The researchers looked at 22 years' worth of data, following more than 500 bears, many of them from birth to death.Before 2005, they found that only about seven percent of Scandinavian brown bear ...

Two subspecies of brown bear are native to North America: the grizzly bear (U. a. horribilis) and the Kodiak bear ... Females can give birth to up to four cubs, but typically have two cubs.

Human hunting changes brown bear reproductive strategies, so that the cubs stay with their mother longer. As a result, the females have fewer offspring, but grow older.

Brown Bear Cubs Are Born the Size of a Tiny Chipmunk One would expect the cubs to weigh at least five or 10 pounds at birth because their mothers are enormous. However, they are born extremely ...

Brown bear cubs living in the forests of Sweden are spending longer with their mothers. Baby bears stay by their mother's side until they are aged two-and-a-half - an extra year compared with a ...

Female brown bears give birth over the winter, and stay with their cubs until the latter are around two-and-a-half years old. A stock image of a bear and her cub. A hunter in Alaska has shot and ...

Nikki, a female Kodiak brown bear from Alaska, at the Burnet Park Zoo exhibit in 1996. In 1923, the birth of Buster the bear cub was celebrated as the first bear born in Syracuse in generations.

Polar bears weigh in as the largest species in the bear family, except for Alaska's Kodiak brown bears, which are equivalent in size. But at birth, young cubs are much more vulnerable.