10 Facts About Grizzly Bears

1. Horrible Grizzly
Ursus arctos horribilis – The name “grizzly” named after the English word “grizzled” meaning grayish, and refers to his gray hairs on the fur. However, American naturalist George Ord mistakenly understood the word as “grisly” (horrible), and is the Latin name included the word horribilis.

2. Grizzly bear eat American black bear
Although the bear belongs to the order of the beast, and has the same system as well as all members of the order, it is omnivores. Its prey are large mammals if they are available, such as moose, wapiti, sheep, American bison, reindeer and even the American black bear. It feeds on the fish, such as salmon, trout and perch. Also known to eat carrion.

3. 3.5 inches claws
The claws are brown and are used for excavation of food, each of which has a length of about 3.5 inches (9 centimeters).

4. Largest ever recorded grizzly
The largest ever recorded grizzly bear was long 12’5″ (360 centimeters) and weighed 1300lb (630 kilos).

5. Diet
Although diet of grizzly bears quite dependent on regional and climate change, plants account for about 80-90% of its diet. A large part consists of a variety of berries, including blueberries, blackberries, cranberries and others. Insects, such as ladybugs, ants and bees are easily accessible … When food is plentiful, they kept in groups.

6. Grolar hybrids – grizzly and polar bear
In the Arctic Circle can be found hybrids of grizzly and polar bears, which were first discovered in 2006 and named “grolar”. It has a head and paws of a grizzly, while the body of a polar bear. By creating a hybrid species is due to the melting of ice in Antarctica, which is why is a wider range of movement of the polar bear and thus come into contact with grizzlies.

7. Grizzly bears kills people
In the last 5 years grizzlies have killed as many as 13 people, and usually by a mother bear when they accidentally got between her and her cubs.

8. Faster than man
Hungry bear can run at a speed of 30-37 miles per hour (50-60 kilometers per hour), and the largest ever measured speed of man was 27.8 miles per hour (44.7 kilometers per hour).

9. Older bears sleep longer
Older and more experienced bears have better lair, enter prepared into hibernation and the longest remain in it (with the exception of gravid females, of course), in fact older bears the first fall asleep and wake up the last.

10. Fake attack
When the bear wants to prove that it is stronger, bigger, and when they want to chase the man or the other bear, then taking the so-called fake attack. Fake attack recognize the fact that the bear jumped, made a couple of quick, large, running footsteps to the opponent (the bear or rarely a man), and after opponent turned and began to recede, bear stop its attack.