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According to the hunters, they have no doubt that the traces found belong to the brown bear; there are no more animals in Lithuania that leave such traces.
Although it is traditionally said that the brown bear does not live permanently in Lithuania and only bumps into neighboring Latvia and Belarus, in recent years something else has been seen.
According to the website raudonojiknyga.lt, the brown bear is widespread in the areas and mountains of the Eurasian and North American forests and in partially forest-sensitive areas. The most common subspecies are the Eurasian brown bear and the brown bear, which live in Europe, Asia, and North America. In many European countries (except in the northern part of Russia), the species have become extinct or only small isolated populations have survived, mainly in the mountains. Lives permanently in Latvia, Belarus, Poland.
Loves large mixed forests with streams, squares, wetlands, bushes, and berries. For the winter, they sleep in groves, installed in remote places under windbreaks, piles of branches, in densities of fir trees. Lives alone, except during reproduction and breeding. It rains most often in May-June. Pregnancy lasts 6 to 8 months. The female weans 1 to 4 (usually 2) young in January-February, suckling for up to 4 months. In the spring, they can already follow their mother. The female that raises the young no longer has young. The next winter, the cubs spend with their mother and begin to live alone only in their second year. Sexually mature at the age of 3 to 5 years.
I thought of a wide variety of plant and animal foods: juicy plant parts, fruits, berries, rhizomes, oak acorns, nuts, ants and their young, worms, insects and their larvae, bird eggs, and chicks. He loves to eat oatmeal and corn. Often times, large wild animals, domestic animals and bee hives are also slaughtered.
In Lithuania, the brown bear disappeared in the 19th century. in the second half, now he does not live permanently. During the last 3-4 decades, isolated specimens have been observed in the districts of Biržai, Panevėžys, Ukmergė, Utena, Ignalina, Alytus, Švenčionys, Varėna, Vilnius and Jurbarkas.
Brown bear traces
© Photo of the organization
In the past, bears also lived in Lithuania, but with the increase in population density and the development of animal husbandry, bears began to be hunted as predators, harming domestic animals. This is one of the reasons why they started to decline. Also, many bears have been deforested due to deforestation in the 17th and 18th centuries.
19th century in the second half, the bears remained only in wooded areas. Lithuanian naturalist Tadas Ivanauskas points out that the last bear in Lithuania was shot in 1883. In the village of Musteika, Varėna district.
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