For example, polar bears eat mostly seals, and pandas spend 10 to 16 hours per day eating bamboo. Termites are the primary food of sloth bears, which have long noses that allow them to suck ...

What are sloth bears? Sloth bears are a type of bear native to India, Sri Lanka and Nepal that eat termites and ants, according to the Smithsonian's National Zoo and Conservation Biology Institute.

Vertebrate-eating bears, in contrast, have higher basal rates, even when denning. The thick fur coat of the sloth bear may partly compensate for its low basal rate. All differences in basal rate among ...

Grizzly bears can eat for 20 hours straight The Wonder of Animals A single polar bear’s range can span 300,000 square kilometres; the size of the United Kingdom and Ireland combined.