Coastal [brown bears] emerge from their dens in March, April, or May, often with snow still on the ground.... By August the bears are eating as much as 90 pounds [41 kilograms] of food a day to prepare for their winter sleep. Cubs, usually twins, are born in the den in January or February; they stay with their mother for two or three years. She teaches them to fish, forage, hunt, and defend themselves.
(Text from the National Geographic book Alaska's Wildlife Treasures, 1994, and photograph from the National Geographic book Wild Animals of North America, 1979)
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