The bear is the largest predator of the mammalian animal class. He has a furry barrel-shaped body, wide powerful legs with long claws, a huge forehead with an elongated muzzle and a mouth with large movable lips.
Any athlete can envy his ability to skillfully climb trees. Bears vary greatly in size, color and habitat. By the way, although their habitat is diverse, in most cases a bear is a forest resident.
Dinner is served
Contrary to their impressive size, clubfoots lead an almost herbivorous lifestyle: they eat berries, cereals, roots, nuts and other plant foods. Of course, the bear’s favorite treat is honey. The beast will do everything to get to it, even endure the attack of ferocious bees. Perhaps the only clubfoot who is faithful to his predatory lifestyle is a polar bear. His diet is mainly composed of seals.
Winter sleep
In winter, bears fall into suspended animation, or hibernation. This is a state of deep sleep, accompanied by a significant decrease in body temperature, heart rate and breathing. Hibernation of a bear is a peculiar measure of protecting an animal from cold and long winters. Some bears, before going on a "winter vacation", build a lair for themselves. For example, brown bears do this from different branches and branches, while white ones simply dig a hole in the snow. A bear who did not fall asleep in the winter for one reason or another poses a serious danger to humans. Such a beast becomes an extremely aggressive and merciless predator, since winter hunger and cold make themselves felt immediately.
Why is this happening?
Cranks are called those bears that have not hibernated since the fall due to insufficient accumulated fat. After all, it is the supply of fat that allows a predator to fall into a winter sleep for many months, without thinking about the severe frosts and endless hunger. The connecting rod bear is forced to wander through the woods all winter in search of food. But, as you know, in the winter there are no berries, roots and honey, therefore the only way to survive is to hunt, including humans. During this period, he attacks anyone who he meets on the way - even his own brothers! A connecting rod bear, deprived of severe hunger from caution and a sense of danger, makes forays into villages and towns, where livestock are bullied and even burst into people's homes. Often he leaves the forest belt in the city. Fortunately, reports of such animals usually do not take long, and people, aware of the danger, prepare to meet with the beast several hours before its appearance.
How to protect yourself from the attack of the connecting rod bear
It’s best to try to avoid such meetings altogether, but as they say, “I would know where you would fall …”. Remember that the rules of safe behavior when meeting with an ordinary bear do not apply to the connecting rod! The only way to survive after such a meeting, for example, in the forest, is to shoot a predator. Escaping from an aggressive beast is almost impossible, for at least two reasons. Firstly, bears that seem clumsy can easily gain speed up to 40-60 km per hour at a short distance. Secondly, the connecting rod bear will easily take a connecting rod bear for its prey, and even more so in a hurry to catch up with it and bully it. It is worth noting that not every bear wandering through the winter forest is a connecting rod. Quite often, animals are simply disturbed by hunters or lumberjacks. In this case, the disturbed predator, after wandering through the forest for several days, finds itself another place for hibernation.
Statistics is a stubborn thing
Interestingly, cedar crop failure occurs in Eastern Siberia about once every 10 years. It is then that the so-called "bear year" comes when the connecting rods begin to terrorize the local population. But for the European part of Russia, a connecting rod bear is an exceptional rarity, because there is much more plant food on these lands, which almost always excludes the possibility of crop failure.
