Six-legged Bears

These bears are huge, fast, and omnivorous. Like frogs they hibernate for nearly half the year, and then emerge to hunt. The six-legged bears are in one of the highest positions in the food chain. They have at any one time four legs and two arm to use; standing on its hind legs it can employ four arms at once.  They are ambidextrous which gives them the advantage of being able to attack and defend itself from any side of its body.  The bears usually walk on the back four legs and use the front two as arms to eat, kill, and preform other daily tasks.  Rodents, plants and deer mainly make up the diet of the bears, but they are also expert at catching fish.  They are solitary animals, with each single bear claiming several miles of territory.  With no predators other than Vampire beatles.  Bears' numbers remain low due only to their rarely bearing more than two cubs in a lifetime.  Over time the bears have evolved to know not to eat the carnivorous plants.  Occasionaly a bear will not inherit the "Don't Eat Those Plants" gene and he will fall victim to the plant.

As well as helping to keep down populations of deer, rodents, fish and various plants, bears also provide homes for other animals --especially rodents. Never spending two winters in the same place, their abandoned burrows become the habitats of beavers and other smaller mammals. Bears consume so many different organisms that their extinction would, at least temporarily affect nearly the entire system.The fish population would be most effected by the extinction of the bears. The bears prey on the fish more than any other organism does, and the fish population would become too big and eventuly kill themselves if gone unchecked. If the fish population had no predators, the numbers of fish would overwhelm the food source. All the plants would get eaten, there would be no producer of disolved oxegen, and the fish would unintentionally suffocate themselves. Deer are one of the largest consumers of the plants and if the bears were no longer in the ecosystem, the number of deer would explode and the deer would consume plants at a rate which the smart plants could not even keep up with. Eventualy the deer would decimate the plant population if the bears did not eat them.