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Spring 2018

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brilliantbrilliantAllAll youyou needneed toto knowknow aboutaboutbears!bears! thethe bearbear family!family! FeaturingFeaturing polarpolar bears,bears, giantgiant pandas,pandas, brownbrown bearsbears andand manymany moremore wInwIn AnImal goodIes In our colourIng competItIon! Plus pawsome puzzles, furry facts, jokes wIth real bIte MEETMEET THETHE BEARSBEARS LITTLE This issue of Wild About Explorers is all about bears! Discover their Brown bear Giant panda Asian and LARGE favourite foods, find out why they sleep for months at a time, and meet LIVES: Across Europe, LIVES: Forests in China the bears that live in some of the coldest places on Earth. North America and Asia black bear The smallest ABOUT ME: I am easily Bears are found in many parts of the world, including Europe, America, LIVES: Forests in member of the ABOUT ME: I have recognised by my black South and East Asia bear family is Asia and the Arctic. They have a varied diet, depending on where they brown fur and I am and white markings. the sun bear live. Some bears eat lots of meat, but others feed mainly on plants or the only bear that ABOUT ME: I have insects. We may think of bears as big and scary, but they are usually lives in Europe. black fur and a white, from South-east quite peaceful, unless they are feeling hungry or threatened. V-shaped patch on Asia. It can reach my chest. around 1.5 metres in length – about the same as a Can you find them? grown-up THERE ARE EIGHT SPECIES OF BEAR IN THE human. WORLD, FROM THE GIANT PANDA IN THE EAST TO THE POWERFUL POLAR BEAR IN WHAT DO YOU CALL THE FAR NORTH. CAN YOU FIND ALL OF THE A BEAR THAT GETS BEARS DESCRIBED ON THE MAP BELOW? polar bear CAUGHT IN THE RAIN? A DRIZZLY BEAR! LIVES: The Arctic ABOUT ME: My coat is white, so that I blend into my snowy home. Seals are my favourite food, but I also eat reindeer and fish. The biggest type of bear is a polar bear. It can reach up to 2.5 metres tall when standing on its two feet, or 1.6 metres at American Spectacled Sloth bear shoulder height. LIVES: Forests in black bear bear South Asia sun bear LIVES: Wild parts of LIVES: The Andes LIVES: Forests in ABOUT ME: I have Canada, the United mountains in South-east Asia an all-black, shaggy DID States and Mexico South America coat and a mane of ABOUT ME: I have a YOU KNOW? ABOUT ME: Despite ABOUT ME: The fur around my face. golden or white curved Paddington Bear my name, I can be ginger markings patch on my chest. I like is from Peru in black, brown or on my face can to eat the honey from South America – even silver-grey. sometimes make it bees’ nests – as well so he must be a look as if I wear glasses! as the bees! spectacled bear.

2 3 True or False? THE REAL WINNIE- 1. Brown bears can eat as much 3. Brown bears can only stand as 20,000 calories a day (you on four legs, not two. THE-POOH! would have to eat 40 Big Macs True  False  to get the same amount). True  False  4. A brown bear The Winnie-the-Pooh can go without doing stories were inspired 2. Brown bears are a poo for more than by a real bear called afraid of water. half a year. Winnie, who lived at ALL ABOUT… True  False  True  False  ZSL London Zoo many years ago. The real Winnie was a black bear from Canada – and she was a girl, not a boy. She belonged to HOW DO BEARS DID YOU KEEP THEIR DENS COOL a soldier called Harry. BROWNBROWN BEARSBEARS KNOW?

IN SUMMER? Harry asked the Zoo The brown bear is one of the world’s most widespread land The grizzly bear is a THEY USE BEAR to look after Winnie type of brown bear animals. It lives in forests, mountains, ice fields and even CONDITIONING! in 1914 when he went that is found in off to fight in World deserts across Europe, Asia and North America. North America. War I. A boy called Christopher Robin Milne visited Winnie Saving energy SPOT THE DIFFERENCE and loved her so much that he gave his Brown bears and other species of bear that Female bears give birth during the winter teddy the same name! live in colder countries often hibernate during months and the cubs live on their mother’s Christopher Robin’s winter, when there is not a lot to eat. They hide milk. Can you spot the five differences between dad, AA Milne, wrote in a cave or burrow to doze through the cold these pictures of a brown bear and her the Winnie-the-Pooh weather. Their heartbeat slows down and their cubs in their den? books for his son. body gets slightly cooler. In the spring, they come out of their den and start looking for food.

LOOK OUT FOR THE STATUE OF WINNIE AND HARRY AT ZSL LONDON ZOO

Keep an eye out for our group of brown bears at ZSL Whipsnade Zoo! They love to play in their outdoor pool, and they are good

at sniffing out food treats that the zookeepers have hidden.

true – but only during hibernation. during only but – true

often good at swimming and fishing; 3. false – bears stand on their hind legs to look around; 4. 4. around; look to legs hind their on stand bears – false 3. fishing; and swimming at good often

1. true; 2. false – they are are they – false 2. true; 1. False?: or True to Answers missing. is bat missing; paw a has

in front of him are missing; smallest bear has eaten fish and gone to sleep; bear on the right right the on bear sleep; to gone and fish eaten has bear smallest missing; are him of front in

Rock on the left is missing; second bear on the left and rock rock and left the on bear second missing; is left the on Rock Difference: the Spot to Answers

4 5 SNACKINGSNACKING WITHWITH SLOTHSLOTH BEARSBEARS COLOURING CHALLENGE! The sloth bear is the only member of the bear family that gIant panda feeds mainly on insects. Its long, curved claws are perfect for The giant panda lives in the bamboo forests of central China. ripping open anthills and termite mounds! It also eats eggs, Baby pandas can stay with their mum for up to three years. DID honey, plants, fruit, flowers and dead meat. Can you colour in this picture of a giant panda cub? YOU KNOW? DID A PANDA CAN SPEND UP TO YOU KNOW? 14 HOURS A DAY EATING ITS THE SLOTH BEARS AT H O N E Y K N T FAVOURITE FOOD, BAMBOO ZSL WHIPSNADE ZOO SHOOTS. IT POOS MORE LOVE SNACKING ON X W L G M F F E THAN 100 TIMES HONEYCOMB! Z U X G E R L R A DAY! Can you help the sloth bear A V J S A U O M find some of its favourite DID foods in this word search? J R A X T I W I DID

YOU KNOW? ANTS FRUIT B E E S N T E T YOU KNOW? A SLOTH BEAR CAN CLOSE EGGS BEES O J A N T S R E PANDAS MARK THEIR TURF BY ITS NOSTRILS COMPLETELY SO HONEY FLOWERS RUBBING THEIR SCENT ON TREES, THAT IT DOESN’T GET DUST L L W L R X S S ROCKS AND THE GROUND. ONE OR INSECTS IN ITS NOSE TERMITES MEAT PANDA WAS SPOTTED DOING A WHILE DIGGING. HANDSTAND TO PEE HIGH UP ON A TREE!

YOU DIDKNOW? THE PANDA HAS AN EXTRA BONE ON EACH PAW, WHICH IS A BIT LIKE A THUMB. THIS HELPS IT HOLD ONTO A B C BAMBOO SHOOTS. POLARPOLAR EXPRESSEXPRESS Polar bears are born on the land, but spend most of their time on the floating ice on Arctic seas. Can you help the polar bear find a route across the ice to get to the cub? DID YOU DID YOU NEWBORNKNOW? POLAR BEAR CUBS Once you’ve coloured in EVA’S BAT Thank you to KNOW? ARE ABOUT THE SAME SIZE AS A your picture, do send it to us. everyone who GUINEA PIG. THEY SOON GROW WIN! The best entry will win some entered our POLAR BEARS HAVE BLACK

A fantastic goodies from the ZSL bat colouring BIGGER THANKS TO THEIR SKIN UNDER THEIR WHITE FUR. store at shop.zsl.org. Post your entry to us at competition – THIS HELPS THEM TO SOAK UP MOTHER’S MILK. THE SUN’S HEAT AND Wild About, ZSL London Zoo, Regent’s Park, we loved seeing KEEP WARM. London NW1 4RY, or email a snap of it to all the entries! [email protected], with your name, age and Congratulations to WHAT DO address. Be sure to send it by 30 June 2018 our overall winner, POLAR BEARS HAVE to be in with a chance of winning. Eva Budd (aged 10). FOR DINNER? Express: Polar Answer to BRRRRRR-GERS!

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