Today in Kids Corner I want to talk about the Black Bear. Here are some interesting facts about the Maine Black Bear.
The black bear is the smallest of all the other North American bears.
Maine has approximately 22,000 black bears that call Maine home.
Bears prefer to be in vast land filled with firs. They can however adjust with man.
They can run up to 25 miles per hour.
They are great climbers.
Male bears (boars) weigh between 250 and 600 pounds and stand 5 to 6 feet high.
Female bears (sows) weight between 100 to 400 pounds and stand 4 to 5 feet high.
Black bears communicate to each other through a series of grunts.
Bears very seldom kill their food source. They use their keen sense of smell to locate food such as berries, vegetation, corn, and honey.
Bears find a den and hibernate during the winter months. Bears do leave their dens on occasions.
Baby bears are born in January weighing less than a pound. Half of these babies will not survive until they are two years old. If they do survive until their second birthday the survival rate jumps up to 90 percent.
We are certainly lucky to have a such a pristine animal that lives in our backyards.
Have you ever seen a bear in the wild? They are very weary of people and seldom make themselves known to people that are around.
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