A grizzly bear shakes itself as it comes out of the water at Madrid's zoo on July 7, 2010 on a hot summer day. (Dani Pozo/AFP/Getty Images)
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Most grizzly bear cubs are dark brown when they are born, and stay dark colored through their first summer. Cubs often have a white chevron around their necks.
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Brown Bear spring cubs, watching momma fish, Silver Salmon Creek Lodge, Lake Clark N. Pk, AK Arthur Morris/BIRDS AS ART
Red pandas are just about the cutest thing ever. These guys are native to the forests in the Himalayas, and there are only 10,000 to 20,000 of them worldwide. In the past they had been misclassified as being in the same families as raccoons and bears, but have recently been reclassified in a family all their own; they are considered “living fossils”, which means they’re more closely related to animals found in fossils than any living species. The people native to the red panda’s region call them “Wha” after the sound they make. They are slightly bigger than a house cat and eat a diet of mostly bamboo shoots and leaves. They spend most of the day time napping in the tree tops, and are most active at dusk and dawn.