the big-bears puts the biggest carnivorous mammals of the earth and with the Kodiakbären (brown-bear), with a weight up to 800 kg and a length of 3 m, the biggest country-carnivore at all.
Spread The 7 types with 8 types extensive group lives in big interrelated forests of the northern hemisphere (exception): Polar bear, encroaches, however, at some places in the southern hemisphere. Fossil remains are to be found in Africa.
Shape All big-bears have a heavy, clumsy body, a small stub-tail and small, round ears. The different types differ mainly in smaller deviations in the bone-construction. The fur is roughly and densely and colored usually gloomily with exception of the polar bear. Bears are omnivores. The examination of the denture shows breitkronige cheek-teeth.
Behavior The five-toe-y feet of the Sohlengänger are usually in front-placed in the amble and are with powerful, not re-ductile and therefore dull, bent claws fortifies. With its help, bears can dismantle everything, which is to be destroyed with hammer and chisels, in short period into smallest components.
As hurl walk become, even if only relatively short-term, the gallop chosen. Some types are so good climbers that one could call (Malay-bear, lip-bear) it "tree-bears." All possess an excellent sense of smell, can see rather badly, however.
Normally, bears are shyly and little belligerent; nevertheless, one should underestimate the dangerousness and strength of these animals never. Without - like Z. B. Lions - its nature-mood, to announce through any gesture of the body or face, they can suddenly swing back to terrifying paw-blows, that can break the backbone of an elk without further. In general, they don't straighten up on that occasion on its hind legs. The virtually total absence of a Mienenspieles turns it also for experts into unpredictable creatures. In most cases, however, a bear will look for its salvation in the escape.
Nutrition As a loner, bears wander slowly through its precinct at night, that can include 15-20 km2, and scan it after berries, grass and fruits. They satisfy its demand for animal protein with fishings, fawns, young-badgers or otters. Fish are hurled skillfully with a paw-hit from the water and are eaten usually from the backbone. Often, individual bears develop into such gourmets that they take only one single mouthful from a fish and leave the rest of other animals, who frequently then appear in colorful number at such catch-places. The appetite of the bears for honey, that they expose themselves with help of its powerful claws at the beehives, is proverbial without the wildly piercing bees being able to prevent it from its intent. Rarely, a bear attacks adult big-animals since they can avoid the quite clumsy bears normally skillfully.
Winter-silence The bears of the colder region therefore don't hold any real hibernation a winter-silence, with which all body-functions remain gotten. In the winter-quarters, they skin its soles, at which then strained, sucked and is licked.
Reproduction During this silence-period, the Bärin brings its very small and sensitive boys to the world, that only approximately 1/350 of the weight of the mother have, also after 6-9 months of Tragzeit. A postponement of the Eieinbettung guarantees this birth-date favorable for the young-bears. The young stay d with the mother, until they arose approximately half. h. 1-3 years count. The sexually mature steps with females with 2, with males occasionally only with 6 years one.
Ages The maximum-age should be with approximately 40 years, probably rarely is reached in the wild, however.
Also brown-bear, black-bear, glasses-bear, polar bear, Malay-bear, collar-bear, lip-bear.
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