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Bears are large\u00a0dog\u00a0like\u00a0mammals\u00a0found all around the world. There are eight different species of bear that are found in a wide range of\u00a0habitats\u00a0in both the Northern and Southern Hemispheres, mainly the Americas,\u00a0Europe\u00a0and Asia.<\/p>\n
Most bears are\u00a0nocturnal, solitary\u00a0animals\u00a0only\u00a0really congregating during the bears mating season. The mother bear will then raise her cubs until they too, are old enough to live on their own. Bears generally have an excellent sense of smell and are also fantastic at climbing trees, swimming and are able to run at speeds of up to 35 mph for short periods of time.<\/p>\n
All bears are generally classified as\u00a0carnivores\u00a0but most species of bear today have adapted various herbivorous traits. For example, the giant panda has a\u00a0diet\u00a0that primarily comprises of bamboo. Most species of bear tend to hunt\u00a0fish\u00a0over land\u00a0animals, although its not uncommon for a bear to not eat\u00a0fish\u00a0at all.<\/p>\n
In Viking northern\u00a0Europe, the locals firmly believed that by wearing\u00a0a shirt made of bear skin, the wearer would adopt the powerful characteristics of the bear such as the bears strength and courage. Legend has it that the word\u00a0berserk<\/em>\u00a0is said to originate from this belief from the way the affected men adopting these bear attributes behaved, but whether this is true or not is hard to tell.<\/p>\n The Malaysian\u00a0sun bear\u00a0is the smallest of the existing bear species, with the average adultsun bear\u00a0measuring around 1 meter tall. The\u00a0polar bear\u00a0is generally the biggest species of bear with the adults growing to over 3 meters tall. The\u00a0grizzly bear\u00a0found in North America is the only other species of bear where the adults can get to this size, but it is uncommon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Bears are large\u00a0dog\u00a0like\u00a0mammals\u00a0found all around the world. There are eight different species of bear that are found in a wide range of\u00a0habitats\u00a0in both the Northern and Southern Hemispheres, mainly the Americas,\u00a0Europe\u00a0and Asia. Most bears are\u00a0nocturnal, solitary\u00a0animals\u00a0only\u00a0really congregating during the bears mating season. The mother bear will then raise her cubs until they too, are […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8723,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[833476],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-features"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.espol.edu.ec\/7dafer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.espol.edu.ec\/7dafer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.espol.edu.ec\/7dafer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.espol.edu.ec\/7dafer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8723"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.espol.edu.ec\/7dafer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blog.espol.edu.ec\/7dafer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17,"href":"https:\/\/blog.espol.edu.ec\/7dafer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14\/revisions\/17"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.espol.edu.ec\/7dafer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.espol.edu.ec\/7dafer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.espol.edu.ec\/7dafer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}