The Spectacled Bear

The spectacled bear (Tremarctos ornatus), also known as the spectacled bear, Andean bear, bear in South America, and Jukumari and Ucumari is a species of carnivorous mammal of the family Ursidae. Isthe only species of its genus.

Of medium size compared to other bears, measuring 1.30 and 1.90 m tall, and weighs on average between 80 and 125 kg, with the largest male than the female, the coloris uniform black or blackish brown, with coarse hair. The muzzle is short, light brown or white, with white spots that extend around the eyes and nose across the cheeks, down the neck to the chest,and it varies greatly between individuals. The Spectacled Bear has five fingers with long claws and curves do not shrink. And soles of the feet have hair interdigital that helps the spectacled bearclimb trees. Diurnals, solitary, omnivorous, terrestrial and climbers, their diet is predominantly vegetarian

Features
Features

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What most characterizes this species is the presence of white oryellowish patches around the eyes, which sometimes come to the area of the throat and chest, although some specimens may completely miss the spots on the face. Drawing the pattern of such spots variesfrom one individual to another. The most common coat color is black, but specimens are brown and with a much smaller event, reddish.
Habitat
Habitat

It lives almost exclusivelyAndean rain forests with annual rainfall exceeding 1,000 mm (per humid areas), although it is found in deserts and semiarid areas whose rainfall about 250 mm. It live preferably in the montane flatsranging from 800 to 3,800 m but reaches altitudes of 4,750 meters. On the western slope of the central Andes of Peru (Decree Lambayeque, Chaparri Ecological Reserve) down to the desert and the dryforests where it feeds on cactus, sapote (Capparis spp.) And trunks pasallo (Eriotheca spp.).



Feeding & custtoms
Feeding & custtoms

Like most current bears, the spectacled bear is...