This page for young readers has more facts about bears. Few people know this information. These amazing facts are brought to you by The Cub Den and THE BEAR DEN . Koala bears from Australia are not real bears. They belong to a group of animals called marsupials.
Marsupials have a pouch where they carry their young.
Kangaroos are also marsupials. For a long time, scientists believed that giant panda bears from China were more like raccoons than bears. Today, we know that giant pandas are really bears. Only brown bears, polar bears and American black bears live in the United States and Canada. In Canada, only the province of Prince Edward Island has no American black bears.