4/90Average percentage of a bear’s weight that it loses during hibernation: 25

Great Bear Foundation (Missoula, Mont.)

9/99Percentage of white Pennsylvania men denied gun ownership between 1778 and 1789 for refusing a state loyalty oath: 40

Prof. Saul Cornell, Ohio State University (Columbus)

8/96Days in jail to which a Pennsylvania man was sentenced last March for repeatedly oinking at his ex-wife: 30

Dauphin County District Attorney’s Office (Harrisburg, Pa.)

6/98Number of cars broken into by bears last year at Yosemite National Park: 889

Yosemite National Park (Yosemite, Calif.)

11/00Number of bears bred for their bile at China’s 247 licensed bear farms in 1998: 6,764

International Fund for Animal Welfare (Beijing)