### animal | vertebrate | mammal | bear:

Grizzly bear
* Most grizzly bears become predators
  - consume red foliage
* Most grizzly bears eat berries
  - buffalo berries
  - fish
  - small fish
  - go into hibernation
  - have senses
* Most grizzly bears prefer different habitats
  - spend their time alone except when breeding or raising cubs
* Some grizzly bears eat leaves.
* are a North American sub-species of brown bear which includes the Alaska kodiak bears
  - type of large brown bear found in the interior of North America
  - actually brown bears
  - adapted for more open country and have longer claws for digging
  - an umbrella species that require large unroaded wilderness habitat
  - closely related to the Alaska brown bears
  - dangerous
  - extremely difficult to count under the best of circumstances
  - large and powerful
  - majestic symbols of the wild
  - mammals
  - more dangerous than wolves
  - native to Maine
  - normally solitary animals
  - numerous and on the increase
  - often victims of human hunting
  - omnivores, and their diet can vary widely
  - one of the slowest reproducing land mammals
  - opportunistic omnivores
  - rare in Teton Park, but black bears are frequently encountered
  - solitary and tend to be bad tempered
* are the masters of Alaska's wilderness
  - most feared but polar bears are actually the most dangerous
  - threatened by habitat loss due to logging, development, and mining
* can be brown, blond, grey, reddish or sliver tipped
  - smell Fear from two miles away
* carry a certain reputation for being dangerous, menacing animals.
* consume foliage
* dig up most of their food so they have long claws.
  - fish, berries, grasses, leaves and root
  - some different things
  - wolves carcasses
* feed on bison carcasses and elk calves, especially in the spring.
* have a better sense of smell than a hound dog and can detect food from miles away
  - distinctive shoulder hump
  - multitude of strengths
  - very keen sense of smell
  - an imposing physical presence
  - heavy stout bodies with strong muscular legs
  - one of the lowest reproductive rates of all terrestrial mammals in North America
  - smaller, more rounded ears
  - the lowest reproductive rate of any land mammal on the North American continent
* have their cubs inside of their dens during hibernation
  - own way of control body temperature
* inhabit Alaska, western Canada, and parts of the northwestern United States.
* inhabit the greater Yellowstone ecosystem
  - park
* know no boundaries.
* learn foraging techniques from their mother.
* live mainly on the open tundra.
* play an important role in forest ecosystems as seed dispersers and nutrient providers.
* prey heavily on calves in the spring in the first month of the lives of calves.
* range over the entire park
  - the open tundra and Dall sheep thrive in the foothills
* require a large area for movement and food searches
  - areas where they can forage and breed without encountering people
* reside predominantly in the Western United States.
* spend the spring and summer months looking for food.
* stands in the Bitterroot Mountains.
* tend to avoid areas that contain more than one mile of road in one square mile.
* use burned areas very well
  - dense forests for cover and open areas for gathering berries

Habituated bear
* are unlikely to survive long enough to reproduce.
* live according to a human cycle.
* lose their natural fear of people.
* respond differently to sprays than wild attacking bears.

Male bear
* Most male bears reach sexual maturity at the same time as their female counterparts.
* are called boars, females are sows, and youngsters are cubs.
* fight with other male bears for seals.
* have a baculum, or penis bone, like other bears and carnivores.
* keep large territories that overlap the smaller ranges of several females.
* take five or six years to mature.
* tend to roam much more than the females.