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| Active behaviour |
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| Exploring | Searching for things inside its enclosure like dead branches, stones, walls, cages, artificial objects, and so forth |
| Locomotion | Moving from one place to another inside its enclosure quadrupedally or bipedally |
| Fighting | Quarrelling with its counterparts |
| Climbing | Moving up the tree trunk |
| Digging | Making a hole on the ground with its paws |
| Rolling | Turning itself on the ground |
| Playing | Playing and wrestling with inhibited strikes with low or no vocalization |
| Social | Playing with its other enclosure mates in a friendly way |
| Solitary | Playing all by itself with inanimate objects inside its enclosure |
| Foraging | Manipulating food items; this includes live plant material and drinking of water |
| Object observation | Perusing the inanimate objects in its enclosure like logs, rocks, and walls |
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| Passive behaviour |
| Rest | Bear sits or lies with its head down or eyes visibly closed |
| Alert | Bear lies, sits, or stands with head up and eyes open and responds to any stimuli |
| Maintenance | Bear grooms itself with its mouth and paws, scratches, defecates, urinates, and rubs its body |
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| Abnormal behaviour |
| Pacing | Bear traverses the same path repetitively |
| Swaying | Moving its body to and fro by standing |
| Head tossing | Moving the head up and down |
| Self-aggression | Action directed towards other bears |
| Circling | Moving in a circular direction constantly |
| Self-mutilation | Biting its own skin repeatedly to the extent of inducing trauma |
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