Bears have a better sense of smell than dogs. It is part of their hunting skills. They can sniff food at a distance of several kilometers. What a great nose!

You might have watched or read The Jungle Book. One of the characters there is Baloo. The famous bear from The Jungle Book is a sloth bear.

An adult grizzly bear normally needs to consume 20,000 calories a day. You might think that it's too much, but really their diet mostly consists of plants, berries, small rodents, and fish.

Don't you think your eyes are playing tricks on you? The truth is polar bears are jet black in color. Their fur is translucent, but it just appears to be white because it reflects visible light.

It may not look like it, but the bear's closest animal relative is the seal. Dogs, bears, and seals all fall in the order name "Caniformia," which means "dog-like.

In the bear kingdom, baby bears are called cubs, while female bears are sows, and male bears are boars. When the bears form a group, it is called a sloth.

Can you believe that black and grizzly bears can live without eating, drinking, urinating, and defecating for 100 days! It's not magic. They just use up the fat they had stored during the summer and fall.

Bears have two layers of fur. The first one is responsible for keeping them warm, while the second layer keeps the water away from the first layer of fur and their skin.

Winnie and his honey were made famous by Disney. Winnie the Pooh is perhaps the superstar in the bear community. Not all bears are scary, right? Some are fluffy and adorable in their own way.

WWF and DNA specialists from SPYGEN discovered that footprints in the snow are a way to reveal a polar bear's DNA as well as the food it had recently eaten. Amazing, isn't it?