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A spectacled bear (Tremarctos ornatus) with distinctive pale markings on its face sits on large tree branches. Illustration of a spectacled bear (Tremarctos ornatus), showing a medium-sized mammal with dark fur and distinctive pale markings around its eyes and face, standing in profile. A scale bar above indicates size in centimeters and inches. World map showing the geographic ranges of the eight bear species, each marked in a different color. The American black bear is found across much of North America, the polar bear in Arctic regions, the brown bear across northern North America, Europe, and Asia, and the spectacled bear in a small area of northwestern South America. In Asia, the Asiatic black bear, sloth bear, sun bear, and giant panda have distinct, mostly non-overlapping ranges in the eastern and southern parts of the continent.
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spectacled bear: References & Edit History

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Add new Web site: National Center for Biotechnology Information - PubMed Central - An Annotated Draft Genome for the Andean Bear, Tremarctos ornatus. Mar 03, 2025
Add new Web site: Frontiers - Frontiers in Microbiology - Captivity Shapes the Gut Microbiota of Andean Bears: Insights into Health Surveillance. Jun 11, 2024
Add new Web site: Animalia - Spectacled Bear. Nov 21, 2023
Add new Web site: Animal Corner - Spectacled Bear. Sep 29, 2023
Added a map of the geographic ranges of living bears. Sep 27, 2022
Article revised and updated. May 23, 2022
Add new Web site: A-Z Animals - Spectacled Bear. Jan 24, 2014
Added new Web site: World Wide Fund For Nature - Spectacled Bear. Dec 24, 2008
Added new Web site: Brazilian fauna .com - Spectacled Bear. Dec 24, 2008
Added new Web site: San Diego Zoo Animals and Plants - Andean (Spectacled) Bear. Dec 23, 2008
Added new Web site: Smithsonian�s National Zoo and Conservation Biology Institute - Andean bear. Dec 23, 2008
Added new Web site: The Phoenix Zoo - Spectacled Bear. Dec 23, 2008
Added new Web site: National Geographic - Animals - Spectacled Bear. Sep 04, 2008
Added new Web site: Craighead Environmental Research Center - The Spectacled Bear. Dec 11, 2007
Added new Web site: Wildscreen Arkive - Spectacled bear. Dec 11, 2007
Added new Web site: Bears.org - Spectacled Bear. Dec 11, 2007
Added new Web site: Smithsonian�s National Zoo and Conservation Biology Institute - Andean bear. Dec 11, 2007
Added new Web site: British Broadcasting Corporation - Spectacled Bear. Dec 11, 2007
Added new Web site: The Bear Planet - Spectacled bear. Dec 11, 2007
Added new Web site: Animal Diversity Web - Spectacled bear. Dec 11, 2007
Added new Web site: Great Bear Foundation - Spectacled Bear. Dec 11, 2007
Media added. Oct 23, 2007
Article added to new online database. Jul 20, 1998
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