spectacled bear is the only representative of the glorious bear family on the South American continent.He prefers to live mainly in the Andean highlands of rainforests, but some individuals wander in the lowlands.Sometimes it can be found at a height of about two hundred meters above sea level.Spectacled Bear has a non-traditional diet of his family, he mostly vegetarian, but sometimes does not disdain and eating carrion.Among the big bears "pacifist", which he is only a panda eating bamboo shoots only.
The unusual name of the animal was due to particular color: the eye is a bright ring, reminiscent of glasses.According to him, the bear got its name.However, these features of the pigmentation of hair are not all members of a species.
Dimensions spectacled bear is inferior to his relatives: its length - no more than one hundred and eighty centimeters (excluding semisantimetrovogo tail), height at the withers - up to seventy-six centimeters, and weight - up to one hundred and forty kilograms.Like most other members of the family, the spectacled bear good climbs trees and builds himself a den.However, hibernate, he does not want, and den is used exclusively for rearing.In fact - why sleep when there is so much food?
marriage period, spectacled bears lasts from April to June, and pregnancy lasts eight months.In the light there is from one to three tiny cubs weighing from three hundred to six hundred grams.But the cubs grow fast, and at the age of a month wandering the mother when she is busy searching for food.Sometimes they use their parent as a mount, climbing during such travel to her back.And in six months they are completely independent and leave the bear, as the spectacled bear - a solitary animal.
bears Eat all that will fall under the paw.But the basic diet - vegetable food: grass, branches of palm trees, and various fruits.Particular preference is given to the family of Bromeliads are plants, which make up half of the volume of food eaten.The most famous representative of the bromeliad is the pineapple all familiar.Guba not fool South American bears!
discovered on top of a large cluster of palm fruits, the bears are taken there and, erecting himself from the branches something like jacks or couches, live, without going down to the ground, as long as it will eat everything in sight.Spectacled bear is a predator, and genetic theory in the year of famine may eat small animals, but in practice this is extremely rare.Still, in the tropics, but not find a plant food!Spectacled bear is not very agility.The speed of movement they just unnecessarily.Speed bear with clones of the Andes very not up to the speed of his Siberian counterpart, speed racing can reach sixty kilometers per hour.
In practice, the spectacled bear predation limited ruin mounds and eating their inhabitants.He also bothers great South American farmers, because often nasty in their fields, eating the young shoots of corn and sugar cane.And noted cases of bears attacking livestock, but this happens rarely.The peasants taught the animals to stay away from his private property.But photos of bears are popular in rural areas of Colombia, Peru, Ecuador and Venezuela - in the areas of maximum spread of animals.The villagers decorate their houses their modest means.
