EUROPEAN BROWN BEAR
(Ursus arctos arctos)

The Brown Bear is an omnivorous mammal of the order carnivora. The brown bear male can weigh 100-350 kg and the female 60-200 kg. They grow to between 130-250 cm in body length and live for 20-30 years. Brown bears live in the forest of northern europe, north america and asia.

They eat berries, roots and herbs from the forest vegetation but also rodent, bird eggs and fish. It is rare that the brown bear kills sheep, deer, rein deer and moose since they are solitary hunters.

In autumn it is important for the bear to eat a lot of food before it starts its long winter sleep from oktober, november through to march. During its sleep its body and senses funktion normaly and it occasionally wakes up to urinate og defecate.

The mating season takes place from late May through early July. The cubs are born during winter and are blind, toothless, hairless and weigh less than 1 pound at birth. They feed on their mother’s milk until spring or early summer. The cubs, which will weigh from 15 to 20 pounds at this time, will have developed enough to begin to forage for solid food. Cubs will remain with their mother from two to four years, during which time they will learn survival techniques such as which foods have the highest nutritional values and where to attain them, how to hunt, how to fish, how to defend themselves and where to den.


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