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This brings us to one of the main aspects of the story. However, mother bears are extremely protective of their offspring and Koda’s is no exception, dealing out not one but two hunter smack-downs during the course of the film. True to form, in Brother Bear we never see a mother, father and cub unit at any point in the film, even during the montage at the salmon run.
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If they do hang around their cubs, it’s for another reason entirely, which I’ll touch upon later. Bears are serially monogamous, so they only enjoy one booty call at a time during mating season, but the males don’t stick around for the aftermath. Family LifeĪs for Koda, he’s lost his mother and is all by himself. In fact, the largest recorded bears are the ones whose diet consists primarily of meat, sometimes even other bears, so Kenai’s horrified reaction to meeting Tug is also entirely accurate. Fresh meat can also form a key part of their diet, and there is an allusion to this too – moose brothers Rutt and Tuke are initially terrified of Kenai in case he devours them on sight, which is a reasonable length to go to to stop their annoying banter. Bears are such badasses that if they don’t get enough, they’ll effectively start eating themselves – they can lose a staggering 1,000,000 calories during hibernation, so most of their time has to be spent stuffing their gullet with berries, nuts and of course salmon, which our main characters are seen eating throughout the film. The first thing on Kenai’s to-do list would have been to eat a shed load of food. Koda is briefly reunited with his mother’s spirit, and then all four brothers, human, spirit and bear, make amends and live in peace with one another.Īside from all the spirit magic, would things have been much different if Kenai had been a real bear? What They Got Right Food Then Sidka and the other spirits intervene, and Kenai agrees to remain a bear as penance and to look after Koda. Unsurprisingly, Koda isn’t impressed at this news and runs away, but later returns having forgiven him, just in time to save Kenai from being speared by Denahi. They form a close bond in between being hunted by Kenai’s remaining human brother, Denahi, but when they reach the congregation of bears at the salmon run, Kenai finds out that the one he killed was actually Koda’s mother. He was heading to the yearly salmon run, and since this is in the direction of Kenai’s destination, the older bear grudgingly agrees to let him tag along. While travelling to the home of the spirits to ask for his human form back, Kenai comes across a cub named Koda who has lost his mother. The spirit of Sidka – embodied by the northern lights – responds by changing him into a bear, either for a laugh or to teach him about perspective. When a bear kills his oldest brother, Sidka, Kenai the hunter seeks revenge by ramming a spear through its chest.
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Let’s start with the (in my opinion) underrated Brother Bear. This is solely to compare their behaviours and diet etc. I’ll be looking at the species of the main characters only, and, as an obvious disclaimer, I am well aware that animals can’t really talk/use magic/choreograph big musical numbers. Mother Nature is just as guilty a party here, and since there are some great Disney films that I can’t include in the main theme of this blog, I thought I would add a couple of entries focusing on their portrayal of animals and how true they are to life. It’s not just the source text that requires Disney to tweak their stories, either for the sake of cinema, or to avoid reducing their average audience to a quivering mess of tears and denial.