The bear is about the shamanic journey. The bear is solitary especially the males. Bears go deep into nature. There is the rhythm of nature in each animal. Each animal has it own particular rhythm.
Bears are about eating salmon, mating, making babies, they are about intensity.
The turtle is about being old, about conservative habits, about protection, about laying in the sun to keep warm, about being an ancient part of the living earth. The snake is about worship, about goddesses, about kundalini rising. The nature of the animals is what they really are. The truth about birds of prey is that they take you. You are taken into your dreams, into your fear of the darkness, into a world where things are hunted.