Bear Facts – Interesting Facts About Bear

Black Bear Facts

Polar bears have black skin under their fur.

Polar bears can smell its prey on ice from 20 miles or 32 km.

Grizzly bears bite can crush a bowling ball. They exert over 8,000,000 Pascal of bite force.

People in Churchill, Canada leave their car doors unlocked to offer an escape for pedestrians if they encounter polar bears.

The original word for “bear” has been lost. Medieval people believed that saying the animals name would summon them, so they used a euphemism that meant “The Brown one” (“Bear”).

Antarctica is void of polar bears. They can only be found in Arctic.

A grizzly bear has to devour almost 20,000 calories per day.

Black bears are not always black. They can come in a rainbow of colors from black to reddish brown to light brown to white.

Panda bear is having a large head for its body. It is believe that it needs a strong jaw and neck muscles to eat bamboo, which from 90 percent of their diet. The remaining 1 percent mainly consists of insects on bamboo and the dead meat that panda may find.

There was a bear in the Polish Army in WW2. He carried shields to the frontline and was taught to salute.