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How Bears Adapt To Their Environment
Bears, to some people, look as if they are going to kill them, and have a lot of hate for humans. But in reality they are like any other animal that lives in the forest, they mind their own business, crazy right. So just because a bear looks as if they are going to harm somebody or something, they are not, they’re just minding their own business.
Every bear adapts to their environment differently. Beas adapt differently to their environment depending on their fur. But the way some bears adapt to their environment is hibernating during the cold winter, and when they finish hibernating their claws and arms grow stronger so they are able to dig for their food in the log and dirt. The bear's claws are sharp and curved so they are able to catch their food,such as fish, in the water.
The bears ancestor are Dogs, racoons, pinniped (which are walrus and seals). It’s crazy to think that these big bears are related to all these species. The bears that were first on this world looked like racoons. Bears never started off as big organisms, they were small and didn’t really care for what things around them were doing. Racoons, to this day, still are on earth, as well as dogs, and pinnipeds. Over time they eventually grew into something big.
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Most of the dog-like bears, back in the old times, had moved to different parts of the world, like North America. Ever since then they have been migrating into different places such as, South America, Asia, Europe, and the Northern Hemisphere. The bear changed the way they look by the different environment they go adapted in. For example the Polar Bear, they are now used to the cold weather because some of the dog-like creatures migrated to the colder area where there is not much

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