Asiatic black bear, Tibetan black bear, Himalayan black bear, moon bear
Ursus thibetanus
Their ability to balance proficiently on their hind feet mean that they are sometimes trained as cubs to dance for human amusement.
Life span
25 years.
The Asiatic Black Bear
The asiatic black bear has many similarities to its American cousin. Both are medium sized, and black. The ears of the asiatic bear are large and seem inappropriately sized to the rest of its head and those of other bears.
Asiatic black bears are considered omnivorous (eat both meat and plants); however, their diet in the wild is primarily vegetarian. These bears have very different diets based on the time of year.
DIET Asiatic black bears have been reported to feed on a wide range of foods, including fruits, bees' nests, insects, invertebrates, small vertebrates, and carrion.
Asiatic black bears live in moist forests, on steep mountains, and in areas where the vegetation is thick. They live at higher elevations in the summer, and descend during the winter. Occasionally, they come out of the forests to forage on plains.
Asiatic Black bears share Giant Panda habitat in China's Wolong Reserve, where they feed occasionally, among other things, on bamboo, which is their more specialized relatives' favorite food.
Asiatic black bear
What do they look like?
They are medium size bears. They are black with a patch of creamy white fur on their chest. They have bigger ears than other kinds of bear.
Asiatic black bears
Tigers once lived in this region but have since been extirpated. See the Tiger Information Center.
Rhododendrons are common in giant panda habitat, and are also found here in the eastern U.S.
Pictures of asiatic black bears
Pictures of sloth bears
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Black bears, like brown and Asiatic black bears and many other carnivores, have a prolonged gestation period resulting from an arrest in embryonic development or "delayed implantation".
Asiatic black bear (Ursus thibetanus)
Western hoolock gibbon (Hoolock hoolock)
Capped langur (Trachypithecus pileatus)
Lius papillae-tongued frog (Ingerana liui)
Black-footed gray langur (Semnopithecus hypoleucos) ...
There are eight species of bears alive today, including American black bears (Ursus americanus), Asiatic black bears (Ursus thibetanus), brown bears (Ursus arctos = the grizzly bear), giant pandas, polar bears, sloth bears (Melursus ursinus), ...
The ancestors of today's American black bears and Asiatic black bears diverged from the ancestor of today's sun bears some 4.5 million years ago.
The Asiatic black bear, recognisable by the cream coloured v-shape on its chest, and the South American spectacled bear with its notable face markings are also kept in several zoos. All these bears are essentially forest dwelling omnivores.
Golden monkeys, takin, red pandas, Asiatic black bears, and many pheasants live in the same geographic areas as giant pandas
Other mammalian stem and leaf eaters could affect the number of pandas an area can support: ...
 See also: Black Bear, Bear, Brown Bear, Panda, Sloth
  
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