Teddy Bear 79/114 Puzzle in a Puzzle Mystery Cache

50 Incredible Bear Facts (Facts 26 – 50)

1.  Bears make a variety of sounds, including grunting, moaning, huffing and chuffing, and growling. 
2. Bears rub up against trees to add their scent to an area. This helps bears keep track of each other in their overlapping home ranges.
3. Polar bears live in the Arctic and are the largest bear species. They have a dense fur coat to insulate them from the cold and webbed toes to help them swim. 
4. A polar bear’s paws are covered by little bumps. This keeps the bears from slipping on ice.
5. Like other bears, polar bears have a layer of fat that serves as an energy reserve, but they don’t have blubber (a specialized type of fat common in marine mammals like whales and seals).
6. Polar bears rely on sea ice to hunt seals. As Arctic sea ice melts due to climate change, it makes life harder for polar bears.
7. Pregnant polar bears build dens in snow drifts when it’s time to give birth. This process, called “denning”, is essential for the cubs’ survival.
8. Polar bears have black skin, and even though their fur appears white, it’s actually hollow and clear. These hollow hairs help hold heat close to their bodies.
9. Grizzly/polar bear hybrids are a thing—should we call them “grolar bears” or “pizzly bears”?
10. Bears can stand (and walk) on two legs. They often stand on two legs to get up higher to investigate something that interests them. 
11. Bears can’t retract their long, curved claws. 
12. Moon bears, also called Asiatic black bears, live in the forests of Asia. They have black fur with a light-colored chest patch that looks like a crescent moon.
13. Sloth bears have shaggy black fur and an appetite for creepy-crawlies. Their special lips and tongue suck up termites and ants like a vacuum.
14. The sun bear of Southeast Asia is the smallest bear species at about 4 feet tall. It has black fur, except for a light-colored chest patch shaped like a ‘U’.
15. Sun bears copy each other’s facial expressions as a way to communicate and play.
16. The Malayan sun bear has the longest tongue among bears. Its tongue can be nearly 10 inches long, which helps the bear eat insects like termites and ants, as well as honey from beehives.
17. Spectacled bears or Andean bears are the only bears in South America. They have light-colored fur around their eyes, which makes it look like they’re wearing spectacles. 
18.  Spectacled bears build platforms and “nests” in trees.
19.  Running from a bear is a bad idea, because it might trigger the bear’s instinct to chase. Instead, back away slowly, make noise, and do whatever you can to make yourself look bigger than you are. You should also consider carrying bear spray.
20. Bears don’t hibernate; they enter a state of winter sleep called torpor. During winter sleep, a bear’s heart rate slows and its body temperature drops. It can go without eating, drinking, and excreting waste for months. 
21. Bears in torpor don’t sleep the whole winter. They wake up periodically to move around their dens, nurse their cubs, or just stretch and reposition themselves.
22. Bear cubs are born blind and nearly bald. They’re dependent on mom for the first several months of life. 
23. Bears can live for 30+ years. 
24. Bears tend to live alone, except during mating season and when mothers are raising cubs.
25.  If you did come across a group of bears, though, you’d call it a “sleuth” or a “sloth” of bears, which would make a group of sloth bears “a sloth of sloth bears.”

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Puzzle:

Amos    1Samuel    (Lamentation X 2)    Deuteronomy

(Exodus X 100)    Proverbs    1Samuel

(Malachi + 1Kings + Amos)    Hosea

(Numbers X 100)    Judges    Ruth

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