/r/bears
What kind of bear is best?
This is the home to all eight species of bears - American Black Bears, Brown Bears, Polar Bears, Asiatic Black (Moon) Bears, Sun Bears, Sloth Bears, Giant Pandas, and Spectacled (Andean) Bears.
"Bears are made of the same dust as we, and breathe the same winds and drink of the same waters. A bear's days are warmed by the same sun, his dwellings are overdomed by the same blue sky, and his life turns and ebbs with heart-pulsings like ours, and was poured from the same First Fountain. And whether he at last goes to our stingy heaven or no, he has terrestrial immortality. His life not long, not short, knows no beginning, no ending."
What kind of bear is best?
This is the home to all eight species of bears - American Black Bears, Brown Bears, Polar Bears, Asiatic Black (Moon) Bears, Sun Bears, Sloth Bears, Giant Pandas, and Spectacled (Andean) Bears.
Read our Community Rules!
Be excellent to one another, be respectful, be kind, be one with the bears.
Set your own flair by clicking (edit flair) next to your username!
Information
- Bears of the World
- Bear Smart at Home
- Travelling in Bear Country
- Staying Safe Around Bears
- Video: Staying Safe in Bear Country
- How to Use Bear Spray
Did You Know?
Six species of bears are classified as Vulnerable by the IUCN Red List, even the least concern species, Brown Bears, are at risk of extirpation in some countries.
Some Bear Videos
Bear Subreddits
- BearAttacks
- BearCubGifs
- BearWithAView
- BearsDoingHumanThings
- BearJokes
- BearsWaving
- GrizzlyBears
- Panda
- PolarBears
Related Subreddits
/r/bears
46,061 Subscribers
Wheres the snow?
10:43 UTC
Can someone let me know what kind of bear this is? Seen in Azusa, CA
09:04 UTC
Sun Bears- the worlds smallest bears
14:50 UTC
Little Winston is growing up so fast!
As always - not my photo. Winston currently resides at Black Bear Rescue Manitoba and I'm just stealing Winston's pictures from their Instagram.
04:32 UTC
Strange fat bird
Large unidentified wingless bird in Connecticut.
01:52 UTC
Spectacled bear and cub
00:50 UTC
Barentshavet
From 2022 season april 6
19:27 UTC
Is this close enough?
12:03 UTC
Every year polar bears from northern Labrador make their way down to the south coast of Labrador and northern Newfoundland around this time of year
04:13 UTC
Bear Documentaries
Do y'all know of any good bear documentaries? I recently watched the episode of Animal (Narrated by David Harbour) and I wanna watch more but I don't know where to start.
Much love y'all! <3
02:32 UTC
Cub w/ sow who has a tore up hind end. Second time I've seen this. Is this fairly normal?
11:26 UTC
Sun bear Borneo
12:58 UTC
Happy Bear Day everyone!
11:27 UTC
Meals on wheels
21:50 UTC
Indian Sloth Bear on the run
15:15 UTC
Just chilling
23:06 UTC
A photo I took of a massive brown bear.
16:16 UTC
Spotted in Hokkaido yesterday. I guess it’s an ussuri brown bear.
05:43 UTC
A mum and her little ones. Spirit bears (or Kermode bears) are black bears that have a rare recessive gene that makes their fur cream-coloured, they are found only in British Columbia’s coastal Great Bear Rainforest in Canada.
12:21 UTC
Bear Cubs In A Tree [@bodkinsbestphotography][4K][Vancouver][OC]
23:32 UTC
Momma black bear and her babies
22:55 UTC
Black or griz and why?
22:59 UTC
Does this look like a grizzly or brown black bear to you?
EDIT: Case closed! It's almost certainly a cinnamon black bear standing with one shoulder elevated.
This is the picture in question (and the 4 following it).
I was scrolling through pictures on Flickr, when I noticed that picture was taken at Crane Flats in Yosemite National Park in 2010.
To my understanding, black bears are the only officially recognized bear in the area, and have been for nearly a century... so I'd normally just chalk it up to a brown black bear, but the pronounced shoulder hump makes me second guess that thought.
16:49 UTC
Kodiak Brown Bear looking all around for more berries [OC]
19:28 UTC