The bears' food in zoos, national parks and reserves is monitored by rangers. They provide animals with fish, meat, stems, fruits and plant roots. In the wild, the bear provides its own food.
Omnivorous Beast Menu
Despite the fact that the bear is by nature a predator, he prefers to eat plant food. Surprisingly, but the brown bear loves berries, stems and leaves of shrubs, as well as honey. Craving for honey makes the animal take risks and climb into the hives to wild bees, from where they often have to take their paws.
Often, in search of tasty food, the animal climbs to feeding grounds and cereal fields, in particular, to crops of oats and corn.
Taiga and swampy places are rich in a variety of berries that the brown bear loves so much. He also does not refuse herbs. Moreover, the clubfoot eats only a certain part of the plants. Teddy bear most often feasts on their leaves, stems, fruits or roots. A special time for the brown bear is spring, when it can accumulate body weight for days on its way after a long hibernation by eating vegetation.
However, plant foods are only half of the brown bear's menu. The rest of it is animal food. After coming out of hibernation, the bear hunts for rodents, eats all kinds of insects and their larvae. For the sake of this, the animal will not even be too lazy to dig a hole in order to pull mice, moles, chipmunks and marmots out of the ground. Bears are reputed to be the destroyers of anthills and apiaries.
Hunting and fishing
Getting out to water bodies, brown bears become real fishermen. Especially during the spawning season, when the fish spawn, the brown predator will not miss the moment for such a delicacy. Most of all, the animal appreciates trout and salmon.
If artiodactyls graze nearby, the clubfoot does not hesitate to attack moose, wild boars or deer. Hunger drives the brown bear out of the forest to people. There he often attacks livestock: horses, cows and sheep. There are times when the bear attacks its relatives of a different breed, as well as wolves and tigers.
Stories about a bear who loves honey very much are by no means fiction. Bears are really big with a sweet tooth, ready to climb trees in search of honey from wild bees.
If the beast is really hungry, then it can attack its own cub. Therefore, feeling threatened, the bear with the babies seeks to go to a safe distance until the offspring grows up. A well-fed bear does not pose a great threat even to a person, however, you should not risk it and seek a meeting with him.
