BROWN BEAR

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AMAZING FACTS ABOUT BROWN BEAR

COMMON NAME: BROWN BEAR
SCIENTIFIC NAME: URSUS ARCTORS
TYPE: MAMMALS
DIET: OMNIVORES
AVERAGE LIFE SPAIN IN THE WILD: 25 YEAR
SIZE: 5 TO 8 FEET
WEIGHT: 700 POUNDS

  • Brown bear lives in the forests and mountains of northern North America, Europe, and Asia. It is the most widely distributed bear in the world.
  • The world's largest brown bears are found in coastal British Columbia and Alaska, and on islands such as Kodiak.
  • Bear have a particularly good nose: their sense of smell enables them to sniff food at a distance of several kilometers.
  • Brown bear in the wild are mainly active at dusk and at night.
  • The young and female brown bears are good climbers compared to fully grown male brown bears. Full grown adult brown bears are not good at climbing trees because of their size and weight. Apart from their size and weight, fully grown adult brown bears have claws that are long and sharp. These makes it hard for them to climbs. They also have a fixed wrist joints, with paws that turn inwards. All these body structures weigh against the ability to climb. However, grizzly bear cubs are excellent climbers and there are reports of their adult seen at heights of up to 18 feet.
  • Brown bears are proficient swimmers and can swim long distances, even in cold water They often use their  swimming skills to catch fish, particularly salmon, during spawning runs.


  • Brown bears are known for their long hibernation periods, which can up last up to several months, depending on the climates and food availability. During hibernation, their metabolic rate drops significantly, and they don't eat, drink, urinate or defecate.
  • Brown bears play a vital role in their ecosystem as species. They help regulate prey population and distribute nutrients through their activity, including their role in salmon distribution in coastal areas.
  • Brown bears mate from mid-may to early July with the serially monogamous creatures showing no sexual interest in each other outside of the periods.
  • Brown bear are not social but solitary animals, except when they come together as a family group of mothers and cubs or when adult males and females want to mate.
  • The adult males and females bears are solitary animals when they do not have cubs.


  • The females become pregnant during their winter dormancy and give birth 8 weeks later while they are still hibernating. A litter usually consists of between 1 and 3 cubs with more than 4 being pretty uncommon.


  • As the cubs are fully dependent on their mother for the first couple of years females generally only breed again once their independent offspring have headed off on their own.
  • Newborn bears are very vulnerable being blind, hairless and toothless, too. While they only weigh around 350-510 grams at birth, the quickly grow and gain weight over the first six months of their life.
  • Cubs usually continue feeding on their mother's milk until spring or early summer. After this, they also forage for and eat other food sources such as berries, grasses and bulbs.
  • Baby bears normally remain with their mothers until the age of 3 or 4 with some becoming independent at just 1.5 years of age.
  •  Brown bears can grow to a colossal size with males weighing up to 350 kilograms and females 200 kilograms. This varies widely though depending on their subspecies and population and the season of the year.

ANDREAS-  One of the last dancing bears in Greece, Andreas was rescued and placed in a sanctuary in 1993. He passed away in 2013 at the age of 50 and still holds the Guinness World record for the oldest brown bear in captivity.

GINGER- The oldest known brown bear to have lived in a north American zoo, Ginger reached the ripe old age of 40. The ginormous grizzly far exceeded the average life expectancy of females in captivity, bringing great joy to everyone who saw her at Columbus zoo.

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