1.   The female bear has left her young in a desperate search for food.

2.   Female bears tend to line their dens with leaves or grass.

3.   Each female bears one baby, and the mothers nest together underneath the loose bark of dead trees.

4.   Female bears defend their cubs.

5.   Sherpa and Moktan lived with another female bear, Tenzing, and none had ever bred together.

6.   Female bears give birth to and suckle their cubs without waking up.

7.   Female bears tend to stay in their lairs in January when nursing their cubs, making them sitting targets.

8.   Hunters in southeastern Finland felled a female bear Thursday which mauled a jogger to death the night before near the Russian border, police said.

9.   It is against state law to shoot a bear in its den, because female bears found in dens during hunting season are usually pregnant.

10.   Local hunters chased the male bear out of their settlement and later found the dead body of a female bear in the forest.