What does the bear eat?
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Despite the fact that traditionally bears includeto predators, there is not so much meat in their diet as in the rest of the animals of this detachment. Basically, the bearish "menu" consists of plant food. Who from this order group is "predatory" most predisposed to meat, and whether the bear's ration varies depending on the season of the year?
The basis of the bearish "menu"
The most skilled hunter of all representativesBearish species is a polar bear. In the Arctic there is not much vegetation, so white bears often hunt seals. All other bears prefer to eat nuts, berries, mushrooms, tubers and acorns. And, of course, they love honey very much. Also, bears eagerly eat various small mammals. However, if there is a chance to pick up a sheep or a wild boar - the club-footed are unlikely to give up such a chance.
Most bears are looking for edibles during the day, at the same timethey live and eat. In cold regions in the autumn, bears are actively stocked with fat before hibernation (of course, this does not apply to a polar bear). For a few months, the bear falls asleep, but on a warm day, he can wake up and leave the den by searching for something to eat.
For each season of the menu
Depending on the season, the bears' rationchanges. Awake from the winter hibernation, in the spring they begin to eat aspen shoots, ants, bird eggs, small animals, periodically hunt for moose.
In the middle of summer, bears begin to eatvarious berries, and in Siberia - pine nuts. In southern regions, they are filled with acorns, chestnuts and hazel. If the year turned out to be lean and there is no favorite bear food in the forest, the beast can go out to fields planted with corn or oats. In some cases, bears attack and domestic animals.
Food - for the accumulation of fat
As you already knew, bears are omnivorous mammals. And the most important thing for them is to get a large amount of food, which then turns into fat, which is necessary for the bear hibernation.
Interesting figures: in order to save fifty kilos of fat, a bear needs to eat about seven hundred kilos of berry or five hundred kilograms of nuts.
Interesting information about the bear diet (for example, why polar bears do not eat penguins), you can find in the article What the Bears Eat.
