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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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The spectacled bear (Tremarctos ornatus) of South America's Andes Mountains...
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The spectacled bear (Tremarctos ornatus) is threatened by habitat loss,...
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Geographic ranges of living species of bears
Geographic ranges of the eight living species of bears.
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