Spectacled Bear
Tremarctos ornatus
Also Called: Andean Bear
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About Spectacled Bears
Spectacled, or Andean, bears are the second largest land mammal in South America behind only the tapir, and the largest South American carnivore. Spectacled bears are the only bear native to South America.
Spectacled Bear Range
Fast Facts
Type: Mammal Diet: Omnivore Average life span in captivity: Up to 25 years Size: 5 to 6 ft (1.5 to 1.8 m) Weight: Males, ...
The spectacled bear gets its name from the distinctive circular bands which ring its eyes. The markings vary slightly from bear to bear, but the general look is the same.
The Spectacled Bear (Tremarctos ornatus), also known as the Andean Bear, is a small species of bear native to South America. It has black fur with a distinctive
beige-coloured marking across its face and upper chest. Next to the Giant Panda they ...
Spectacled bear
Spectacled bears are the last remaining representatives of the short-faced bears, and are the only bear species found in South America.
Spectacled Bear
Persecuted mammal emblem for South America
Common Name: Spectacled bear; Andean bear; Ours Andin; Ours à lunettes (Fr); Oso frontino (Sp) ...
Spectacled Bear
Tremarctos ornatus
Range:
Wooded, mountainous regions of Venezuela, Columbia, Ecuador, Peru, and western Bolivia; also reported in eastern Panama and northern Argentina.
Spectacled Bears are members of a Species Survival Plan (SSP) designed to breed endangered species. Once mature, the bears' only predators are humans.
APPEARANCE The spectacled bear is small and dark, ranging in color from black to brown, and a few have a reddish tinge. It has distinctive circular or semicircular creamy white markings on the face around the eyes, reminiscent of spectacles.
Spectacled bears are small, shaggy, and black. They have yellow rings around the eyes and often a lighter colored, usually cream, muzzle, throat, and chest.
Spectacled Bear
What do they look like?
This kind of bear has marks around its eyes that make it look like it is wearing glasses, or spectacles.
Spectacled bear, up-close
Photo by Chuck Dresner
Spectacled bear with cub
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Spectacled Bear (T. ornatus)
Ursus
American Black Bear (U. americanus) Â- Brown Bear (U. arctos) Â- Polar bear (U. maritimus) Â- Asian Black Bear (U. thibetanus) ...
The Andean or spectacled bear of South America gets one of its common names from the rings of white or light fur around its eyes, which look like eyeglasses (or spectacles) against the rest of the black or dark brown fur.
Also known as a spectacled bear, the Andean bear often has light fur resembling huge glasses around its eyes.
Not much larger than the Malay bear is the South American spectacled bear of the Andes (U. ornatus), distinguished from all the rest by the presence of a perforation in the lower end of the humerus, and hence sometimes separated as Tremarctus.
Spectacled bear (Tremarctos ornatus)
Nototriche (Nototriche ecuadoriensis)
Pristimantis (Pristimantis supernatis)
Giant armadillo (Priodontes maximus)
Miconia (Miconia pernettifolia)
Fuchsia (Fuchsia summa)
Bartsia (Bartsia pumila) ...
In order to preserve the world's evolutionary diversity, spectacled bears deserve special conservation priority. (Agnarsson et al 2010) ...
The only bear species native to South America. Also known as the spectacled bear due to the fact that some individuals have blonde colored hairs around their eyes, giving them the appearance of wearing glasses.
Asiatic black bear ...
The only bear of the Southern Hemisphere is the spectacled bear, Tremarctos ornatus, of the Andes Mts.; it is so called from the light-colored circles around its eyes.
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.
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), spectacled bears ...
The Andean bear can be identified by the gold, circular patterns of fur surrounding its eyes. Because of these markings, which can extend down to the chest, the species was once known as the spectacled bear.
Range ...
Polar Bear (Ursus maritimus) (Low Risk)
Sloth Bear (Melursus ursinus) (Vulnerable)
Spectacled Bear (Tremarctos ornatus) (Vulnerable)
Asiatic Black Bear (Ursus thibetanus) (except Baluchistan Bear) (Vulnerable) ...
The weight of evidence that has accumulated over the years, however, seems to support the view that it is more closely related to bears. Its closest living relative is the spectacled bear of South America.
Spectacled Bear ( Tremarctos ornatus )
Spotted Hyena ( Crocuta crocuta )
The Asiatic Bear ( Ursus thibenatus )
Thylacine ( Thylacinus cynocephalus )
Walrus ( Odobenus rosmarus )
Waterbuck ( Kobus ellipsiprymnus ) ...
 See also: Bear, Brown Bear, Panda, Polar Bear, Giant Panda
  
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