The black bear walks through the woods looking for food. Bears eat ants, insects, salmon or trout, bark, plants, roots and berries. Seventy-five percent of their diet is vegetables including berries, flowers, grass, roots, and nuts. Fifteen percent of their diet is decaying animals or fish. Another ten percent of their diet is insects an small mammals.
Black bears love sweet ripe corn and honey.
During the winter months bears heart rate slows so they can hibernate. Bears will wake up is the weather is warn or they are disturbed. The black bear has few enemies. They fear the grizzly bear the most. A porcupine attacks Brian inside his shelter.