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Spectacled bear

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  Spectacled Bear
 

Our Foundation has specific data on the places where spectacled bear's families find in their natural habitats, these bear's families have a possession radium or territory of 1 kilometer, the Foundation have had approaches to these families and the villagers before our visitors were seeing them with bad eyes, because they depredated his sown fields, even came up with the idea of hunting them unknowingly the importance that these bears that are in danger of extinction have. For the moment they are in harmony after the proper explanation and conversation with some villagers, but this not last a great deal and it is due to this that the Foundation intends to buy these lots and that way to protect them in his own inhabit and maintaining the zone with the villagers' help for preserving them, being in project the first photographic savage tour, which leave to the visitors taking a photo and seeing in his inhabit these magnificent mammals naturally. The resources generated by the photographic tour will be destined to the families directly implicated as well as the maintenance of this park – reserve . If you wish to save these families from spectacled bears get in touch with us right now.
Also we wait for any institution that wishes to accomplish agreements for studies of this fabulous bear specie.
The spectacled bear, otherwise called Andean bear, of striped face, ucumari or uyutchine, this bear specie lives in South America and it looks like more to the giant panda than to the bears of the north hemisphere. Although in the past his primitive relatives occupied great part of North America, the spectacled bear is the only one still alive of the genus Tremarctos.
The spectacled bears are little in comparison with the rest of their relatives; The female weighs almost 60 kg and the male some 80 kg. The head is not very large and the snout is not very prominent. The fur is dark, black or chestnut-colored, stained of white, cream or orange around the chest, the neck and eyes. The facial stains are very variable of an individual to another one, but they use to surround the eye forming a ring, complete or not, as if it wears some spectacles (from there his common noun comes to it). All fours have five claws, small, sharpened and powerful; It employs them to climb to the top of the trees or for to destroy them when it looks for insects.
It feeds on sprout fruits of palm tree, figs, sheets; also it gets to eat little animals and insects. Pass long times in the top of the trees and construct nests in the crowns to spend the night. The spectacled bear is a noisy animal and it emits different sounds according to its activity or mood. Although it does not suppose a menace for the human being, in some areas they fear him and it gets to cause important damages at the areas of cultivation. His distribution area has diminished very fast on last years due to the human pressure. Superstition, hunting or the poaching are another leading causes of the reduction in these animals populations.
At the same that the other bears, the children of the spectacled bear are born very small and they are in need of the maternal care to attain a development and learning complete. The period of gestation lasts for some seven months and the female gives birth to one or two children.

Scientific classification: The bear of glasses belongs to the Subfamily Tremarctinae within the family Ursidae in the order of the Carnivores. Receive the scientific name of Tremarctos ornatus.