What is the life cycle of a bear?
The bear's life cycle is to just grow bigger. They are born alive.
Polar bear cubs stay with their moms until 2 years have passed. When a polar bear is a baby, it is small enough to be held in a hand. First it drinks its mother's milk, then it starts eating other things and leaves the den. Then it becomes an adult. The adult starts the life cycle all over. |
When a cub is two months old it can walk. When they are two years old they are able to live by themselves. When they are three months old they can catch a seal. When they are eight years old they can have a baby.
A mother bear teaches its cub how to live. The polar bear cubs are born in the winter. When spring arrives they leave their den. |
By: Justin, Lyrical, Rackley and Se'lah
Our sources:
National Geographic Kids: First Big Book of Animals by Catherine D. Hughes
Baby Bears by Bobbie Kalman
Polar Bears and Their Cubs by Downs Matthews
How Animals Live by Bernard Stonehouse
Bears by Donald Olson
"Amazing Animals: Black Bears" database; May 29, 2013
Baby Bears by Bobbie Kalman
Polar Bears and Their Cubs by Downs Matthews
How Animals Live by Bernard Stonehouse
Bears by Donald Olson
"Amazing Animals: Black Bears" database; May 29, 2013