Ahead of their 5 to 8 month long hibernation, these large omnivores stock up all manner of on food including berries, leaves, nuts, fish, fungi, small rodents, moose, elk, grass and even insects. It can take between 2 and 4 years before mothers wean their cubs off their milk. They are considered excellent diggers, skilled swimmers and can run at speeds of nearly 50km an hour. These bears are still found from Northern Manitoba and Nunavut west to the Pacific coast. However, the Canadian government considers the Grizzly population once found in Quebec and Labrador extinct as they have not been seen since 1948.