Ultimate Predators: On the Hunt with Grizzly Bears
THE ANIMAL WORLD IS FULL OF PREDATORS Predators are hunters that find catch and eat other animals their prey to survive Every environment has its chain of hunters The smaller slower less able predators become part of the prey for the bigger faster more cunning ones And everywhere just a few kinds of predators are at the top of the food chain These are the top predators In wilderness areas of Alaska and the northwestern parts of Canada and the United States one of these is the grizzly bear
WOW An adult grizzly's claws are strong and up to 4 inches 10 cm long
Why are grizzly bears one of the top predators For one thing the adults are big enough to hunt and kill their habitat's largest prey elk moose and bison By the time a grizzly bear is an adult both males and females can be 6.5 feet 2 m long and stand just over 3 to 4 feet 0.9 to 1.2 m tall on all fours
Adult grizzly bears also have a lot of weight to help them take down prey A male may weigh as much as 1,700 pounds 770 kg but a bear this big is rare Male grizzlies are usually as heavy as 900 pounds 408 kg Though a female is likely to only weigh half as much as a male she is still strong enough to overpower most of the other animals sharing her home range the area she regularly roams and hunts And when it wants to impress a grizzly stands up on its hind feet and becomes as much as 8 feet 2.4 m tall a super beast
