What do bears eat?

Question

What kind of foods do different kinds of bears eat? (No Links to Other Websites Pleaz)

Answer 1

honey

Answer 2

Bears, despite being members of Order Carnivora, are omnivores like you and I. They eat a wide variety of food ranging from berries and vegetation to meat and fish. Of course, polar bears are going to be almost exclusively carnivorous, eating mostly seals and fish, due to the fact that over most of their range their environment supports little to no plant life. The other types of bears will eat just about anything.

Answer 3

bears are omnivores, eating both vegetation and meats ,but are more likely to eat fruits and berries.
a bear is a creature of opportunity ,and generally seeks the easiest meal possible and only exerts what energy is necessary in getting meals often scavenging . the bear will hunt when other food sources are not available and in areas where the salmon run or other large fish gather and spawn they will fish but they don't waste allot of energy doing so.
a bears main concern is to take in as many calories as possible ,with as little effort as possible in order to sustain nourishment through hibernation.
hope this helps

Answer 4

Black Bears. They have a wide an varied diet. They can and will eat nearly anything. Typical of bears, they are fond of honey, and are responsible for thousands of dollars worth of damage to aphiaries each year.

Brown bears are technically carnivores, but in practice most of their diet consists of plant matter such as sedges, grasses, bulbs, seeds, berries, and roots. They will also eat insects, fish, and small mammals. Some of these bears have even developed predatory practices on large animals, including moose, caribou, and elk.

The polar bear is a mighty hunter of seals. The most carnivorous of the bears, it is also the most patient. They will sit near a seal blow-hole for hours, waiting, until the animal surfaces. When it does, it is all over for the seal. One powerful blow from a forepaw brings a swift meal for the bear and a swifter death for the seal.

The diet of the asiatic black bear is quite diverse. They eat carrion, bee's nests, insects, invertibrates, small vertibrates, and fruit. They have been known to kill domestic livestock, but to what degree they exhibit this predation is not known. They are also known to make daybeds and feeding platforms in nut-bearing trees.

Sloth Bear. The nostrils of the muzzle can be closed at will, possibly as an adaptation to the defenses of the termites which make up a large portion of their diet.

The spectacled bears eat a wide variety of food, ranging from mice, rabbits, birds, berries, grasses and orchid bulbs all the way to their favorite food, the leaves, bases, and hearts of the Bromeliacae plant family. Many times, these animals will climb cacti to taste of the fruit at the top. Similarly, they will build nests in the tops of trees to use as a crude form of feeding platform as well as a sleeping place and day bed.

The omnivorous sun bear lives on a diet consisting mostly of termites, birds, small mammals, and even bits of oil palms, and other commercial crops.

Pandas are quite vegitarian, making bamboo 99% of their diet. Adults can eat anywhere between 26 and 33 pounds of it in a day, and with soft new shoots up to 84 pounds! Incredibly, that's almost 40% of their body weight! Ocassionally they consume meat and some other plants.

Answer 5

Most bears eat about anything they can. The will prey on other animals, eat vegetable matter, honey, fish, and are scavengers and will eat carrion. Bears are omnivores, like humans.

The panda is not as closely related to bears as it is to the raccoon. It has evolved to be able to survive on a diet of bamboo shoots and leaves.

The koala is not a bear at all, it is a marsupial.

Answer 6

Bears are omnivorous. They will eat anything that pleases their taste and doesn't require a lot of risk - berries, fish, mammals, insects, honey, you, your dog, mayonaise, ice cream and on and on.


In most settings bears are the top predator so just say they will eat anything doesn't eat them first.

Answer 7

It depends, because they are mainly omnivores
*Alaskan brown bears group in the same area to feed on salmon during the annual salmon runs, when the fish swim upriver to reach their spawning grounds.
*With polar bears, they eat primarily ringed seals, and occasionally bearded seals, walruses, or white whales. They also feed on berries, sedges, mussels, and kelp.
*Pandas eat bamboo because their jaw bones and cheek muscles really strong.
*With black bears, they feed mostly on berries, acorns, succulent herbs, fish, carrion, and insects.

Answer 8

Panda's prime food is bamboo, Polar bears any type of meat they can get hold of, brown bears, black bears a mixture of meat and vegetation.

Answer 9

Hmm, you don't want to look at websites? Did someone give you wrong websites to look at?
Nevermind.....
Simple~~fish from the rushing water area, is one I know of..

Answer 10

So...you don't want to do your own homework...you want other people to do it for you! I am always willing to find websites with good info to help people find what they need...but I will not find the infor FOR someone else and give them the answers. I certainly hope no one else does either. You could very easily find this info for yourself.

Answer 11

well bears are omnivores, meaning that they eat both meat and vegetables.....so......fish, and berries......that's all i know about