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1. Animals.

Bear.

What family of mammals are wears?
Which continents bears are found?
Bears have plantigrade paws with five claws. Are these claws retractile or not?
Are bears typically animals living in groups or are they solitaries?
Do bears sleep during the winter or are they active?

2. Animals where I live.


The wild boar is typical animal in Catalonia.
- Do you know if they are birds or mammals?
- How many piglets have a wild boar for once?

There are also quite foxes.
- What characteristic adjective is used to refer to somebody comparing him with a fox?
- Is this animal nocturnal or diurnal?
- Is a big or small animal?


3. Folk stories

I found this page: http://www.planetozkids.com/oban/legends.htm
The page is dedicated to kids. They like stories and animals a lot, of course.


Answers:
1. About bears:

- Ursidae.
- Europe, Asia, North America and South America.
- They are nonretractile claws.
- Bears are typically solitaries, excepting mothers with their young.
- Not really. Many bears of northern hemisphere sleep during the winter and they don’t wake during all the period but it is not true hibernation. In true hibernators, body temperatures drop to near ambient and heart rate slows drastically. In bears, the body temperature drops only a few degrees from normal and heart rate slows only slightly.

2. About typical animals in Catalonia.

- It is a mammal like a pig.
- It depends. A female wild boar can have from two to more than 5.

- Clever, for example, but also some other.
- It is typically nocturnal.
- It is medium size. It is a bit big than a cat but small than many dogs