Food of bears in zoos, national parks and reserves is watched by inspectors. They give to animals fish, meat, stalks, fruits and roots of plants. At liberty the bear itself gets to himself livelihood.
Menu of an omnivorous animal In spite of the fact that the bear by the nature is a predator, he prefers to eat vegetable food. As it is surprising, but the brown bear loves berries, stalks and leaves of bushes and also honey. The thirst for honey forces an animal to take the risk and to get into beehives to wild bees from where quite often it should carry away the paws.
Quite often the animal in search of tasty food gets on fodder platforms and cereal fields, in particular on crops of oats and corn.
Taiga and marshy places are rich with various berries which are so loved by a brown bear. He does not refuse and from raznotravya. And clumsy eats only a certain part of plants. To regale a bear most often on their leaves, stalks, fruits or roots. Special time for a brown bear — spring when he can accumulate days for flight body weight after long hibernation due to eating of vegetation.
However vegetable food is only a half of the menu of a brown bear. Its other part is made by animal food. After an exit from hibernation the bear hunts rodents, eats any insects and their larvae. For the sake of it the animal will not be too lazy even to dig out a hole to pull out from under the earth of mice, moles, chipmunks and groundhogs. Bears have a reputation for devastators of ant hills and apiaries.
Hunting and fishingBeing chosen to reservoirs, brown bears become the real fishers. Especially during a spawning time when fishes throw caviar, the brown predator will not miss the moment for the sake of such delicacy. Most of all animal appreciates a trout and a salmon. If nearby are grazed artiodactyl, then clumsy without thinking attacks elks, boars or deer. Hunger drives a brown bear from the wood to people. There he often attacks house cattle: horses, cows and sheep. There are cases when the bear attacks the relatives of other breed and also wolves and tigers.
Stories about a bear who very much loves honey, not an invention at all. Bears really big sweet teeth ready to get even on trees in search of honey of wild bees.
If the animal is absolutely hungry, then he can attack also own cub. Therefore, having felt threat, the she-bear with kids seeks to leave on safe distance until the posterity grows up. The full bear does not pose a big threat even for the person, however, you should not risk and look for with it meetings.