Other animals are also known to wreak havoc on anthills, so a destroyed anthill is not always a sign of a bear's presence. The bear might leave behind a destroyed anthill or tree stump. As an omnivorous animal the bear eats berries, vegetables and insects as well as meat. The bear rarely leaves clearly visible signs on blueberry heaths or other similar places, but on occasion one may find evidence of a bear feeding on blueberry or lingonberry bushes. Dirt roads and ditches are good places for searching for bear tracks. As a heavy animal the bear cannot keep jumping for long so it will begin to gallop as soon as possible.įinding bear tracks in the summer time is not easy, even if you know that a bear lives in the area. The length of these jumping steps varies between 150 and 250 cm depending on the size of the bear and the type of the terrain. The bear accelerates to gallop speed by jumping, which leaves pairs of jumping tracks on the ground.
A galloping bear will leave a typical galloping track where the other fore and hind leg hit the same spot. When chasing prey or escaping, the bear will gallop. If the snow begins to support the bear's weight, it reverts back to its usual gait. On soft and sinking terrain (such as deep snow) the bear walks with its legs clearly spread and places its fore and hind legs in the same tracks. On hard terrain the bear usually walks with narrow steps. The width of a bear's step varies widely. The bear often places its fore legs slightly inwards and its hind legs straight forward. The length of a bear's walking step is 90–140 cm. When a bear walks, its hind leg hits the ground in front of the fore paw print, which creates tracks that resemble the footprints of a human walking without shoes. The bear usually moves by walking, i.e., it moves with at least one paw on the ground at any one time.
The bear's hindpaw print is 18–25 cm long without the claws. The forepaw prints of females, young males and cubs are under 13 cm wide. If the forepaw print is over 13 cm wide, the animal is almost always an adult male. The print of a bear's forepaw is 12–15 cm long without the claws. The impressions left by the bear's five toes and claws are often visible in its paw prints. When the bear is moving across a harder surface, the heel's impression may not be visible, which makes the bear's forepaw print short and wide. The bear is a plantigrade, which means the impression of its heel is most often visible in the paw print. The impression left by the bear's foot is slightly wider and more triangular than a human footprint. The paw print of a bear's hindpaw slightly resembles the footprint of a human. The bear has the largest tracks of all of Finland's native species. Large carnivore authorities in Finland +.Large carnivores in populated areas & road accidents +.Reindeer herding and large carnivores +.Estimating the numbers of large carnivores +.EU and the conservation of large carnivores +.The Nature Conservation Act and Decree +.Management plan for the Finnish wolverine population +.Management plan for the Finnish lynx population +.Management plan for the Finnish wolf population +.Management plan for the Finnish brown bear population +.
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