FREQUENCY: Rare
NO. APPEARING: 1-3
ARMOR CLASS: 6
MOVE: 15?
HIT DICE: 7+7
NO. OF ATTACKS: 2 claws and 1 bite
DAMAGE/ATTACK: 1-8/1-8/1-8
SPECIAL ATTACK: Hug for 2-12 if both
INTELLIGENCE: Semi-
% IN LAIR: Nil (free roaming)
TREASURE TYPE: Nil
SPECIAL ATTACKS: Nil
SPECIAL DEFENSES: Nil
MAGIC RESISTANCE: Standard
INTELLIGENCE: Animal
ALIGNMENT: Neutral
SIZE: L
PSIONIC ABILITY: Nil
SOURCE: "Into The Age Of Mammals", Dragon 137.

All bears in the AD&D game rule books
also lived in the late Pleistocene. Brown
and black bears roamed temperate and
boreal forests, polar bears the arctic,
grizzlies the plains, and cave bears the
mountain valleys. Cave bears were almost
totally vegetarian, despite what the Monster
Manual says, but that did not lessen
their ferocity if disturbed.
There was a little-known bear that
roamed the subglacial plains of the Pleistocene:
the short-faced bear, Arctodus
simus. It stood twice a grizzly's height,
mainly because of the bear's long legs, and
had a short muzzle. If encountered, it
fights down to -9 hp, as does a cave bear.