Bear is a great climber. It can climb huge rocks, tall mountains, thick trees, big lamppost & pillars & as long as its grip over the wall is set. It cannot climb thin& weak stems. But whenever it finds any food or any person or its predator hidden on thin trees, then it shakes the tree violently so as to befall the person, predator, food (fruits) ants & termites etc from it.
Secondly it cannot walk on slippery stones as its nails don’t support it to from a grip there. In search of food it can even move big rocks upside down & topsy turvy to find insects residing underneath it & have a meal of such insects.
It has a great liking for honey in order to eat honey; it uses its climbing skills up to the fullest & leaves no stone unturned to have it. Whether it be huge tall threes or massive rocks, it climbs them all & tries its best to reach the spot. In the season of berry fruit, it gets through the houses via villages covering a great & long distance, to get it. It starts circumambulating the trees whole night during the season of Mahuda, black berry & Timru fruit.
Usually it starts searching for its food right from the evening and sometimes has its food throughout the day or whole night under the tree.
It eats the ants & termites residing hidden inside the barks of dried trees after climbing such trees, because of its weight the dried trees many times fells down & it too falls but that does it makes any difference to it.
Search for Water
During summer when it’s too hot, it tries to find out water and food even by digging a dried and arid rivers/ ponds up to its base in the forest areas.
It uses maximally all the naturally occurring water resources of the forest up to full extent. While going to & fro from its habitat (home) it definitely stops to drink water.
It also utilizes man made water basins, ponds, wells etc. whenever required. It enjoys sitting in the water but doesn’t remain there for long. After coming out of the water body, it doesn’t try to dry its self by brushing it off instead walk a head for circumlocution with its wet body.
It drinks water remaining at the steps of the pond but sometimes its goes inside the pond with its half body outside and half inside. It remains quite alert while drinking water. Only with a slight noise it gets freaked out and runs from there.
It focuses much towards the steps while drinking water from the water basis. That is it keeps its most of the back portion inside the water and then drinks it, so that during any emergency it can walk ahead with its front portion to climb up the stairs and run away.
Likes
It likes to scratch itself against the stones and the trees by rubbing its body and satisfies its itch. Uses one and the same tree again and again for it.
To satisfy the itch of its back, its scratches its back against rocks for long time until it goes away.
It likes to dig up the termite’s hill till its depth.
Sometimes it likes to roll up in the dried mud.
Dislikes
Excessive noise
Any hurdle on it way of commuting whether it be a person, animal or insect. It’s doesn’t like anyone seeking him to meet on it way and this is the reason for occurrence of events of attacks by bear.
When the female bear is with the cub, it doesn’t like any kind of interference at that time it becomes much fierce and atrocious.
Doesn’t like any interference around its feeding place.
Knowing the presence of Bear
By knowing its pug marks (foot print)
By its droppings, according to the seasons, its droppings will have seeds of various fruits.
Sometimes many ants & other insects are found inside its droppings.
The state of stones lying upside down when it searches its food. Some fixed types of holes are dug by them and the signs of its nails tell us a lot specifically about its presence.
Marks of its nails are seen clearly on some trees, when it tries to climb them in search of its food.
Habitat of the bear
Bears significantly like to live the caves.
Amongst the caves of Ratanmahal, the main once are found at the west side of it such as cave of murai, cave of choro, suvarbaan, sunset point, ambapani. In the same way kukda pak’s cave, panam caves etc. are also included. All this caves are facing the west side.
Bears reside at the depth of these caves on flat, soft land as the height of the caves is much.
Process of self protection & attack
For self protection bear likes to run at a great speed. When in utmost danger or dread too they run with a very high speed.
Along with running, it makes a hoarse and husky sound and when finds itself safe and sound It comes back to the normal gait.
Bear attacks only when it senses a sort of danger around it on when anybody suddenly come on its way.
Firstly it stands erect on legs and then attacks via its fore limbs.
It attacks on the face of the prey by making noise and spitting and bubbling on its saliva. It doesn’t leave its enemy for a long time.
People say that if a bear confronts us any time, then we must try to threaten it by shouting aloud again and again.
Climb such a tree on which the bear cannot climb, like the trees having the diameter and thickness less than the bear’s width.
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