!!!Braunbär

Brown Bear, used caves as sleeping and dying places during the Ice 
Age, when it was already hunted by man. Was very common during the 
Middle Ages and until the 18%%sup th/%  century, as proved by numerous 
names of villages and towns in Lower Austria, Styria and Carinthia. 
The last brown bear in Lower Austria was killed in 1816 near 
Lilienfeld (hide is kept at Lilienfeld monastery). In the Central 
Alps, the last brown bear was killed in North Tirol in 1904. Since the 
1980s, a new brown bear population has been steadily growing: In 1985, 
a brown bear was discovered in the Oetscher mountain region, and the 
WWF released three bears in 1989. Some brown bears came to Austria 
from Slovenia. There are currently about 20-25 brown bears living in 
Austria in an area stretching from Carinthia and Styria up to the 
region of the Oetscher and Hochschwab mountains in Lower Austria. The 
brown bear is the largest predatory animal in Austria. It is an 
omnivore; the male bear is considerably larger than the female. Brown 
bears can live to the age of 40.


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