Bosley Crowther of
The New York Times wrote that the film "follows in the excellent series of nature films that have been produced by the Disney studio, such as
Seal Island and
Water Birds".
Variety called it "one of the more delightful
True-Life Adventure documentaries in the Walt Disney series ... calculated to enchant viewers of all ages".
The Monthly Film Bulletin wrote: "As usual in this series, the material itself is pleasantly photographed and has considerable interest. This is vitiated, however, by the irritatingly facetious tone of the commentary and by the apparent determination to make the bears appear as 'human' as possible—the set-piece, in this case, is a scene of the bears laboriously scratching themselves, to a characteristic musical accompaniment". ==References==