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Many Bears-Idaho Style Some updated information about bears has been made available to us. The activity, as it is written, is for bears that live in Arizona. Since Idaho bears don't have nuts available to eat, they eat other foods, and much more of them. The average Idaho bear will eat 20-25 pounds of food a day - that's 250 pounds in a ten day period. The breakdown is as follows:
While keeping the activity as intact as possible the following numbers of cards and their value should be used:
This may stimulate an excellent discussion of how animals adopt to different food types in different environments. Why do Arizona bears require only 80 pounds of food in 10 days and Idaho bears require 250 pounds in the same period? How would the requirements differ in Alaska? Or Michigan? Nuts provide excellent nutrition so much that 80 pounds of food would be equivalent to 250 pounds of food in value. This even causes cubs to mature more rapidly. For example, in Pennsylvania, a one-year-old cub may go into the den weighing 100 pounds. In Idaho, that 100 pound cub would be three years old. One other point to remember on all these figures is bears generally eat nothing but grass in spring and summer, berries in the fall, and the other food items become interspersed in the diet throughout the year. |