Polar Bear Diet: Hunting and Daily Calorie Needs
Polar bears eat 2 kg of seal blubber daily, hunting ringed and bearded seals on sea ice. Full breakdown of diet, hunting methods, and summer fallback foods.
April 2026
December 2024
Panda's Bamboo Diet: An Evolutionary Enigma
Pandas have a carnivore's gut but eat 12-38 kg of bamboo daily. A TAS1R1 pseudogene killed their umami taste 4.2 million years ago. The science explains why.
Grizzly Bear Diet: An Omnivore's Seasonal Feast
Grizzly bears are opportunistic omnivores, eating salmon, berries, roots, moths, and ungulate calves. Here is their seasonal diet and hyperphagia cycle.
Brown Bear Diet: From Salmon to Roots
Brown bears eat 80% plants: berries, nuts, roots. Coastal Alaskan bears gorge on 40 kg of salmon per day. Full diet by region, season, and subspecies.
How Do Pandas Survive on Bamboo?
Pandas extract only 17% of bamboo calories and have 40% lower metabolism than similar-sized mammals. How evolution built a bear that lives like a sloth.
November 2024
Sun Bear Diet: Honey, Termites, and Climbing Skills
Sun bears eat honey, termites, ants, figs, and durian fruit, using a 25 cm tongue and razor claws. Full diet, seasonal mast cycles, and forest seed-dispersal.
Spectacled Bears: A 95% Plant-Based Diet
Spectacled bears are the most herbivorous of all bears, eating 95% plants - bromeliad hearts, palm fruits, figs. The full Andean diet, season by season.
Black Bear Diet: Seasonal Eating Habits
American black bears are 85% plant-eaters: berries, acorns, insects, occasional fawns. Full seasonal diet, regional variation, and the fall hyperphagia.