Bear

This article is about the placental family. For the koala 1 Etymology
and extinct bear-like marsupials, see Phascolarctidae.
Ursine redirects here. For the village, see Ursine, The English word bear comes from Old English bera
Nevada. For other uses, see Bear (disambiguation).
and belongs to a family of names for the bear in
Germanic languages that originate from an adjective
[3]
Bears are mammals of the family Ursidae. Bears meaning brown. In Scandinavia, the word for bear is
are classied as caniforms, or doglike carnivorans, with bjrn (or bjrn), and is a relatively common given name
the pinnipeds being their closest living relatives. Al- for males. The use of this name is ancient and has been
[4]
though only eight species of bears are extant, they are found mentioned in several runestone inscriptions.
widespread, appearing in a wide variety of habitats The reconstructed Proto-Indo-European name of the
throughout the Northern Hemisphere and partially in the bear is *htos, whence Sanskrit ka, Avestan ara,
Southern Hemisphere. Bears are found on the continents Greek (arktos), Latin ursus, Welsh arth (whence
of North America, South America, Europe, and Asia.
perhaps "Arthur"), Albanian ari, Armenian (arj).
Also compared is Hittite artagga-, the name of a monster or predator.[3] In the binomial name of the brown
bear, Ursus arctos, Linnaeus simply combined the Latin
and Greek names.

Common characteristics of modern bears include large

bodies with stocky legs, long snouts, shaggy hair,
plantigrade paws with ve nonretractile claws, and short
tails. While the polar bear is mostly carnivorous, and the
giant panda feeds almost entirely on bamboo, the remaining six species are omnivorous with varied diets.

The Proto-Indo-European (PIE) word for bear, *htos

seems to have been subject to taboo deformation or
replacement in some languages (as was the word for
wolf, wlkw os), resulting in the use of numerous unrelated
words with meanings like brown one (English bruin)
and honey-eater (Slavic medved).[5] Thus, some IndoEuropean language groups do not share the same PIE
root.

With the exception of courting individuals and mothers with their young, bears are typically solitary animals.
They are generally diurnal, but may be active during the
night (nocturnal) or twilight (crepuscular), particularly
around humans. Bears possess an excellent sense of smell
and, despite their heavy build and awkward gait, are adept
runners, climbers, and swimmers. In autumn, some bear
species forage large amounts of fermented fruits, which
aects their behavior.[1] Bears use shelters, such as caves 2 Evolutionary history
and burrows, as their dens; most species occupy their dens
during the winter for a long period (up to 100 days) of
The family Ursidae is one of nine families in the subsleep similar to hibernation.[2]
order Caniformia, or doglike carnivores, within the
Bears have been hunted since prehistoric times for their order Carnivora. Bears closest living relatives are the
meat and fur. With their tremendous physical presence pinnipeds, canids, and musteloids.[6]
and charisma, they play a prominent role in the arts,
The following synapomorphic (derived) traits set bears
mythology, and other cultural aspects of various human
apart from related families:
societies. In modern times, the bears existence has been
pressured through the encroachment on their habitats and
presence of an alisphenoid canal
the illegal trade of bears and bear parts, including the
Asian bile bear market. The IUCN lists six bear species as
paroccipital processes that are large and not fused to
vulnerable or endangered, and even least concern species,
the auditory bullae
such as the brown bear, are at risk of extirpation in certain
countries. The poaching and international trade of these
auditory bullae are not enlarged
most threatened populations are prohibited, but still ongoing.
lacrimal bone is vestigial
cheek teeth are bunodont and hence indicative of
a broad, hypocarnivorous (not strictly meat-eating)
diet (although hypercarnivorous (strictly meateating) taxa are known from the fossil record)[7]
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2 EVOLUTIONARY HISTORY
carnassials are attened

all living bears. Species of Ursavus subsequently entered North America, together with Amphicynodon and
Additionally, members of this family possess posteriorly Cephalogale, during the early Miocene (2118 Mya).
oriented M2 postprotocrista molars, elongated m2 mo- Members of the living lineages of bears diverged from
lars, and a reduction of the premolars.
Ursavus between 15 and 20 Mya ago,[10][11] likely via the
Modern bears comprise eight species in three subfam- species Ursavus elmensis. Based on genetic and morphoilies: Ailuropodinae (monotypic with the giant panda), logical data, the Ailuropodinae (pandas) were the rst to
Tremarctinae (monotypic with the spectacled bear), and diverge from other living bears about 19 Mya ago, alof this group have been found before
Ursinae (containing six species divided into one to three though no fossils
[12]
about
5
Mya.
genera, depending on the authority).

2.1

Fossil bears

The New World short-faced bears (Tremarctinae) differentiated from Ursinae following a dispersal event
into North America during the mid-Miocene (about 13
Mya).[12] They invaded South America (~1 Ma) following formation of the Isthmus of Panama.[13] Their earliest fossil representative is Plionarctos in North America (~ 102 Ma). This genus is probably the direct ancestor to the North American short-faced bears (genus
Arctodus), the South American short-faced bears (Arctotherium), and the spectacled bears, Tremarctos, represented by both an extinct North American species (T.
oridanus), and the lone surviving representative of the
Tremarctinae, the South American spectacled bear (T.
ornatus).

Plithocyon armagnacensis skull

The earliest members of Ursidae belong to the extinct

subfamily Amphicynodontinae, including Parictis (late
Eocene to early middle Miocene, 3818 Mya) and the
slightly younger Allocyon (early Oligocene, 3430 Mya),
both from North America. These animals looked very
dierent from todays bears, being small and raccoonlike in overall appearance, and diets perhaps more similar to that of a badger. Parictis does not appear in Eurasia
and Africa until the Miocene.[8] It is unclear whether lateEocene ursids were also present in Eurasia, although faunal exchange across the Bering land bridge may have been
possible during a major sea level low stand as early as the
late Eocene (about 37 Mya) and continuing into the early
Oligocene.[9] European genera morphologically are very
similar to Allocyon, and also the much younger American Kolponomos (about 18 Mya), are known from the
Oligocene, including Amphicticeps and Amphicynodon.
The raccoon-sized, dog-like Cephalogale is the oldestknown member of the subfamily Hemicyoninae, which
rst appeared during the middle Oligocene in Eurasia about 30 Mya ago. The subfamily also includes
the younger genera Phoberocyon (2015 Mya), and
Plithocyon (157 Mya).
A Cephalogale-like species gave rise to the genus Ursavus
during the early Oligocene (3028 Mya); this genus proliferated into many species in Asia and is ancestral to

Fossil of cave bear (Ursus spelaeus)

The subfamily Ursinae experienced a dramatic proliferation of taxa about 5.34.5 Mya ago, coincident with major environmental changes; with the rst members of the
genus Ursus also appearing around this time.[12] The sloth
bear is a modern survivor of one of the earliest lineages
to diverge during this radiation event (5.3 Mya); it took
on its peculiar morphology, related to its diet of termites
and ants, no later than by the early Pleistocene. By 34
Mya ago, the species Ursus minimus appears in the fossil
record of Europe; apart from its size, it was nearly identical to todays Asiatic black bear. It is likely ancestral
to all bears within Ursinae, perhaps aside from the sloth
bear. Two lineages evolved from U. minimus: the black
bears (including the sun bear, the Asiatic black bear, and
the American black bear); and the brown bears (which includes the polar bear). Modern brown bears evolved from

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U. minimus via Ursus etruscus, which itself is ancestral to
both the extinct Pleistocene cave bear and todays brown
and polar bears. Species of Ursinae have migrated repeatedly into North America from Eurasia as early as 4
Mya during the early Pliocene.[14]
The fossil record of bears is exceptionally good. Direct ancestor-descendent relationships between individual species are often fairly well established, with sucient
intermediate forms known to make the precise cut-o between an ancestral and its daughter species subjective.[15]
Other extinct bear genera include Agriarctos, Indarctos, and Agriotherium (sometimes placed within
hemicyonids).

2.2

Taxonomic revisions of living bear

species

The giant pandas taxonomy (subfamily Ailuropodinae)

has long been debated. Its original classication by
Armand David in 1869 was within the bear genus Ursus, but, in 1870, it was reclassied by Alphonse MilneEdwards to the raccoon family.[16] In recent studies, the
majority of DNA analyses suggest that the giant panda Brown bear (Ursus arctos)
has a much closer relationship to other bears and should
be considered a member of the family Ursidae.[17] Estimates of divergence dates place the giant panda as the
most ancient oshoot among living taxa within Ursidae,
having split from other bears as recently as 11.6 Mya to
as distantly as 22.1 Mya.[12][18] The red panda was included within Ursidae in the past. However, more recent research does not support such a conclusion, and
instead places it in its own family Ailuridae, in superfamily Musteloidea along with Mustelidae, Procyonidae,
and Mephitidae.[19][20][21] Multiple similarities between
the two pandas, including the presence of false thumbs,
are thus thought to represent an example of convergent
evolution for feeding primarily on bamboo.
The mitochondrial DNA of brown bears of Alaskas ABC
Islands is more closely related to polar bears than to
brown bears elsewhere in the world.[22] This is because
of repeated historical interbreeding between polar bears
and brown bears on the islands.[23] Also, the very rare
Tibetan blue bear is a type of brown bear. Koalas are often referred to as bears due to their appearance; however,
they are marsupials, not bears.

Classication

Asian black bear (Ursus thibetanus)

(Extant species in bold, extinct taxa marked with .)

Family Ursidae
Subfamily Ailuropodinae
Ailurarctos

Ailurarctos lufengensis
Ailurarctos yuanmouenensis
Ailuropoda (pandas)
Ailuropoda baconi
Ailuropoda fovealis

CLASSIFICATION

Spectacled bear (Tremarctos ornatus)

Sun bear (Helarctos malayanus)

Indian sloth bear (Melursus ursinus ursinus)

Giant panda (Ailuropoda melanoleuca)

Ailuropoda melanoleuca giant

panda
Ailuropoda
melanoleuca
melanoleuca; giant panda
Ailuropoda melanoleuca qinlingensis; Qinling panda
Ailuropoda microta
Ailuropoda wulingshanensis
Kretzoiarctos
Subfamily Tremarctinae
Plionarctos
Plionarctos edensis

Plionarctos harroldorum
Tremarctos (spectacled bears)
Tremarctos ornatus spectacled
bear
Tremarctos oridanus Florida
spectacled bear
Arctodus
Arctodus simus giant short-faced
bear
Arctodus pristinus
Arctotherium
Arctotherium angustidens
Arctotherium bonariense
Arctotherium brasilense
Arctotherium latidens
Arctotherium tarijense
Arctotherium vetustum
Arctotherium wingei
Subfamily Ursinae
Ursavus

American black bear (Ursus americanus)

Polar bear (Ursus maritimus)

Ursavus brevirhinus
Ursavus depereti
Ursavus elmensis
Ursavus pawniensis
Ursavus primaevus
Ursavus tedfordi
Indarctos
Indarctos anthraciti
Indarctos arctoides
Indarctos atticus
Indarctos nevadensis
Indarctos oregonensis
Syrian brown bears (Ursus arctos syriacus)
Indarctos salmontanus
Indarctos vireti
Helarctos
Indarctos zdanskyi
Helarctos malayanus sun bear
Agriotherium
Helarctos malayanus malayanus
Agriotherium inexpetans
Helarctos malayanus euryspilus;
Agriotherium schneideri
Borneo sun bear
Agriotherium sivalensis
Ursus
Melursus
Ursus rossicus
Melursus ursinus sloth bear
Ursus sackdillingensis
Melursus ursinus inornatus; Sri
Ursus minimus
Lankan sloth bear
Melursus ursinus ursinus; Indian
Ursus thibetanus Asian black
sloth bear
bear

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Ursus thibetanus formosanus; Formosan black bear
Ursus thibetanus gedrosianus
Ursus
thibetanus
japonicus;
Japanese black bear
Ursus thibetanus laniger
Ursus thibetanus mupinensis
Ursus thibetanus thibetanus
Ursus
thibetanus
ussuricus;
Manchurian black bear or Ussuri black bear
Ursus abstrusus
Ursus americanus American
black bear
Ursus americanus altifrontalis,
Olympic black bear
Ursus americanus amblyceps, New
Mexico black bear
Ursus americanus americanus, eastern black bear
Ursus americanus californiensis,
California black bear
Ursus americanus carlottae, Haida
Gwaii black bear or Queen Charlotte black bear
Ursus americanus cinnamomum,
cinnamon bear
Ursus americanus emmonsii, glacier
bear
Ursus americanus eremicus, Mexican black bear
Ursus americanus oridanus,
Florida black bear
Ursus americanus hamiltoni, Newfoundland black bear
Ursus americanus kermodei, Kermode bear or spirit bear
Ursus
americanus
luteolus,
Louisiana black bear
Ursus americanus machetes, West
Mexico black bear
Ursus americanus perniger, Kenai
black bear
Ursus americanus pugnax, Dall
black bear
Ursus americanus vancouveri, Vancouver Island black bear
Ursus etruscus
Ursus arctos brown bear
Ursus arctos arctos; Eurasian brown
bear
Ursus arctos alascensis
Ursus arctos beringianus; Kamchatka brown bear or Far Eastern
brown bear

Ursus arctos californicus; California golden bear

Ursus arctos crowtheri; Atlas bear
Ursus arctos dalli
Ursus arctos gobiensis; Gobi bear
(very rare)
Ursus arctos horribilis; grizzly bear,
North American brown bear, or silvertip bear
Ursus arctos isabellinus; Himalayan
brown bear or Himalayan red bear
Ursus arctos lasiotus; Ussuri brown
bear or black grizzly
Ursus arctos middendor; Kodiak
bear
Ursus arctos nelsoni; Mexican
grizzly bear
Ursus arctos piscator; Bergmans
bear (extinct?)
Ursus arctos pruinosus; Tibetan blue
bear, Tibetan bear, or Himalayan
blue bear
Ursus arctos sitkensis
Ursus arctos syriacus; Syrian
(brown) bear
Ursus maritimus polar bear
Ursus maritimus maritimus
Ursus maritimus tyrannus (possibly a brown bear)
Ursus savini
Ursus deningeri
Ursus spelaeus cave bear
Ursus inopinatus, MacFarlanes
bear (cryptid; possibly a hybrid)
Kolponomos
Kolponomos clallamensis
Kolponomos newportensis
The genera Melursus and Helarctos are sometimes also
included in Ursus. The Asiatic black bear and the polar
bear used to be placed in their own genera, Selenarctos
and Thalarctos; these names have since been reduced in
rank to subgeneric rank.
A number of hybrids have been bred between American
black, brown, and polar bears.

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4.1 Morphology
Bears are generally bulky and robust animals with relatively short legs. They are sexually dimorphic with regard to size, with the males being larger.[24][25] Larger

4.2

Distribution and habitat

Unlike most other Carnivora, bears have plantigrade feet

7
Guinness Book of World Records.[26] The smallest bears
are the sun bears of Asia, which weigh an average of 65
kg (143 lb) for the males and 45 kg (99 lb) for the females,
though the smallest mature females can weigh only 20 kg
(44 lb).[27][28] All medium"-sized bear species (which include the other ve extant species) are around the same
average weight, with males averaging around 100 to 120
kg (220 to 260 lb) and females averaging around 60 to
85 kg (132 to 187 lb), although it is not uncommon for
male American black bears to considerably exceed average weights.[29] Head-and-body length can range from
120 cm (47 in) in sun bears to 300 cm (120 in) in large
polar and brown bears and shoulder height can range from
60 cm (24 in) to over 160 cm (63 in) in the same species,
respectively. The tails of bears are often considered a
vestigial feature and can range from 3 to 22 cm (1.2 to
8.7 in).[28][29]
Unlike most other land carnivorans, bears are plantigrade.
They distribute their weight toward the hind feet, which
makes them look lumbering when they walk. They are
still quite fast, with the brown bear reaching 48 km/h
(30 mph), although they are still slower than felines and
canines. Bears can stand on their hind feet and sit up
straight with remarkable balance. Bears nonretractable
claws are used for digging, climbing, tearing, and catching prey. Their ears are rounded.
Bears have an excellent sense of smell, better than the
dogs (Canidae), or possibly any other mammal. This
sense of smell is used for signalling between bears (either
to warn o rivals or detect mates) and for nding food.
Smell is the principal sense used by bears to nd most of
their food.[27]

4.1.1 Dentition

Despite being quadrupeds, bears can stand and sit similarly to

humans.

species tend to show increased levels of sexual dimorphism in comparison to smaller species,[25] and where
a species varies in size across its distribution, individuals from larger-sized areas tend also to vary more. Bears
include the most massive terrestrial members of the order Carnivora. Some exceptional polar bears and Kodiak
bears (a brown bear subspecies) have been weighed at
1,002 kg (2,209 lb) and 751 kg (1,656 lb).[26] As to
which species is the largest depends on whether the assessment is based on which species has the largest individuals (brown bears) or on the largest average size (polar bears), as some races of brown bears are much smaller
than polar bears. Adult male Kodiak bears average 480 to
533 kg (1,058 to 1,175 lb) compared to an average of 386
to 408 kg (851 to 899 lb) in adult male polar bears, per the

Unlike most other members of the Carnivora, bears have

relatively undeveloped carnassial teeth, and their teeth
are adapted for a diet that includes a signicant amount
of vegetable matter. The canine teeth are large, and the
molar teeth at and crushing. Considerable variation occurs in dental formula even within a given species. This
may indicate bears are still in the process of evolving from
carnivorous to predominantly herbivorous diets. Polar
bears appear to have secondarily re-evolved carnassiallike cheek teeth, as their diets have switched back towards carnivory.[30] The dental formula for living bears
is: 3.1.24.23.1.24.3

4.2 Distribution and habitat

See also: List of carnivorans by population
Bears are primarily found in the Northern Hemisphere,
and with one exception, only in Asia, North America,
and Europe. The single exception is the spectacled bear

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(Tremarctos ornatus); native to South America it inhabits the Andean region. The Atlas bear, a subspecies of
the brown bear, was the only bear native to Africa. It
was distributed in North Africa from Morocco to Libya,
but has been extinct since around the 1870s. The most
widespread species is the brown bear, which occurs from
Western Europe eastwards through Asia to the western
areas of North America. The American black bear is restricted to North America, and the polar bear is restricted
to the Arctic Sea. All the remaining species are Asian.[27]
With the exception of the polar bear, bears are mostly
forest species. Some species, particularly the brown bear,
may inhabit or seasonally use other areas, such as alpine Asian black bear feeding on berries
scrub or tundra.

4.3

Behaviour

Bears are generally diurnal, meaning that they are active

for the most part during the day. The belief that they
are nocturnal apparently comes from the habits of bears
that live near humans, which engage in some nocturnal
activities, such as raiding trash cans or crops while avoiding humans. The sloth bear of Asia is the most nocturnal of the bears, but this varies by individual, and females with cubs are often diurnal to avoid competition
with males and nocturnal predators.[27] Bears are overwhelmingly solitary and are considered to be the most
asocial of all the Carnivora. Liaisons between breeding
bears are brief, and the only times bears are encountered
in small groups are mothers with young or occasional seaBrown bear feeding on infrequent, but predictable, salmon misonal bounties of rich food (such as salmon runs).[27]
grations

4.4

Vocalizations

will climb trees to obtain mast (edible vegetative or reproductive parts, such as acorns); smaller species that are
Bears produce a variety of vocalizations such as:
more able to climb include a greater amount of this in
their diets.[32] Such masts can be very important to the di Moaning, produced mostly as mild warnings to po- ets of these species, and mast failures may result in longtential threats or in fear,
range movements by bears looking for alternative food
[33]
There are two signicant exceptions to this
Barking, produced during times of alarm, excite- sources.
however:
ment or to give away the animals position.
Hung, made during courtship or between mother
and cubs to warn of danger.
Growling, produced as strong warnings to potential
threats or in anger.

The polar bear, which has adopted a diet mainly of

marine mammals to survive in the Arctic.
The giant panda, which has adopted a diet mainly of
bamboo.

Roaring, used much for the same reasons as growls

and also to proclaim territory and for intimidation. Stable isotope analysis of the extinct giant short-faced
Humming, a loud monotonous buzzing sound, pri- bear (Arctodus simus) shows it was also an exclusive meateater, probably a scavenger.[34] The sloth bear, though not
marily employed by cubs.[31]
as specialized as the previous two species, has lost several
front teeth usually seen in bears, and developed a long,
suctioning tongue to feed on the ants, termites, and other
4.5 Diet and interspecic interactions
burrowing insects they favour. At certain times of the
Most bears have diets of more plant than animal matter year, these insects can make up 90% of their diets.[35] All
and are completely opportunistic omnivores. Some bears bears will feed on any food source that becomes available,

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Hibernation

the nature of which varies seasonally. A study of Asiatic

black bears in Taiwan found they would consume large
numbers of acorns when they were most common, and
switch to ungulates at other times of the year.[36]

may not rear young until they are four or even nine years
old. First breeding may be even later in males, where
competition for mates may leave younger males without
access to females.[27]

Regarding warm-blooded animals, bears will typically

take small or young animals, as they are easier to catch.
However, both species of black bears and the brown bear
can sometimes take large prey, such as ungulates.[36][37]
Often, bears will feed on other large animals when they
encounter a carcass, whether or not the carcass is claimed
by, or is the kill of, another predator. This competition is
the main source of interspecies conict. Bears are able to
defend a carcass against some comers. Mother bears also
can usually defend their cubs against other predators.

The bears courtship period is very brief. Bears in northern climates reproduce seasonally, usually after a period of inactivity similar to hibernation, although tropical species breed all year round. Cubs are born toothless, blind, and bald. The cubs of brown bears, usually
born in litters of one to three, will typically stay with the
mother for two full seasons. They feed on their mothers
milk through the duration of their relationship with their
mother, although as the cubs continue to grow, nursing
becomes less frequent and cubs learn to begin hunting
with the mother. They will remain with the mother for
about three years, until she enters the next cycle of estrus
and drives the cubs o. Bears will reach sexual maturity
in ve to seven years. Male bears, especially polar and
brown bears, will kill and sometimes devour cubs born to
another father to induce a female to breed again. Female
bears are often successful in driving o males in protection of their cubs, despite being rather smaller.

The tiger is the only predator known to regularly

prey on adult bears, including fully grown adults of
brown bears, sloth bears, Asiatic black bears, and sun
bears.[38][39][40][41][42][43] When hunting bears, tigers will
position themselves from the leeward side of a rock or
fallen tree, waiting for the bear to pass by. When the bear
passes, the tiger will spring from an overhead position and
grab the bear from under the chin with one forepaw and
the throat with the other. The immobilised bear is then
killed with a bite to the spinal column. After killing a
bear, the tiger will concentrate its feeding on the bears
fat deposits, such as the back, legs and groin.[44][45]
4.7

Hibernation

Further information: American black bear Hibernation

and Grizzly bear Hibernation
Many bears of northern regions hibernate in the
Further information: Brown bear Reproduction,
American black bear Reproduction and development,
Polar bear Reproduction and lifecycle, Grizzly bear
Reproduction, Asian black bear Reproduction and life
cycle, Spectacled bear Reproduction, Sloth bear Reproduction and Giant panda Reproduction
The age at which bears reach sexual maturity is highly

4.6

Breeding

Polar bear mother nursing her cub

American black bears mating

variable, both between and within species. Sexual maturity is dependent on body condition, which is in turn
dependent upon the food supply available to the growing individual. The females of smaller species may have
young in as little as two years, whereas the larger species

winter.[46][47] During hibernation, the bears metabolism

slows down, its body temperature decreases slightly, and
its heart rate slows from a normal value of 55 to just 9
beats per minute.[48] Bears normally do not wake during
their hibernation, and can go the entire period without
eating, drinking, urinating, or defecating. Female bears
give birth during the hibernation period, and are roused
when doing so.[47]

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Relationship with humans

pose is often vastly exaggerated, in part by the human

imagination. However, when a mother feels that her cubs
are threatened, she will behave ferociously. It is recomSee also: Bear danger
Some species, such as the polar bear, American black mended to give all bears a wide berth; because, they are
behaviorally unpredictable.
Where bears raid crops or attack livestock, they may
come into conict with humans.[50][51] These problems
may be the work of only a few bears, but they create a
climate of conict, as farmers and ranchers may perceive
all losses as due to bears and advocate the preventive removal of all bears.[51] Mitigation methods may be used to
reduce bear damage to crops, and reduce local antipathy
towards bears.[50]
Laws have been passed in many areas of the world to protect bears from habitat destruction. Public perception of
bears is often very positive, as people identify with bears
due to their omnivorous diets, ability to stand on two legs,
and symbolic importance,[52] and support for bear protection is widespread, at least in more auent societies.[53]
Bear danger area closure sign of a type used in Denali National In more rural and poorer regions, attitudes may be more
Park, Alaska
shaped by the dangers posed by bears and the economic
costs they cause to farmers and ranchers.[51] Some populated areas with bear populations have also outlawed
the feeding of bears, including allowing them access to
garbage or other food waste. Bears in captivity have been
trained to dance, box, or ride bicycles; however, this use
of the animals became controversial in the late 20th century. Bears were kept for baiting in Europe at least since
the 16th century.

5.1 Bear hunt

Main article: Bear hunting
Some cultures use bears for food and folk medicine.
Their meat is dark and stringy, like a tough cut of beef.
In Cantonese cuisine, bear paws are considered a delicacy. The peoples of China, Japan, and Korea use bears
body parts and secretions (notably their gallbladders and
bile) as part of traditional Chinese medicine. More than
12,000 bile bears are thought to be kept on farms, for their
bile, in China, Vietnam, and South Korea.[54] Bear meat
must be cooked thoroughly, as it can be infected with
Trichinella spiralis, which can cause trichinosis.[55][56][57]

Wojtek the bear with a Polish soldier: during the Battle of Monte
Cassino, Wojtek helped move ammunition.

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bear, grizzly bear, sloth bear, and brown bear, are dangerous to humans, especially in areas where they have
become used to people. All bears are physically powerful and are likely capable of fatally attacking a person,
but they, for the most part, are shy, are easily frightened
and will avoid humans. Injuries caused by bears are rare,
but are often widely reported.[49] The danger that bears

6.1 Names
The female rst name Ursula, originally derived
from a Christian saint's name and common in Englishand German-speaking countries, means little she-bear
(diminutive of Latin ursa). In Switzerland, the male rst
name Urs is especially popular, while the name of the

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canton and city of Bern is derived from Br, German for

bear. The Germanic name Bernard (including Bernhardt
and other forms) means bear-brave, bear-hardy, or
bold bear.[58][59]

man society.

In Scandinavia, the male personal names Bjrn (Sweden,

Iceland) and Bjrn (Norway, Denmark), meaning bear,
are relatively common. In Finland, the male personal
name Otso is an old poetic name for bear, similar to Kontio.

and Ainu cultures, as well (see Iomante). Korean people

in their mythology identify the bear as their ancestor and
symbolic animal. According to the Korean legend, a god
imposed a dicult test on a she-bear; when she passed it,
the god turned her into a woman and married her.

"The Brown Bear of Norway" is a Scottish fairy tale

telling the adventures of a girl who married a prince magically turned into a bear, and who managed to get him
The Italian surname Orsini, the name of a promi- back into a human form by the force of her love and after
nent Medieval Aristocratic family, is ultimately derived many trials and diculties. In the 1970s, this story was
from Latin ursinus (bearlike) and originating as an adapted into the East German fantasy lm The Singing
epithet or sobriquet describing the name-bearers pur- Ringing Tree and broadcast on British television.
ported strength.
Evidence of bear worship has been found in early Chinese

In Russian and other Slavic languages, the word for bear, Legends of saints taming bears are common in the Alpine
medved (), and variants or derivatives, such as zone. In the arms of the bishopric of Freising, the bear
Medvedev, are common surnames.
is the dangerous totem animal tamed by St. Corbinian
and made to carry his civilised baggage over the mounThe Irish family name McMahon means Son of Bear
tains. A bear also features prominently in the legend of
in Irish.
St. Romedius, who is also said to have tamed one of these
In East European Jewish communities, the name Ber animals and had the same bear carry him from his her()Yiddish cognate of Bearhas been attested as mitage in the mountains to the city of Trento.
a common male rst name, at least since the 18th century,
and was, among others, the name of several prominent Similar stories are told of Saint Gall and Saint Columrabbis. The Yiddish Ber is still in use among Orthodox banus.
Jewish communities in Israel, the US, and other coun- This recurrent motif was used by the Church as a symbol
tries. With the transition from Yiddish to Hebrew under of the victory of Christianity over paganism.[60] In the
the inuence of Zionism, the Hebrew word for bear, Norse settlements of northern England during the 10th
dov (), was taken up in contemporary Israel and is at century, a type of hogback grave cover of a long narrow
present among the commonly used male rst names in block of stone, with a shaped apex like the roof beam of a
long house, is carved with a muzzled, thus Christianised,
that country.
bear clasping each gable end. Though the best collec"Ten Bears" (Paruasemana) was the name of a wellthese is in the church at Brompton, North Yorkknown 19th-century chieftain among the Comanche. tion of
shire,[61] their distribution ranges across northern EngAlso among other Native American tribes, bear-related
land and southern Scotland, with a scattered few in the
names are attested.
north Midlands and single survivals in Wales, Cornwall,
and Ireland; a late group is found in the Orkney Islands.
Bears are a popular feature of many childrens stories, including Goldilocks and "The Story of the Three Bears",
For bears in mythology, see Jean de l'Ours, Arcturus, the Berenstain Bears, and Winnie the Pooh.
Ursa Major, Berserker, and Kalevala.
En uheldig bjrnejakt (An Unfortunate Bear Hunt)
by Theodor Kittelsen.
There is evidence of prehistoric bear worship. Anthropologists such as Joseph Campbell have regarded this as
Onikuma from Ehon Hyaku Monogatari
a common feature in most of the shing and hunting According to his hagiography, a bear killed Saint
tribes. The prehistoric Finns, along with most Siberian
Corbinian's pack horse on the way to Rome, so the
peoples, considered the bear as the spirit of ones foresaint commanded it to carry his load. Once he arfathers. This is why the bear (karhu) was a greatly rerived in Rome, however, he let the bear go.
spected animal, with several euphemistic names (such as
otso, mesikmmen, and kontio). The bear is the national
The saddled bear of St. Corbinian" the emblem
animal of Finland.
of Freising, here incorporated in the arms of Pope
Benedict XVI
This kind of attitude is reected in the traditional Russian
fairy tale "Morozko", whose arrogant protagonist Ivan
Coat of Arms of the Abbey of Saint Gall
tries to kill a mother bear and her cubsand is punished
The Three Bears, Arthur Rackham's illustration to
and humbled by having his own head turned magically
English Fairy Tales, by
into a bears head and being subsequently shunned by hu-

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6.3

6 CULTURE

Symbolic use

For more details on this topic, see Bear in heraldry.

The Russian bear is a common national personication

Misha, the Russian Bear mascot of the 1980 Moscow Olympic

Games

The British Lion, the Persian Cat and the Russian Bear (see The
Great Game)

(Bayern Munich, Chicago Bears, California Golden

Bears, UCLA Bruins, Boston Bruins); and a bear cub
called Misha was mascot of the 1980 Summer Olympics
in Moscow, Soviet Union.

Smokey Bear has become a part of American culture

for Russia (as well as the Soviet Union). The brown bear since his introduction in 1944. Known to almost all
is also Finland's national animal.
Americans, he and his message, Only you can prevent forest res (updated in 2001 to Only you can
prevent wildres), have been a symbol of preserving
woodlands.[64] Smokey wears a hat similar to one worn
by U.S. Forest Service rangers; state police ocers in
some states wear a similar style, giving rise to the CB
slang bear or Smokey for the highway patrol.
The name Beowulf has been hypothesized to mean beewolf, a kenning for bear.[65]

6.4 Figures of speech

The ag of California

In the United States, the black bear is the state animal of

Louisiana, New Mexico, and West Virginia; the grizzly
bear is the state animal of both Montana and California.
Bears also appear in the state seals of California and
Missouri.
In the UK, the bear and sta has long featured on the
heraldic arms of Warwickshire county.[62]

The physical attributes and behaviours of bears are commonly used in gures of speech in English.
In the stock market, a bear market is a period of
declining prices. Pessimistic forecasting or negative
activity is said to be bearish (due to the stereotypical
posture of bears looking downwards), and one who
expresses bearish sentiment is a bear. Its opposite is
a bull market, and bullish sentiment from bulls.

Bears appear in the canting arms of Bern and Berlin.

Bear symbols are used extensively in Berlin street
decorations.[63]

In gay slang, the term "bear" refers to male individuals who possess physical attributes much like a bear,
such as a heavy build, abundant body hair, and commonly facial hair.

Also, bear, "bruin", or specic types of bears are popular nicknames or mascots, for example, for sports teams

A bear hug is typically a tight hug that involves wrapping ones arms around another person, often leav-

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ing that persons arms immobile.
Bear tracking in the old Western states of the U.S.
and, to this day, in the former Dakota Territory, the
expression you ain't just a bear trackin'" is used to
mean you ain't lying or thats for sure. This expression evolved as an outgrowth of the experience
pioneer hunters and mountainmen had when tracking bear. Bears often lay down false tracks and are
notorious for doubling back on anything tracking
them. If you are not following bear tracks, you are
not following false trails or leads in your thoughts,
words or deeds.
In Korean culture, a person is referred to as being
like a bear when they are stubborn or not sensitive to what is happening around their surroundings.
Used as a phrase to call a person stubborn bear.
The Bible compares King David's bitter warriors,
who ght with such fury that they could overcome
many times their number of opponents, with a
bear robbed of her whelps in the eld (2 Samuel
17:8 s:Bible (King James)/2 Samuel#Chapter 17).
The phrase a bereaved bear () , derived
from this Biblical source, is still used in the literary
Hebrew of contemporary Israel.

6.5

Teddy bears

North American black bear: Black Bear Conservation Coalition.

Polar bear: Polar Bears International.
Sun bear: Bornean Sun Bear Conservation Centre.
Sloth bear: Wildlife SOS.
Andean bear: Andean Bear Conservation Project.
Giant panda: Chengdu Research Base of Giant
Panda Breeding.

8 See also
List of fatal bear attacks in North America
List of ctional bears
List of individual bears
Ursa Minor
Ursari

9 References

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Further reading

Bears of the World, Terry Domico, photographs by

Terry Domico and Mark Newman, Facts on File,
Inc., 1988, hardcover, ISBN 978-0-8160-1536-8.
The Bear by William Faulkner.
Brunner, Bernd: Bears: A Brief History. New Haven
and London: Yale University Press, 2007.

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External links

The Bears Project Information, reports and images

of European brown bears and other living species
Western Wildlife Outreach Information on the history, biology, and conservation of North American
Grizzly Bears and Black Bears
The Bear Book and Curriculum Guide a compilation of stories about all eight species of bears worldwide, including STEM lessons rooted in bear research, ecology, and conservation

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