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Really serious business goes on at the viewing ground, there were 8 degrees of frost in the forest in the morning. Fat reserves must all be got in place under the skin. A fox – because they move alone on their territory -, a raccoon dog gang, wild boars, all visit the site but it is sensible for all to fear the bear. According to huntsmen animals are very well-fed this year.

 

At the end of October brown bears become more stationary, in the area where they intend to spend their winter sleep. Eating is necessary, as richly as possible, so that fat reserves will last until spring. In October sometimes a hoofed animal is killed or they feast on „cadavers“ – the autumn hunting season continues and the observant ravens reveal such spots for the forest inhabitants.

 

Let us try to visualise the autumn food need of a brown bear: about 20 000 kilocalories must be consumed per day: around 400 apples make up such an amount. The weight of adult brown bears increases with roughly 400 grams per day on such a diet..