BEAR (black/brown) Habitat: Forest Seeks Out: Honey Diet: Omnivorous Size: Medium Description The most common sort of bear has no love of man, and will usually flee at his approach. Black and brown bears' favorite habitations are those places where forests (with good hunting) abut low, rocky hills (which provide caves or othersafe dens). They are peaceful hunters of fish, insects and honey (which they love), but if pressed will attack with a strength and tenacity many times that of a man. Some forest-folk have, since ancient times, hunted the bear with respect and great ritual, in the old belief that, by eating the flesh of the bear, they can partake also of its strength.