Main Menu Black Bear Gizzly Bear Polar Bear General Characteristics Bears are intelligent, curious, and have excellent memories, especially about food sources. Bears use their acute sense of smell for information about the world around them. Cantrary to old tales, bears' eyesight is good.
Bears also have good color vision.
Like dogs, bears hear high pitches. Their hearing is excellent , though less relied upon thean their sense of smell. Standing up allows a bear to get more information from its senses of smell, sight, and hearing. Bears are omnivores. Toward fall bears will geed on roots and dense groups of months in rocky high-elevation areas.