--- title: Bears up close: noses, claws, dens, the honey myth and bear safety — a lesson of Mova's school · trees and pragmatics description: «Bears up close: noses, claws, dens, the honey myth and bear safety», a lesson of the biology course of Mova's primary school, sentence by sentence with dependency trees and pragmatics. It begins: A bear lives by its nose. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/320-bears-up-close-noses-claws-dens-the-honey-myth-and-bear-safety/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Biology](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/) / Bears up close: noses, claws, dens, th… # Bears up close: noses, claws, dens, the honey myth and bear safety Lesson 320 of the biology course of Mova's primary school: 19 sentences, each with its syntax tree and pragmatics. The lessons are written for Mova, and their agreed trees are part of Mova corpus 0.4 (CC BY-SA 4.0). How Mova does on its tests: [the lesson at school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/biology/320-bears-up-close-noses-claws-dens-the-honey-myth-and-bear-safety/). - [0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/320-bears-up-close-noses-claws-dens-the-honey-myth-and-bear-safety/0/) — A bear lives by its nose. - [1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/320-bears-up-close-noses-claws-dens-the-honey-myth-and-bear-safety/1/) — It lifts its head into the wind and reads the air the way you read a book, smelling food, cubs and danger far away. - [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/320-bears-up-close-noses-claws-dens-the-honey-myth-and-bear-safety/2/) — It walks flat on the whole sole of its foot like we do, with five long claws on each paw that never pull in, and it spends winter in a den, sleeping off the hungry months. - [3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/320-bears-up-close-noses-claws-dens-the-honey-myth-and-bear-safety/3/) — Cartoons give bears a honey pot, but real bears raid bees' nests as much for the fat juicy grubs as for the honey, and most bears eat far more berries and roots than meat. - [4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/320-bears-up-close-noses-claws-dens-the-honey-myth-and-bear-safety/4/) — Bears are wonderful to see from far away and dangerous up close. - [5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/320-bears-up-close-noses-claws-dens-the-honey-myth-and-bear-safety/5/) — Where bears live, people follow the rangers' rules: keep food locked away, make noise on trails, stay together and never run. - [6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/320-bears-up-close-noses-claws-dens-the-honey-myth-and-bear-safety/6/) — A bear's sense of smell is one of the best of any animal, said to be several times better than a bloodhound's; the inside of its nose has a huge folded area full of smell sensors, and a polar bear is reported to smell a seal from more than a kilometre away. - [7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/320-bears-up-close-noses-claws-dens-the-honey-myth-and-bear-safety/7/) — Bears have five toes with a claw on each paw, twenty claws in all, and the claws do not pull in like a cat's. - [8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/320-bears-up-close-noses-claws-dens-the-honey-myth-and-bear-safety/8/) — Grizzly claws can be about 10 centimetres long for digging, while black bears have shorter, curved claws for climbing. - [9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/320-bears-up-close-noses-claws-dens-the-honey-myth-and-bear-safety/9/) — Bears walk on the whole sole of the foot, like us, which gives them balance and lets them stand on two legs; but a bear's biggest toe is on the outside of its foot, the opposite of ours. - [10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/320-bears-up-close-noses-claws-dens-the-honey-myth-and-bear-safety/10/) — Bears dig winter dens under tree roots, in hillsides or under snow; inside, black bears can go months without eating, drinking, peeing or pooing, and their bodies recycle waste into useful protein, scientists reported. - [11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/320-bears-up-close-noses-claws-dens-the-honey-myth-and-bear-safety/11/) — A bear's winter sleep is lighter than a dormouse's: its body cools only a few degrees and it can wake fast, while a dormouse cools almost to the temperature of its nest; whether to call the bear's sleep true hibernation is still argued. - [12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/320-bears-up-close-noses-claws-dens-the-honey-myth-and-bear-safety/12/) — Bear cubs are born in the den in midwinter, tiny and blind, often under half a kilogram, and grow fast on rich milk before spring; a newborn giant panda is about a thousand times lighter than its mother. - [13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/320-bears-up-close-noses-claws-dens-the-honey-myth-and-bear-safety/13/) — Real bears raid bees' nests for the grubs as much as for the honey, because the grubs are full of protein and fat; thick fur protects most of the bear from stings, but not its nose. - [14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/320-bears-up-close-noses-claws-dens-the-honey-myth-and-bear-safety/14/) — Most bears eat mostly plants, such as berries, roots, nuts and grass; a grizzly in late summer is reported to eat many thousands of berries a day, and only the polar bear eats mostly meat. - [15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/320-bears-up-close-noses-claws-dens-the-honey-myth-and-bear-safety/15/) — Where bears live, the rules are to keep food and rubbish in bear-proof boxes, never feed a bear, make noise on trails and stay with the group. - [17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/320-bears-up-close-noses-claws-dens-the-honey-myth-and-bear-safety/17/) — If you see a bear: stay calm, keep far away, never run, stay with the grown-ups and follow the rangers' advice; running can make a bear chase, and bears can run about 50 kilometres an hour, faster than any person. - [18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/320-bears-up-close-noses-claws-dens-the-honey-myth-and-bear-safety/18/) — Most bears avoid people and leave if they hear them coming. - [19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/320-bears-up-close-noses-claws-dens-the-honey-myth-and-bear-safety/19/) — Climbing a tree is not a safe escape, because black bears climb very well and young brown bears can too; advice for meeting a bear differs for each kind of bear, so park rangers explain it for their area. - ← previous: [Bears by kind: the eight bears of the world](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/319-bears-by-kind-the-eight-bears-of-the-world/) - next →: [Big snakes: pythons, boas and anacondas, and how big they really get](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/321-big-snakes-pythons-boas-and-anacondas-and-how-big-they-really-get/) - ↑ back to [Biology](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/)