Spectacled Bears (aka Andean Bears)

News Stories and articles about Spectacled (Andean) Bears

Spectacled Bear Debuts at the Zoo - National Zoo

In early February, a three-year-old female spectacled bear made her debut at the Zoo. Weighing about 125 pounds and still growing, she is quite agile, climbing high in the structures in her yard, located near Amazonia. Visitors may see her every day from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m.

Nikki the Bear Lost 110 Pounds on the National Zoo Diet

Luckily, the National Zoo is one of a handful of zoos with an animal nutrition team. After assessing the situation, nutritionist Karen Lisi came up with a step-by-step diet plan to help Nikki shed the pounds within a year

Spectacled Bear Update: Breeding and Nest Building - National Zoo|

We were pleasantly surprised, when Billie Jean, a female spectacled bear who arrived at the Zoo a few months ago, came into heat on Father's Day. Nikki, a male spectacled bear, was extremely interested in and persistent with breeding her.

National Zoo Bear Loses 110 Pounds

WASHINGTON, D.C. - One of the main attractions at the National Zoo just got a little smaller. The zoo's 17-year-old spectacled bear arrived at the zoo dangerously obese. Two and half years later, he's thinner, has a girlfriend and there could even be a baby on the way.

the paw of an andean spectacled bear

The Oso Antiojos - Andean Spectacled Bear - is by some estimates the rarest bear in the world, more so than the Panda, with numbers betwe 1,000 and 2,000. During my time in Bolivia, I spent a day in the cloud forest way above the Yungas. What transpired was extraordinary and will remain with me for the rest of my life.

I walked with a bear.

San Diego Zoo Blogs » Blog Archive » Dry-forest Bears of Peru

The San Diego Zoo has two researchers studying bear habitat in Peru.

Bear Dies at the Binghamton Zoo

This has been a difficult week for staff at the Binghamton Zoo at Ross Park. Two of its popular animals died from totally unrelated causes. According to Executive Director Mike Janis, "It is very rare to lose an animal at the Zoo, but to lose two within a few days period is almost unheard of".

Natural Wonders - The Spectacled Bear (Andean Bear) | Latin Lounge

The Spectacled Bear (Andean Bear) is the only bear found in South America

Researchers track the rare Spectacled Bear in northern Peru

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Rare bears, indigenous tribe threatened in Ecuador

Having been a part of 40 expeditions into Amazonia and the Andes and a dozen more into the Galapagos Islands, I was recently invited to be the consulting biologist for a television documentary in Ecuador featuring CSI Miami's Jorja Fox, Extreme Animal Rescue actor/producer William MacNamara and Ecua