated.

Valeria: Sloth Bear "Indian Bear"

Melursus ursinus

A native species to the Indian Subcontinent, this medium sized bear feeds on ants, termites and fruit. It is also called the "labiated bear" due to its long lower lip and palate which is used to eat insects.

It's fur is pure black aside from the white "Y" or "V" patch on its chest though this can be absent in some individuals. They are similar in size with the Asian Black Bear though distinguished with it's shaggy mane, white 'sickle' claws, and rangier build.

This species is the most aggressive to humans with the largest number of recorded attacks due to a combination of close human cohabitation and a theorised predisposition to aggressive behaviour from constant attacks by tigers, leopards, rhinos and elephants.

Captain Williamson in his Oriental Field Sports (1819) wrote of how sloth bears rarely killed their human victims outright, but would suck and chew on their limbs till they were reduced to bloody pulps.

They are not known to be man eaters despite attacking humans. One individual in Mysore (Mysuru), India was recorded to have killed at least 12 people and mutilated 24 before it's death in 1957.

Shepherd: Koala "Koala Bear"**

Phascolarctos cinereus

**not a bear

An arboreal marsupial native to Australia that feeds primarily on Eucalyptus leaves. Koalas are asocial with bonding only taking place between mothers and dependant offspring. They are largely sedentary and will sleep upwards to 20 hours a day.

The word "koala" came from the Dharug word "gula" - no water. The 'u' sound was originally written phonetically as 'oo' and then became 'oa'. The three syllable pronunciation may be erroneous as a result.

White settlers adopted the 'koala' indigenous loan word in reference to the animal, where it was also referred to as, the "native bear", or the "koala bear" due to its supposed bear-ish resemblance.

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Info from Wikipedia. Please let me know if I screwed up somewhere. 🐻

[cybernightart]

So I really like bears in general, like my old username used to be centered around bears. So I know quite a few random facts about bears, one of which they love ice cream, but I just remembered one that's got me thinking.

Bears can purr, they purr when they're happy and they're getting pets, chin scratches and being scratched behind the ear and stuff like a cat.

So would Freddy fazbear and all other FNAF bears also purr? And I mean bear purr sound quite different from a normal cat purr, sounding more close to a helicopter than a faint noise. But the idea of let's say Glamrock Freddy getting really happy and then just making this deep grumbling purr noise, probably much to everyone's confusion including his own, because in the five Nights at Freddy's universe Bears went extinct 😭 is so funny to me

[sammylilcupcake]

Been feeling silly and little lately

Sooo.... I'm going to talk bout my favorite animal

It's soooo hard to choose an animal as my fav but I will try my best to choose one and give some fact.

My fav animal is Grizzly bear 🐻.

🐻 Grizzly bear has the longest claw among all the 8 species of bear in the world (around 4 inches or 10.16cm).

🐻 Mother Grizzly also can nurse her baby up to 3 years old.

🐻 Grizzly bear also like to eat a lots up to 90 pounds or 40.823 kg.

🐻 Grizzly bear also compete for food with wolves and sometimes can either lose their prey or win one.

🐻 Grizzly bear also a fast runner (30 miles/hours or 48.3 km/hours)

[bigboybeargrr]

Bears are the only large predators that regularly eat both meat and plants. For this reason, they have different teeth specifically used for meat eating and plant eating.

[offurandfeathers]

Bear precautions

If it's black, fight back.

If it's brown, stay down

If it's white, say goodnight

If it's cave, get what you crave

[littlemistermedly]

So today I learned from Brennan Lee Mulligan that bears make butt plugs out of moss so they don't poop while hibernating.....

And now I can't unimagine and unthink of Halsin creating butt plugs out of moss 💀💀💀💀

And all thanks to the Burrow's End series where the party fights a swarm of monsterous chimpmunks in the insides of a living bear. Thanks Brennan.

[sleepyqwerty]

Did you know

Did you know the oldest recorded bear was Debby the bear. She was born 1966 and lived up to the year 2008; making her 41-42 years old.

Well now you know

[ben-c-group-therapy]

My second wild bear sighting and I was equally as happy lol. I was hoping to see a black bear when I visited Great Smokey Mountains National Park for a quick drive through Cades Cove. Or not so quick drive. Jesus Christ!

We had forty minutes from the park entrance to get to the visitor center before it closed and while it’s not that long mile wise, it too every bit of it. Anyway, the bear. I had a evening to see what little of GSMNP I could and I was thrilled I got in a Bear Jam. So as we continued riding slowly through the traffic seeing what it was holding everyone up, I popped out of the sunroof and snapped some photos because if I couldn’t stop and I couldn’t focus my phone well enough past the driver, then dammit if there was a will there’s a way.

While black bears are numerous in the park and Smokey Mountains the area is heavily wooded, they tend to make their dens up in the trees, and it all equals out to about a bear every two square miles. My chances were slim and after the shitty month I had I was not expecting to see one.

So seeing this not so little cutie pop up from the brush made my little broken heart happy for awhile.

So,

Grizzly Bears ✅

Black Bear ✅

Polar Bear (that’s going to be a tough one)

Panda (not at all likely)

Sun Bear (not probable either)

That’s my ramble for the night…thanks for looking/ listening or scrolling.

Here’s a photo of momma grizzly and her grizzly cubs a few years back at Yellowstone for your viewing pleasure as a thank you.

[thebearbonefacts]

[thatwobblychair]

141 Bear! Edition

Cause what if 141 were bears?

Including bear facts ! Why? Because bears are cute. 💕

Ghost: Spirit Bear "Kermode Bear"

Ursus americanus kermodei

A subspecies of the American Black Bear that lives exclusively on the coastal shores of British Columbia, Canada.

They are not actually albinos, but instead have a recessive gene that causes the white pigmentation to their fur and eyes. For example, two black 'kermode bears' with the recessive gene can produce a white furred bear.

The white fur is thought to be advantageous towards hunting salmon, as it is theorised that the white colour makes it harder for fish to evade them.

Soap: Sun Bear

Helarctos malayanus

An Asiatic bear that stands as the smallest of all bear species, ranging from northeastern India and extending south to Bangladesh, Myanmar, Thailand, Cambodia, Laos, and Vietnam to Brunei, Indonesia, and Malaysia.

They measure between 4-5 ft from tail to snout and weigh between 55- 145 lbs. It is an excellent climber that is known to be the most arboreal of all bears.

Their name is derived from the orangey- cream colour 'sun' crest on their chest. Another name for them is Honey Bear or beruang madu, in Malay/Indonesian due to their love of feeding on honey combs.

Gaz: Cinnamon Bear

Ursus americanus cinnamomum

Another subspecies and colour morph of the American Black Bear. It is thought to exist and interbreed with the black coloured American Black Bears.

The name is derived from the brown to red-brown fur colour that resembles cinnamon. It's coat colouration is theorised to be a mimic of grizzly bears who may also cohabit the same areas.

Price: Grizzly Bear "North American Brown Bear"

Ursus arctos horribilis

Despite being known as the 'grizzly bear' or 'grizzly', the bear is categorised as a subspecies or pop. of the Brown Bear, a species that originates in Eurasia. It is thought that this subspecies/pop. migrated to North America between 177,000 BP ~ 111,000 BP.

There are other morphological forms of brown bears in North America also termed as 'grizzly' that were once considered subspecies but is now synonmised with Ursus arctos horribilis, such as the "Kodiak Bear and the "Alaska Peninsular Bear". The 'grizzly bear' historical range starts from Alaska to Mexico, taking in consideration of past subspecies that are now extinct, though it's current population is situated mainly in North America.

It's name came from the descriptor 'grisley' which can be read as 'grizzled' - grey haired, or "grisly" -fearsome, inspiring, though it was formally classified as U. horribilis, for it's terrible character in 1815.

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*all facts taken from wiki. If there are any mistakes let me know!

[bearotonin-international]

Do bears lift their legs to urinate ever?

No they don't. Because this is such a specific ask, we will take this opportunity to share a fun fact that watching bears pee is one of the easiest ways to identify their sex, and especially for cubs.

Bears of all ages can be sexed by watching them pee. Male bears will urinate straight down between their hind legs. Females will urinate backward between their hind legs. Urination pattern is especially useful when you are trying to determine the sex of cubs. Source

The more you know

[cybernightart]

So Bears have a bite force of over 1200 PSI which is enough to crush a bowling ball apparently...

Now I'm just picturing glam rock Freddy just putting a bowling ball in his mouth and crushing it with glam rock bonnie just staring at him with a mix of of fear and fascination on his face.

I want to make a comic about that...

[bigboybeargrr]

While most bears have bare feet, the paws of polar bears have fur on the bottoms and between the toes! This is because bears lose most of their heat from their paws and polar bears need to store warmth to survive in their natural habitat!

[whatisthenameofgod]

fun fact: the atmosphere is made entirely of projected psychic energy from bears. the reason bears hibernate is to dedicate all of their time and resources to the bearrier when they are able

[facts-that-you-will-never-need]

In Alaska it's illegal to wake a bear and take a picture for photo opportunities

[dargeereads]

Bear Facts by Jennifer Ashley

 5 stars

audiobook

So happy to be back in Vegas and focused on the bears!!! Bears are some of the best shifters, and Shane is textbook with his easy-going manner, love of all things sweet, and ability to switch into a vicious predator in a moment. Freya is no easy-going wolf, she is under pressure, frightened, and unsure, but she has such inner strength, it radiates from her. Loved the story, the twists and the new characters, and the narration was, once again, superb <3 p.s. and don’t worry, just because we are in Vegas doesn’t mean we don’t get some Tiger time 😊