The largest individual bear from an existing species was a male polar bear that weighed about 2,210 pounds. Polar bear is the world’s largest land carnivore as well as the largest bear. The average weight of male Polar bear is around 900 pounds to 1500 pounds and average length of almost 8 to 9 feet. It is from the icy waste of the Arctic.

Polar Bears Picture

Sun bear is one of the types of Bears and is famous as the smallest bear in the world mainly from South East Asia. It is also famous with another name as Himalayan Black Bear. Sun bear are almost 1.2m to 1.4 m long and weigh about 25 kg to 65 kg. They are black in color and have a black and white on their chests. They have a very fluffy and soft skin that they can easily turn their head at all sides. Sun bears have been in danger from people harvesting various parts of their skin and bodies for use in Traditional Chinese Medicine. These bears use to live in their nests and spend maximum of its daytime in sleeping and sunbathing. They go out for feeding at night.

Sun Bear Picture

Grizzly Bears are the most widely distributed species and is consider as the subspecies of Brown bear. It is a vital fact that all Grizzly bears can be named as brown bears but all brown bears cannot be termed as Grizzly bears. Their numbers are rapidly dwindling and tapering because of over hunting. They are large specie with big round ears and black nose. One unique characteristic of these bears are that they have hump at their back which give them extra power to dig and run. They are heavy like more than 700 pounds. Their diet consists largely of vegetation and other animals, including tubers which they dig up with their sharp claws, berries, fruits and nuts. They also feed on insect grubs, fish, carrion and young deer. When not in hibernation they can eat up to almost 16kg per day. Females give birth to their babies between January and March in the female’s lair. They are no hairs on the cubs when they take birth and are helpless. They may remain with their mother for as long as four years. They can live up to 20 to 25 years in normal and 25 to 30 years approximately in wild.

Grizzly Bear Picture

Polar Bears are cute looking white bears, live in the icy wastes of the Arctic poles. Among the carnivores they are the largest land carnivores. Polar Bears are born mostly on land, and much of the time usually spends at sea. They breed themselves by spearing the seals with their jaws from the sea and eat them. Polar bears’ long neck and narrow skull aid in streamlining the animal in water, and their large, flat and oar-like front feet make them strong swimmers. None of the other bear category has that much thickness of its fur as Polar bear have. Mostly female Polar bears used to give birth to their young in the dens dug in drifted snow, who are called as cubs, in the months of December and January. The weight of the cub is almost around 600g and the weight of female bear (mother) is around 300kg. The growth of Polar bear cub is quit rapid as the milk they get from their mother is very dense and full of fats. Cubs mostly live with their mother for approximately 28 months.

Polar Bear Picture

A bear commonly have large body with stocky legs, shaggy hairs and paws with five no retractile claws, and a little tail. They are considered to be the largest flesh-eating land mammals: They are so heavy that the biggest bear weighs three or more times as much as a oldest lion. Bears will sometimes kill large animals but they are mostly omnivorous, feeding on both plants and small creatures. Bears can even swim well and young ones can climb trees, but as they grow older n older they stop practicing such things. Bears although have poor eyesight and hearing, but their sense of smell is quit extra. They are usually in habit of living alone, but they do get together when there is plenty of food. They don’t go into deep hibernation, and it is at this time that females produce their young. The cubs are very small less than 1per cent of their mother’s weight.

Bears Picture

Types Of Bears

There are various types of Bears in the world. It is said that there are almost 8 types of bears round the globe. They are considered to be the largest Flesh-eating mammals on earth. Bear category has included in it one more type that is Giant Panda. Scientist has worked many years just to find out this truth that either Panda is from the raccoon family or from the bear one. But finally by doing DNA tests, studies have shown that that giant panda is more closely related to the bear. Other then Panda there are only seven types of bears in the world. Many bears are not the fierce predators we are often led to believe. Bears, wolves, hyenas and weasels’ combine to make up only four groups of carnivores that are related in their evolutionary descent from the miacid. Miacid are those creatures that lasted for more than 50 years. Hence the eight most renowned bears are named as Sun bear, Spectacled bear, Sloth bear, Asiatic Bear, Giant Pandas, Polar Bears, Brown Bears and last but not the least American Black Bears. They are the only ones which are present.