Survival Skills of Bears

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Bears of the World by Paul Ward and Suzanne Kynaston.

The relative importance of meat, however, should not be underestimated; in terms of energy, meat has a greater yield on a weight for weight basis than plants. In Tibet, brown bears are more actively predacious than in other areas and meat forms a greater proportion of the diet. In contrast, Japanese brown bears eat almost no meat; one study showed that 98.7% of the diet was made up of vegetative material, particularly fruits, berries, acorns and hogs funnel. The remaining 1.3% comprised flying insects that aggregate under rocks around lake shores and an occasional sample of local livestock. Brown bears living along coastlines have access to the stranded bodies of sea mammals, invertebrates ( e.g. molluscs and crabs ), and vegetation ( e.g. seaweed ). Reply