Description: Colour can be black, cinnamon, bluish or white. Weight ranges from 200 to 600 pounds, can be up to six feet tall when standing up on their hind legs.

Habitat: Forested area. Home ranges can be from five to 225 square miles for a single male.

Feeding: Omnivorous. Prefer vegetable matter, but will also eat insect larvae, fish, carrion, garbage and ungulate calves.

General: Hibernate in dens during the winter for up to six months depending on the weather. Females give birth to two or three cubs every second year during the denning season.

References: Rezendes, Paul. 1992. Tracking & the Art of Seeing: How to Read Animal Tracks & Sign. Camden House Publishing Inc. Charlotte, Vermont.

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