Grizzly Bear Pictures and Fun Facts

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A grizzly bear cub wading in water.
Image Source: Steve Hillebrand, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.

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Fact: Grizzly bears can live as long as 26 or more years in the wild, and can grow to weigh 600 pounds. Even with all that weight, a grizzly can outrun a man, running up to 40 mph (that's 18 meters a second) in short spurts. Because of this, it is inadvisable to try to outrun a grizzly bear. Source: YellowstoneParknet.com

Quote: "[The female grizzly bear] brings forth her cubs, one, two, or three in number, in her winter den. They are very small and helpless things, and it is some time after she leaves her winter home before they can follow her for any distance. They stay with her throughout the summer and the fall, leaving her when the cold weather sets in. By this time they are well grown; and hence, especially if an old male has joined the she, the family may number three or four individuals, so as to make what seems like quite a little troop of bears." Source: Theodore Roosevelt in 1902, the 26th President of the United States of America.

A grizzly bear and two cubs foraging in a stream.
Image Source: Steve Hillebrand, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.

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