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What do grizzly bears eat (the Ursus arctos horribilis), will be determined largely by the time of year. Grizzly bears are omnivores – and with very large appetites.

In regards to what do grizzly bears eat, let’s start with the meat and fish. They will eat fish such as salmon and spawning cutthroat trout. They enjoy the carcasses of hoofed animals such as the elk, bison or moose. They may also hunt down these larger hoofed animals. For speed, the grizzly bear was blessed with very large withers and huge muscles in their front legs and chest. These attributes also assist in the digging of large holes in the ground in search of the ground squirrel and also for making their winter den.

What do grizzly bears eat can also be in the form of a vegetarian diet. Berries, and…

lots of them per season are consumed by each bear. One bear can eat up to two hundred thousand berries in a 24 hour period. Wowza. There are the buffaloberries – their main berry diet, huckleberries, blueberries crowberries, mountain ash berry and the low bush cranberry.

What do grizzly bears eat will also include grasses, bulbs, weeds, roots and nuts. A favorite one is called the hedysarum root – termed “bear root”, and nuts from the whitebark pine tree. Weeds such as the bistort, dandelion, thistle, fireweed and clover. Popular grasses such as the Spring Beauty, Glacier Lily, Cow Parsnip and Valerian. A popular primitive plant that is high in protein is the: horsetail and they also enjoy the mushroom.

And finally, what do grizzly bears eat can be answered with one more word, garbage. Grizzly bears do prefer to stay away from humans, although if hungry enough they will forage through our dumps. This is another good reason why we should only put garbage in the garbage and not toxic waste and hazardous materials such as broken glass.

What’s in your garbage today?

Peace.