The young have a white collar around their neck, sometimes the adults also still have it. Bears walk like humans do on their soles. It has dull teeth as all these who eat both plants and animals. The Brown Bear is a common animal in Estonia and it has become more numerous in the current century. There are approximately 500 of them here.
Bears prefer large forests with windblown logs and mires.
They hunt at dusk and at night. In the day-time they usually sleep in high grass or any other place where they will not be disturbed. Therefore we hardly ever see them in nature. In addition to that bears tend to hide themselves when there are humans around. The Brown Bear sleeps in winter.