Canadian Bears

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Canadian Bears
By Andrew Flagg
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The North American Black Bear These bears are
jet black and have a white patch on their
chest. They spend most of their time eating food
before hibernating. This is what they eat
bugs, fish, moss, mud, grass, berries and
honey. Black bears live in trees, caves and
under big rocks.
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The Grizzly Bear Grizzlies have longer front
claws and are larger than black bears. The
large male grizzly weigh from about 250 to 400
kg! The female weighs from about 150 to 200 kg.
Grizzlies eat fish, berries, moss, bugs, grass
and honey. These bears live in caves.
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Polar Bears Polar Bears have big bodies and long
necks. The males average length is 7 to 8 feet
long! These bear dig dens in the snow drifts.
They also live in ice caves. Baby Polar Bears
weigh about 1 pound at birth. Adult Polar
Bears eat seals and Arctic Hares.
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Research Sources Hinterland Whos Who
www.hww.ca The Canadian Encyclopedia
www.thecanadianencyclopedia.com The World
Book PhotosTitle Image from Art.com
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an_Bears.htm Grizzly photo from Nature Works
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ptv.org/natureworks/grizzly.htm Polar Bear
photo from Painetworks.com http//www.painetwork
s.com/photos/hd/hd1473.JPG Black Bear photo
from Black Pine Animal Park www.blackpineanimalp
ark.com/Animals/bears.htm Sound National
Geographic www3.nationalgeographic.com/animals/au
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