Russian Brown Bears

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This is a nice video (June 2019), Russia) with two bears. I´m not sure if this is female bear and cub or are here two cubs, one older and one younger, if so then this older one will be soon kicked out by mother bear. Description of video tells about cubs, not about mother and cub.

It would be interesting to know what this man is telling from 2:20 forward. There are some obvious bear tracks and some trees look to be broken by a bear. maybe some Russian member could tell a what this man is telling, one broken tree looked to be quite thick. Also if checking what that headline of the video really said, translator was in obvious trouble with it.

Here video and below translated headline and description, headline seemed to be problematic for translator in the middle part and also in the end. 

A bear in the deep taiga. The owner of the taiga, brown bears in taiga forest.

In the taiga, we managed to film bears. Usually, a bear smelling a human smell behaves cautiously. But the rains passed, the human footprint was washed away. The wind was blowing in the opposite direction and the cubs, suspecting nothing, behaved at ease. I had to warn with a voice that there was a man. The cubs became alert and snorted into the taiga. Their color hid them well. A bear was nearby. The meeting could have been dramatic, but nothing happened. Thanks to the taiga and the bears.


Brown bear, or common bear (lat. Ursus arctos) - predatory mammal of the bear family; one of the largest land predators.
The brown bear is a forest animal. Its usual habitats in Russia are continuous forest tracts with windbreaks and burned-out areas with dense growth of deciduous trees, bushes and grasses; can enter both the tundra and high-mountain forests. In Europe, he prefers mountain forests; in North America, it is more common in open areas - in the tundra, in alpine meadows and on the coast.

The bear sometimes keeps solitary, the female - with cubs of different ages. Males and females are territorial, an individual plot occupies on average from 73 to 414 km², and in males it is about 7 times larger than in females. The boundaries of the site are marked with scent marks and “scuffs” - scratches on noticeable trees. Sometimes makes seasonal migrations; So in the mountains, the brown bear, starting in spring, feeds in the valleys, where the snow used to melt, then goes to the loaches (alpine meadows), then gradually descends into the forest belt, where berries and nuts ripen.

The brown bear is omnivorous, but its diet is 3/4 vegetable: berries, acorns, nuts, roots, tubers and stems of herbs. In lean years for berries, bears visit oat crops in the northern regions, and corn crops in the southern regions; in the Far East in autumn they feed in cedar forests. His diet also includes insects (ants, butterflies), worms, lizards, frogs, rodents (mice, marmots, ground squirrels, chipmunks) and fish. In summer, insects and their larvae sometimes make up 1/3 of a bear's diet. Although predation is not an exemplary strategy for brown bears, they also prey on ungulates - roe deer, fallow deer, elk, deer, caribou (most often this happens in early spring, after the bear comes out of hibernation, when there is still very little plant food).

 American brown bears, Grizzly bears sometimes attack wolves and black bears, and in the Far East brown bears in some cases can hunt Himalayan bears and tigers.The brown bear loves honey (hence the name), eats carrion, and also, taking advantage of the size advantage, takes prey from other predators - wolves, cougars and tigers. Fish during spawning (anadromous salmon) serve as a seasonal food object, in early spring - rhizomes, in grizzlies living in the vicinity of the Rocky Mountains, in the summer - butterflies that hide in the mountains among the stones from the summer heat. When the fish just begins to arrive for spawning, the bears eat the whole caught fish, then they begin to eat only the fattest parts - the skin, head, caviar and milk.

The brown bear is active throughout the day, but more often in the mornings and evenings

The seasonal cycle of life is pronounced. By winter, the bear fattens up subcutaneous fat (up to 180 kg) and from autumn it lays in its den. The dens are located in a dry place, in most cases in pits under the protection of a windbreak or under upturned tree roots. Less commonly, bears dig shelter in the ground or occupy caves and rock crevices. Bears have favorite wintering places, where they gather from year to year from the whole neighborhood. In different regions, winter sleep lasts from 75 to 195 days. Depending on climatic and other conditions, bears stay in dens from October - November to March - April, that is, for 5-6 months. Bears with cubs live in dens for the longest time, least of all -. During the wintering period, the bear loses up to 80 kg of fat.

Contrary to popular belief, brown bear's winter sleep is shallow; his body temperature during sleep fluctuates between 29 and 34 degrees. In case of danger, the animal wakes up and leaves the den, going in search of a new one. Sometimes it happens that the bear does not have time to fatten up properly in autumn, therefore, in the middle of winter, it also wakes up (and sometimes does not lie in its den at all) and begins to wander in search of food; such bears are called cranks. Cranks are very dangerous, hunger makes them merciless predators - they even attack humans. These bears have very little chance of surviving until spring.

Despite its awkward appearance, the brown bear can sometimes run fast - at a speed of up to 50 km / h, swims excellently and climbs trees well when young (when old it does it reluctantly). With one blow of its paw, a hardened bear can break the back of a wild boar, deer or elk. Reply