Grizzly Bear
· Grizzly Bear Habitat
· Grizzly Bear Food
· Grizzly Bear Behaviour
· Conservation status
· Grizzly Bear Attacks
· Grizzly Bears In Alaska

Grizzly Bears Behaviour

Grizzly Bear Behaviour – Feeding

The grizzly bear is more or less a feeding machine and it knows how to get dinner. Only by using its nose the grizzly bear is capable of detecting foodstuffs several miles away. Grizzly bears tend to eat vegetation but are capable of downing prey if it needs to. Usually it is small mammals such as rodents that fall prey to the grizzly bear but even deer and moose are on the menu if needed. The grizzly bear can kill a large animal with one single blow and therefore it prefers to ambush its prey rather than stalking it. The grizzly bear is also a great fisher and will either scoop up the fish using its paws or smash the fish onto the river floor.

Grizzly Bear Behaviour – Mating

The grizzly bears will mate during the salmon spawn since they all will gather on the riverbanks anyway. Although the actually mating takes place during the summer the female grizzly bear will not become pregnant until the late fall and only if the female is fat enough to survive hibernation when pregnant, otherwise the pregnancy is terminated. The female grizzly bear is able to give birth every other year and there are often one to four cubs in one birth. The cubs will stay with its mother for one and a half year before they are capable of taking care of themselves, their mother will have taught them everything she knows.

Grizzly Bear Behaviour – Hibernating

Most bears will hibernate sometime during the year but the grizzly bear is probably one of the bears that hibernate the longest. Because of the geographical situation of the grizzly bears habitat the time when it is warm and food is available is pretty short and the rest of the time the grizzly bear will spend sleeping in its den. The dens are generally natural caves, crevices or even hollows under logs and rocks. Although one might think that the bear sleeps very deep it is actually quite easily disturbed so it is best never to disturb a sleeping grizzly bear.