What food do Asiatic black bears like to eat? A detailed explanation of the Asiatic black bear's eating habits

The Asiatic black bear is a kind of bear, also known as the black blind bear, crescent bear, black bear, etc., and is a mammal of the order Carnivora, family Ursidae. Asiatic black bears are distributed from eastern Siberia to Northeast China and Japan. The Asiatic black bear has a huge body size, and its food intake is correspondingly large, so what do Asiatic black bears like to eat?

1. What Asiatic black bears like to eat

The Asiatic black bear is an omnivore, feeding mainly on plants. It eats green grass, tender twigs and buds, moss, berries and nuts, and also catches frogs, crabs and fish by the streams, digs for rodents, takes bird eggs, and is even more fond of licking ants and stealing honey, and may even attack small deer, sheep or feed on carrion. Most of the time the Asiatic black bear travels at night, and rests during the day in tree hollows or rock caves.

The Asiatic black bear likes to live in mountain forests at an altitude of 1000 to 3000 m. Some Asiatic black bears enter hibernation in winter; in some regions black bears sleep in caves throughout the whole winter, while others hibernate only during the few days when the winter climate is at its harshest. Black bears that need to hibernate begin to eat frantically everywhere at the end of summer so as to store enough fat. During hibernation their metabolic rate drops by half, and they no longer excrete.

2. The current survival situation of the Asiatic black bear

China's wild population of Asiatic black bears is estimated at 12000~18000. Worldwide, more than seven thousand Asiatic black bears endure the cruel torture of live bear bile extraction on more than four hundred bear farms, and these bears tortured by bile extraction live less than one third as long as normal Asiatic black bears. The Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora has long listed the black bear in Appendix I, restricting international trade in live black bears and their products and derivatives. China's Wild Animal Protection Law also lists the black bear as a second-class protected animal.

That is all for the Asiatic black bear. No trade, no killing. When you encounter illegal hunting of Asiatic black bears, promptly expose and report it to the relevant institutions and news organizations.