Bears in the zoo. Brown bear. Winter hibernation bear

Bear is the largest predator on Earth. This animal refers to the class of mammals, the detachment of the predatory, family of bearish, the genus of bears ( Ursus.). The bear appeared on the planet about 6 million years ago and was always a symbol of power and power.

Bear - Description, Characteristic, Building. What does the Bear look like?

Depending on the species affiliation, the predator body length can vary from 1.2 to 3 meters, and the weight of the bear varies from 40 kg to tons. The body of these animals is large, choreistic, with a thick, short neck and a big head. Powerful jaws make it easy to turn out both plant and meat food. The limbs are rather short and slightly curved. Therefore, the bear walks, swaying from side to the side, and relies on the entire foot. The speed of the bear at the moments of danger can reach 50 km / h. With the help of large and sharp claws, these animals mined food from under the ground, breaking the prey and boil the trees. Many views of the bears swim well. The White Bear has a special membrane between your fingers. The lifespan of the bear can reach 45 years.

Bears do not differ acute vision and well-developed hearing. This is compensated by a great sense of smell. Sometimes animals get up on the hind legs so that with the face of the surrounding environment.

Thick medveda woolThe covering body has a different color: from reddish brown to black, white in polar bears or black and white in Panda. Types with dark fur to the old age are gray and become gray.

Does the bear have a tail?

Yes, but only a big panda is the owner of a noticeable tail. Other species have a short and practically indistinguishable in fur.

Views of bears, titles and photos

In the family of bearish zoologists, 8 types of bears are distinguished, which are divided into many different subspecies:

• Brown bear (ordinary bear) (Ursus Arctos.)

The appearance of the predator of this species is typical for all representatives of a bear family: a powerful, pretty high to the withers torso, a massive head with enough small ears and eyes, a short, slightly noticeable tail, and large paws with very powerful claws. The torso of the brown bear is covered with thick wool with a brownish, dark gray, reddish color, which varies from the habitat of the "Kosolapoy". Clean-kids often have large bright fastening on the chest or in the neck area, however, with age, these marks disappear.

The range of the propagation of the brown bear is wide: it is found in the Alps mountain systems and on the Peninsula, distributed in Finland and Carpathians, comfortably feels in Scandinavia, Asia, China, in the North-West of the United States and in Russian forests.

• Polar (White) Bear (Ursus Maritimus.)

It is the largest representative of the family: the length of his body often reaches 3 meters, and the mass may exceed one ton. The polar bear has a long neck and slightly the head of the head - it distinguishes him from his fellow other types. The color of the fur of a bear - from the boiled-white to a little yellowish, the fur inside the hollow, so the bear gives the "fur" of the bear excellent thermal insulation properties. The soles of the paws are densely "beaten" with bunches of coarse wool, which allows the white bear easily move around the ice cover without slipping. Between the fingers, the paws have a membrane, facilitating the swimming process. The habitat is a view of the bears - the indoor regions of the northern hemisphere.

• Baribal (Black Bear) (Ursus Americanus.)

The bear is a little similar to the brown relative, but differs from him smaller sizes and iscin-black fur. The length of the adult Baribala does not exceed two meters, and the bear females are even smaller - their torso usually has a length of 1.5 meters. Pointed muzzle, long paws, ending with enough short feet, - this is what remarks this representative Bears. By the way, black Baribals may become only by the third year of life, at birth recepting a gray or brownish color. The habitat of a black bear is extensive: from Alaska expanses to Canada's territories and hot mexico.

• Malay Bear (Biruang) (Helarctos Malayanus.)

The most "miniature" form among its bear families: its length does not exceed 1.3-1.5 meters, and the height in the withers slightly more than half a meter. This view of the bears has a centerous physique, a short, rather wide face with small round ears. The paws of the Malay Bear are high, while a little disproportionately look large, long feet with huge claws. The body is covered with a short and very hard black and brown fur, the animal's chest "decorates" white-red spot. The Malay Bear lives in the southern regions of China, in Thailand and Indonesia.

• Belogruda (Himalayan) bear (Ursus Thibetanus.)

The slender body of the Himalayan Bear is not too large - this representative of the family is twice the smallest of the brown formation: the male has a length of 1.5-1.7 meters, while the height in the withers is only 75-80 cm, females - even smaller. The bear torso, covered with brilliant and silky wool of dark brown or black, crowned head with a sturdy muzzle and a large round ears. The obligatory "attribute" of the appearance of the Himalayan Bear is a spectacular white or yellowish color spot on the chest. This view of the bears lives in Iran and Afghanistan, meets in the mountainous areas of Himalayas, in the territory of Korea, Vietnam, China and Japan, freely feels in the expanses Khabarovsk Region And in the south of Yakutia.

• Point bear (Tremarctos Ornatus.)

Medium-sized predator - length 1.5-1.8 meters, height in withers from 70 to 80 cm. The muzzle is short, not too wide. The wool of the glasses of the Bear Cosmata, has a black or black and brown shade, white-yellow rings are necessarily present around the eyes, smoothly passing into the whites "collar" from fur on the neck of the animal. The habitat of this type of bears is the countries of South America: Columbia and Bolivia, Peru and Ecuador, Venezuela and Panama.

• Gubach (Melursus Ursinus.)

A predator with a body length is up to 1.8 meters, in the withers height varies from 65 to 90 centimeters, the females are about 30% less than males on both indicators. Gubacha's body is massive, the head is large, with a flat forehead and an excessively elongated face, which ends with movable, fully devoid of wool, filled with lips. The fur bear long, usually black or dirty-brown, in the neck of the animal, often forms the likeness of the mund. Bear Bear-Gubacha has a light spot. The habitat of this type of bears is India, some areas of Pakistan, Bhutan, the territory of Bangladesh and Nepal.

• Giant panda (bamboo bear) ( Ailuropoda Melanoleuca.)

This type of bears has a massive, squat body, which is covered with a dense, thick fur of black and white color. Paws are short, thick, with sharp claws and absolutely devoid of wool pads: This allows the pandas to hold the smooth and slippery bamboo stems. The structure of the front paws of these bears is very unusually developed: five ordinary fingers complement the large sixth, although it is not a real finger, but is a modified bone. Such amazing paws allow panda to be easily controlled with the finest bamboo shoots. A bamboo bear in the mountainous regions of China lives, especially large populations live on Tibet and Sichuan.

Where are the bears inhabit?

The ambulation of bears includes Eurasia, North and South America, Asia, some Islands of Japan, the northwestern part of Africa and Arctic expanses. Live bears in the forest. In addition to the White Bears, all representatives of this family lead a settling lifestyle. They can hold on to families (bear bear with bear), but usually prefer loneliness. Each individual has its own territory on which the bear lives, hunting and winter. In places with excessive feeds, several bears can be at the same time. Animals living in cold regions fall into a seasonal hibernation, lasting up to 200 days.

What is the Bear eat?

In the diet of the bear enters both vegetable and animal food. Brown bears except berries, mushrooms, nuts and various roots eating meat

Reproduction of bears

Although the bears of the monogamna, their pairs are not durable. Shortly after the marriage season passing different species At different times, they disintegrate. Depending on the species affiliation, the pregnancy of the Medolitz lasts from 180 to 250 days. Bear's female gives birth during the winter hibernation and from refuge it turns out with bearings. In the litter, usually from 1 to 4 cubs that are born without teeth, with eyes closed and practically without fur cover. For about a year they feed the maternal milk. About 2 years old, kids are near the mother. Last litter bearings help mothers in the upbringing of young offspring. Fresh bears become 3-5 years old.

In zoos, bears are contained in large enclosures, in which conditions are created, the most relevant natural habitat of each species. In addition to tree trunks, piles of stones and wooden structures require a spacious pool. Feed must match seasonality and contain products that are available to an animal in vivo. As adding to the diet, vitamins, bone flour and fish fat. Despite the fact that small bearings are very miles and funny, keep this wild animal at home is not worth it: an adult bear is a dangerous and strong predator for which the native home is natural natural spaces.

• Malay (Sunny) Bear is the smallest among "bearish" representatives - its size does not exceed the dimensions of a large dog: the height in the withers is only 55-70 centimeters, and the weight varies from 30 to 65 kg.
• Normal Bear Pulse - 40 beats per minute, but in the process of winter hibernation, this indicator drops to 8-10 shots.
• True predator is only white polar bear: It feeds on meat and fish, all other types of "clubboy" are omnivorous and prefer a varied menu.
• The newborn brown bears when the light occurs only 450-500 grams weighs, but this crumble adds to the achievement of a hawk age in weight 1000 times!

More than half of the collection of polar bears of Russian zoos make up animals from nature. Another half is the offspring of pairs of polar bears formed in zoos from wild features and (or) already born from them in captivity.

IN wildlife For various reasons, including, according to the natural, cubs remain unattended by the mother and, unfortunately, their further existence in the tundra is under threat.
According to experts, 10 - 15 cubs who left their natural habitats die annually. But not all the cubs are waiting for such a sad outcome.

At the end of September 2018, the administration of the urban settlement Dickson appealed to the Office of Rosprirodnadzor Krasnoyarsk Territory And to the leadership of the Krasnoyarsk Park Flora and Fauna "" with a request to assist. A young appeared in the settlement polar bear. All animal scaring events did not bring the expected results. Bear returned to the village, fed on landfills, there were cases when he spent the night at the houses (in the village Dickson almost all houses were built on stilts due to eternal permafrost).

Dixon is the northernmost settlement of the Krasnoyarsk Territory. There, for the polar circle, people have been living and working for many years. In addition to harsh living conditions, hurricane winds and frosts, each year Northerners are communicated with the White Bear. Bears willingly attend the place of residence and economic activity man. Some entails curiosity here, the other hunger drives. Especially attract dumps with food wasteUnfortunately, located next to the polar stations, expedition bases, forecasts, villages on the coast.

Bear from Dixon probably remained without a mother. The female of the White Bear takes his young for the first two years, teaching how to extract food, how to avoid danger, what to do in the Purga. They will no longer lie in Berloga, and round year Wander through the Arctic. Only on the third year of life, in the spring, the bear is leaving the mother and begin an independent life. Such young animals have grown in almost mom, but there is still little life experience. Like human adolescents, they are typical of careless behavior. Therefore, even adolescent bears up to 3 years old often fall into trouble, come to the villages and fall into "criminal chronicles".

foto Sophia Rosenfeld

Well, if suddenly it happens that the teddy bear, not yet trained by the Azam survival, hunting, life in ice, remains orphans? Chances to survive, for the untrained mining the food of the animal are extremely small. It was such a bear, which is already large enough, born to the village, finding for itself the opportunity to survive, beating on the dumps.
Possible scenarios for the development of such a "neighborhood" are predictable, the likelihood is that people or an animal will suffer. There is no possibility due to the lack of needed behavior skills in the natural habitat, to return the saved baby into the wild nature. In this regard, only a zoo may become the only home for such animals.

Specialists of the Krasnoyarsk Zoo "ROOF RUCH" have extensive experience in the rescue and content of polar bears. In particular, in 2006, the White Bear Felix was saved in Krasnoyarsk from Wrangel Island and successfully. Four years later, the Taimyr Peninsula were brought two bears - female Aurora and Victoria, who received a chance for survival due to the zoo.

Thanks to the program of the guardianship of polar bears in all zoos of Russia, which as a responsible nature user has been implementing since 2015 Oil company "" The case of salvation of bear-found has received serious support. As part of this program, there are white bears in all zoos of Russia, held scientific research and monitoring the populations of the White Bear in a natural habitat. The development of a project to save white bearings began to develop a project.

The active participant of this project was the park "", the most close to the habitats of the northern giants.

On October 1, 2018, documents on the coordination of the procedure for selecting a white bear from the natural habitat with the subsequent rehabilitation and rehabilitation in the Krasnoyarsk Zoo "ROOF COVER" were sent to the Federal Service for Supervision in Natural Management.

Experienced employees of the Krasnoyarsk Zoo "Roof Ruch" flew on October 10, 2018 in the village of Dickson for the catch, transportation and temporary detention of a bear in Krasnoyarsk.

This group of professionals, consisting of specialists from the Zoo and Okhotovyov of the Krasnoyarsk Environmental Office, together with local Dixon services, held a whole rescue operation for catching and transporting this, despite its small age, a dangerous predator.

ANO "Society of Wildlife" together with the Institute for Ecology and Evolution. A.N. Seversow of the Russian Academy of Sciences carried out an operational consulting of the Krasnoyarsk Zoo on all issues related to the salvation of a bear: for catching, transporting and overexpose.

To ensure that all the necessary measures to save the bear was managed by supporting PJSC NK.

With operational assistance to airlines "" and "" on October 16, the bear was sent under the supervision of a veterinary doctor and zoo and delivered "to the mainland" first to Norilsk, and on the same day, the bear came to Krasnoyarsk.

Currently, the White Bear is rehabilitated in the Krasnoyarsk Zoo "Roy Rosch", he was placed in Quarantine, where veterinarians are carefully watching. After all the necessary measures to study his health and its rehabilitation, it may be decided to further in fate.

Considering that this is not the first case of the emergence of unsound in Dixon

Ano "Society for the Conservation and Study of Wildlife" and the Krasnoyarsk Zoo "Roe Or Ruch", based on the results of the operation to save a bear, made a decision on the need to create in Dixon to rescue the cubs equipped with special boxes for catching and overexpose by kids, food reserves and necessary medicines.

Salvation of the White Bear has become possible due to the coordinated actions of many organizations - the Krasnoyarsk Park Flora and the Fauna Ruchi, the administration of the city of Krasnoyarsk and authorized bodies state power Krasnoyarsk Territory, ANO "Society for the preservation and study of wildlife" and others.

A source: Materials ANO "Wildlife Society" and Park "", video

Where are all the defenders of animals, this is a real concentration camp

Malay Bears are the smallest view among this family! Their dimensions rarely go beyond adults! The length of the middle individual is only a half meters! Their wool is very short and rude, and on the chest there is a funeral semicircle! If you look at them carefully, we can conclude that the bears are very fastened and very "dense"!

Here, for example, healthy Malay Bears look so standard

All this in order for you to understand what nesting state is the heroes of our further story ...

These poor Malay Bears live in the Indonesian zoo, where hundreds come every day, if not thousands of visitors! And every time they look at the guests with pity and ask at least some food! Just take a look at his rack, the ribs are clearly visible from the poor baby! And even the water in the aviary turbid and incredibly dirty, and the conditions are generally left to desire the best! Also reported that elephant died in the same private zoo for unknown reasons. Many people have already written complaints about this zoo in different instances, but no reaction has not received ...

Apparently, someone is very influential earns money on the suffering of these animals. Finally, serious news channels recently took over this zoo, the World Glory may be able to influence the owners of this concentration campaign ...

A well-known beast is distributed almost throughout the northern hemisphere, a symbol of power, strength, hero of many fairy tales and legends.

Systematics

Latin name - Ursus Arctos

English name - Brown Bear.

Detachment - predatory (Carnivora)

Family - Bear (Ursidae)

Rod - Bears (URSUS)

Nature of nature

The brown bear is currently no disappearance, with the exception of some subspecies living in Western Europe And in the south of North America. In these places, animals are protected by law. Where the beast is numerous, limited hunting is allowed.

View and man

For a long time, the bear occupies the imagination of people. Because of the manners often climb the bear's rear paws with more than any other animal, it looks like a person. "The owner of the forest" - so it is usually important. Bear is a character of many fairy tales, there are many sayings and proverbs about it. In them, most often this beast appears as good-natured slaughter, a little silly solo, ready to protect the weak. Respectative-indulgent attitude towards this anima is seen from the people's names: "Mikhail Potapich", "Toptygin", "Kosolapiy" .... Creation of the man himself with a bear can be both flattering for him ("Sille, like a bear") and derogatory ( "Clumsy, like a bear").

The bear is very common as a stamp figure, this is a symbol of strength, tricks and ferocity in the defense of the Fatherland. Therefore, he is depicted on the coat of arms of many cities: Perm, Berlin, Bern, Ekaterinburg, Novgorod, Norilsk, Syktyvkar, Khabarovsk, Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk, Yaroslavl and others.

Distribution area and habitat

The scope of the brown bear is very extensive, covers the entire forest and forested zone of Eurasia and North America, in the north stretches to the border of forests, in the south of mountain areas, comes to small and front Asia, Tibet, Korea. Currently, the area of \u200b\u200bthe form, once solid, significantly decreased to more or less large fragments. The beast disappeared on the Japanese Islands, in the Atlas Mountains in the North-West Africa, for the most of the Iranian Highlands, on the extensive central plain in North America. In Western and Central Europe, this species remained only in small mountain areas. On the territory of Russia, the distribution area is changed to a lesser extent, the beast is still common in the forests of Siberia and Far East, in the Russian north.

Brown bear is a typical forest inhabitant. Most often, it is found in the extensive taiga arrays, abounding by Bourgear, moss swamps and dismembered by rivers, and in the mountains - gorges. The preference of the beast gives forests with dark rocks - fir, fir, cedar. In the mountains, he lives among wide forests, or in the archevniks.

Appearance and morphology

Brown bear is a very large massive beast, one of the largest land predators. Within the family, the brown bear is inferior in size only white. The largest of the brown bears live in Alaska, they are called codeaki, the body length of codeak reaches 250 cm, height in the withers 130 cm, weight up to 750 kg. Only a little inferior to them in the sizes of bears living in Kamchatka. In the middle lane of Russia, the weight of "typical" bears is 250-300 kg.

A brown bear is generally proportionally, a massive species give it a thick fur and slowness of movements. The head of this beast is heavy, labored, not so elongated like white. Lips, like nose, black, eyes are small, deeply planted. The tail is very short, entirely hidden in the fur. Claws are long, up to 10 cm, especially on the front paws, but few are bent. Fur is very thick and long, especially in animals living in the northern part of the range. Coloring usually drowned, but different animals can vary from almost black to straw yellow.

From the senses of the brown bear, the smell is best developed, the hearing is weaker, and the vision is bad, so that they are almost and not guided by the beast.

Lifestyle and social organization

Brown bears, unlike whites, most of them are trembling. Everyonean individual plot engaged in one beast can be quite extensive, and cover the area to several hundred square meters. km. The boundaries of the plots are meaningful, and in a strong rough terrain there are practically absent. Plots of males and females overlap. Within the site there are places where the beast is usually fed, where there is temporary asylum or lies in the berry.

In places of constant habitat of bears, their regular movements on the site are indicated by well-visible paths. They look like human paths, only unlike them along the bear trails on the branches are often hanging blinds of bearish wool, and on the trunks of particularly notable trees there are bearish labels - snacks of teeth and bark, encouraged by claws at that height, to which the beast can reach. Such marks show other bears that the site is busy. Trails are associated between themselves, where the bear is guaranteed to find food. Bears are paving them at the most convenient places, choosing the shortest distance between the objects significant for themselves.

A sedentary lifestyle does not prevent the bear to make seasonal nomads in places where this moment Food is more accessible. In the lack of years in search of the burden, the Bear is able to pass 200-300 km. In the flat taiga, for example, summer, the animals are spent on the glades overgrown with high-level, early autumn are tightened to the marshes, which attracts ripened cranberries. In the mountainous regions of Siberia, they at the same time are moved to the Goltz zone, where the abundance of cedar stabel nuts and cedar berries are found. On the Pacific coast during the mass movement of red fish, the beasts from afar come to the mouths of the rivers.

The characteristic feature of the brown bear, peculiar and males, and females, - Winter sleep in Berorog. Berlogs are located in the most secluded places: on small islands among the moss marshes, among the burvero or dense meal. Bears arrange them most often under the palp trees and decks, under the roots of large cedars and fir trees. Earth burgots are dominated in mountain locations, which are located in the crevices of rocks, shallow caves, deepening under the stones. From the inside of Berloga, it is very careful - the beast sweeps the bottom of moss, branches with a cheese, bunches of dry grass. Where there is little suitable places for wintering, for many years in a row of Berlogs form real "bearish towns": for example, 26 Berlogov found on Altai on a segment of 10 km long.

In different places bears sleep in winter from 2.5 to 6 months. In warm edges, with abundant yields, the bears for all winter do not run in the Berlry, and only from time to time under adverse conditions for several days plunge into sleep. Bears are sleeping by one, only females who have cubs-flying, fit together with their bearings. During sleep, if the beast is disturbed, it is easily awakened. Often the bear himself leaves Berloga with long thaws, returning to it at the slightest cold.

Food and Feed Behavior

Brown bear is a real omnivorous animal who eats more vegetable than animal feed. The hardest thing to feed the bear in early springWhen vegetable food is completely insufficient. At this time of the year, he hunts on large hoofs, eats Padal. Then he rolls the anthills, mining the larvae and the ants themselves. From the beginning of the appearance of greenery and before the mass maturation of various berries, the bear is most of the time on "bearish pastures" - forest glades and meadows, joining the umbrella (Borshchevik, Dudnik), Osay, Drama. From the second half of the summer, when the berries begin to sleep, the bears are moving throughout the forest zone. The autumn period is most important to prepare for winter - the time of eating trees fruit. In the middle lane, these are acorns, laundry nuts, in the taiga - cedar nut, in the mountain southern forests - wild apples, pears, cherry, pinway. The favorite food of the bear is early in autumn - sleeping oats.

Hiding grass in the meadow, the bear peacefully "grazing" with hours, like a cow or horse, or collects the stalks you liked the front paws and sends them to the mouth. Climbing on the fruiting trees, this slast threatens the branches, fruit fruits in place, or resets them down, sometimes just shakes the crown. Less clever animals graze under the trees, picking up the fallen fruits.

The brown bear willingly dig in the ground, getting juicy rhizomes and soil invertebrates, turns over the stones, removing and drinking worms, beetles and other animals from under them.

Bears living in rivers from the Pacific coast, - avid fishermen. During the move of red fish, they are collected from the focate. Passening the Fishing Bear comes on the belly in the water and a strong fast blow of the front paw throws onto the shore of the flooded fishery.

Large empty-deer, elk - a bear grinds, completely silently seeding to the victim from a leeward side. The roe is sometimes pushed in the ambush at the trail or water. His attack is rapidly and almost irresistible.

Reproduction and cultivation of offspring

The marriage season begins in May-June. At this time, the males pursue females, roar, fiercely fighting, sometimes fatal. At this time, they are aggressive and dangerous. The formed pair goes together for about a month, and if a new applicant appears, it will distinguish not only the male, but also a female.

Bear (usually 2) Rail in Berorga in January, weigh only about 500 g, covered with rare wool, with eyes closed and ears. Clear holes are scheduled for the end of the second week, after another 2 weeks open their eyes. All his first 2 months of life, they lie under the side of the mother, moving very little. Sleep at the Mesman is not deep, because she needs to be care for cubs. By the time of the exit from the Berls of the Bear reaches the size of a small dog, weigh from 3 to 7 kg. Dairy feeding lasts until six months, but at 3 months old, young animals begin to gradually master her plant food, imitating mother.

The entire first year of the life of the bear remains with the mother, spending another winter with her in Beror. In 3-4 years of age, young bears become half-arms, but complete heyday reach only at the age of 8-10 years.

Life expectancy

In nature, about 30 years, in captivity they live to 45-50 years.

Animal content in the Moscow Zoo

Brown bears are contained in the zoo since the year of its foundation - 1864. Until recently, they lived on the "island of animals" (new territory) and in the children's zoo. A bear from the children's zoo in the early 1990s brought as a gift to the first president of Russia B.N. Heltsin Governor of the Primorsky Krai. The president prudently did not keep the "this little animal" at home, but handed over to the zoo. When the first reconstruction was going, the bear temporarily left Moscow, stayed in another zoo, and then returned. Now there is a second reconstruction, and the bear left Moscow again, this time in the Zoo of the Great Ustyug, where it will remain constantly.

Currently, in the zoo, one brown bear who lives on the "Island of the Beasts". This is an elderly female of Kamchatka subspecies, classic brown color, very large. All winter she sleeps tightly in her burgher, despite the noisy life of the metropolis. The winter "apartment" helps to equip people: the bottom of "Berlogs" is lined with coniferous branches, over - perina from the hay. Before you sleep the bears and in nature, and in the zoo eating a cheva - a bactericidal tube is formed in the intestines. Wake up the beasts may rather no noise, but long warming, as happened in the winter of 2006-2007.

Conditions of unbeasies Brown bears transfer well, but, of course, they miss, because in nature they are maintained in search and eating food, which do not have to do in the zoo. Mandatory attributes in bearish aviary - trees trunks. Bears fighting their claws, leaving their labels, try to look for the crust and in the wood in the wood, finally play small logs. And from boredom, bears begin to interact with visitors. For example, our bear sits on the hind legs, and the front begins to wave people. Everyone around is rejoicing and throwing a wide variety of items in the aviary, most often food. Something of the abandoned is eaten, something is just sniffing - an animal is satisfied. Scientists believe that the bear thus does not simply defuses food or makes its medium more diverse, he begins to manage the behavior of visitors: waved - they gave tasty. This removes stress from the content in a small aviary and life on a certain schedule. But still you do not need animals in the zoo feed - their diet is balanced, and much of what we eat is harmful.

Very often in the spring and in the first half of the summer, telephone calls are distributed in the zoo, "people want to attach the bear found in the forest. We urge everyone who saw a bear in the forest - do not take it! Mother is most likely somewhere nearby, she can stand on protecting her cub, and it is very dangerous for you! The kid could drive and adult male, caring for a bear, but never know what causes, besides the death of the Males, a bear could be brought to people. The bear who fell to a person is doomed to be killed, or to spend life in captivity. Bear, who remained in the forest one at the age of 5-6 months (July-August) has a very good chance to survive and live free. Do not deprive him this chance!

The Bear is the largest land predator, stunning with its sizes and habits. Looking at these powerful and dangerous representatives of the animal world interesting to all - and adults, and kids. The bears living in the wild can be hungry and take you for food, and white bears are not afraid of man at all. Therefore, the safest place of acquaintance with the prototype of cute Winnie Pooh or the Umki is a zoo or circus. However, we know that the bears are sleeping in the winter. Is it worth starting to get acquainted with the teddy bear in the winter? Are bears living in the zoo in a winter hibernation? Let's try to figure out.

First of all, it should be noted that from all kinds of bears, only some (brown, Himalayan and black) fall into winter sleep, that is, spend a few months in Berloda. Female white bears during pregnancy too winter months spend in the lair. Yes, and the winter dream of the bears is different from the winter hibernation by the fact that it remains the basic life functions. For example, a brown bear has a body temperature drops only a few degrees (from 37 to 31), and it can wake up at any time. For comparison, body temperature ordinary hedgehogwhich falls into the hibernation is only 1.8 degrees.

So, do the beets sleep in zoos? Let's start with white polar giants. The males of polar bears do not fall into the hibernation, on the contrary, they sleep even in the winter than in the summer. After all, in the places of their habitat, the main food - seals, nerves, reindeer and even white whales are in winter and summer. In winter, the hunt of polar bears is also simplified. For example, white whales are weakened by the fight against ice, so catch them to become much easier than in the summer.

Another thing, females of polar bears. They really spend most of the time in the winter months in a dream. This is due to the fact that at that time, a bear lays off the offspring and feeds the born cubs. In order to give birth and fade 1-4 cubs, a bear in front of wintering increases its weight almost twice. There are no need to stock in captivity of white bears living in captivity of white bears, so in most zoos, they do not sleep in the winter, and having fun rolling from a hill or chasing raven.

For the most common in our lands of brown bears, winter sleep is the necessary physiological process. In the winter period, there is little food, so the bears in front of the winter is found in the future and arrange the winter lair - Berloga. The weight of the kolapos is increasing by 40%, so they can slightly "bite" in the winter. In zoos, brown bears (like the same lovers sleep - black and the Himalayan bears) behave differently. Some, as well as their counterparts in the wild, are arranged more comfortably and sleep until April. Others - can not fall asleep and lazily go all winter - roam in cells or enclosures. Zoologists believe that this kinds of bears winter sleep is necessary, since there may be obesity with all its consequences in its absence. Therefore, you should not attend brown, black and Himalayan bears, firstly you can prevent them from sleeping, secondly, you will not see anything interesting, the Bear's body is programmed to sleep.

So, do the bears sleep in zoos? In zoos, where the maximum care about the preservation natural conditions For animals, those representatives of the closure world, who should be, of course sleep. Therefore, if you decide to visit the brown, black or Himalayan bear, better wait until spring. If you are interested in other representatives of this terrible tribe, then go boldly in the zoo.