Bear Facts – Interesting Facts About Bear
Cool Facts About Bears
The name grizzly bear refers to the grizzled hair or silver tipped hair of a brown bear.
Sun bear is the smallest of the bears. It gets its name from the blond chest patch of fur that looks like a setting sun. Sun bears are also known as honey bears.
Of the eight bear species four live in Northern hemisphere and the remaining four in Southern Hemisphere.
Almost two thirds in the world live in North America.
North America is home to three of world’s eight bear species: brown, American black, and polar bears.
Polar bears live only north of the Equator in the Arctic. Penguins live only south of the Equator in the Antarctic.
The only bears that are more active at night are Sloth bears.
In Asia, bear cubs are often taken from their mothers at an early age to train them as dancing bears. Bears ability to stand on hind feet and shuffle in a way looks somewhat like dancing.
About 80,000 bears are kept on “bear farms” in China. They are bred and kept in captivity to extract bile from gallbladders for medicinal purposes.
Asiatic black bear has the largest ears of any species of bears.
