Asiatic Black Bear Diet and Skeleton

Asiatic black bears are omnivores. They eat insects, small mammals and birds, carrion and fruits.
In autumn they will visit nut producing trees, where they eat nuts from platforms they make in the trees.
They have a long gut for digesting grass. Their barrel shaped body tells us that they have a long intestine. They have a simple intestinal tract.
Their molars are broad and flat. They have 42 teeth. They have all their permanent teeth by the time the bear is two and a half years old.


Asiatic black bears have massive skulls. Their skulls are usually long and they are wide across the forehead with protruding eye brow ridges.
The size, shape, use of teeth and jaw muscles influence the size and shape of the bears head.
They have a large jawbone hinge and their molars are wide and flat.
A bear has a similar arm structure to that of a man and a bird.
A bear has a barrel shaped body.

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