Sun Bears (aka Malayan Sun Bears)
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Shining A Light On Sun Bears (aka Malayan Sun Bears, Honey Bears)
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Scientific Classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Carnivora
Family: Ursidae
Genus: Helarctos
Horsfield 1825
Species: H. malayanus
Binomial name: Helarctos malayanus
(Raffles, 1821)
From Wikipedia
Sun Bears - Just The Facts
Sun Bears, also known as Honey Bears are found primarily in the tropical rain forests of Southeast Asia.
Features
Sun Bears are covered with short black or brown-black fur except for a horseshoe shaped marking on their chests which is orange-yellow in color. This coloring is also around their eyes and their muzzle. This distinctive coloring is where their name "Sun" Bear came from.
They have large paws and their feet turn inward and a short 2 inch tail. Their tongues are thin and long -- usually between 8 to 10 inches -- which is used to suck honey out of beehives. They have flatter teeth with their canine teeth longer and stick out between their lips.
Sun bears have poor eyesight but a keen sense of smell. With 3 inch long claws, they are excellent climbers. They also walk pigeon-toed.
Size
Sun Bears are the smallest bear of the 8 bear species of the world. They are about 4 feet long. The males weigh between 66 and 132 lbs. and the females between 44 and 88 lbs.
What Sun Bears Eat
The Sun Bear's Diet
Sun Bears are omnivorous and feast on small creatures like lizards and birds as well as fruits and berries. They also eat termites, eggs, roots, and honey digging with their long claws. In addition, they use powerful jaw muscles to crack open cocoa nuts and coconuts.They also use their very long tongues to dig out insects and honey in treees.
In the San Diego zoo, the sun bears are also fed vegetables and peanut butter, mealworms, crickets, and bones to gnaw.
Conservation Status
WWF - Saving Sun Bears
Contact Ursa Freedom Project to find out what you can do to save the Sun Bear from extinction.
Links To Organizations Saving Sun Bears And Information
Valuable Information on Sun Bears
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Bornean Sun Bear Conservation
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San Diego Zoo Blogs » Blog Archive » Conserving Ursids: Sun Bears
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Bornean Sun Bear Conservation
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Ursa Freedom Project - inspiring collaboration for bear conservation
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San Diego Zoo's Animal Bytes: Sun Bear
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What A Handsome Sun Bear!
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![Home range, movement and activity patterns, and bedding sites of Malayan sun bears Helarctos malayanus in the Rainforest of Borneo [An article from: Biological Conservation] by S. Te Wong, C.W. Servheen, L. Ambu](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51P1T5EY1VL._SL75_.jpg)
Home range, movement and activity patterns, and bedding sites of Malayan sun bears Helarctos malayanus in the Rainforest of Borneo [An article from: Biological Conservation] by S. Te Wong, C.W. Servheen, L. Ambu
This digital document is a journal article from Biological Conservation, published by Elsevier in 2004. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Media Library immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.
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Six Malayan sun bears were captured and radio-collared from June 1999 to December 2001 in Ulu Segama Forest Reserve, Sabah, Malaysia Borneo to study home-range characteristics, movement patterns, activity patterns, population de...1 point
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Close-up of the Claws of a Malayan Sun Bear Photographic Poster Print by Roy Toft, 36x48
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Malayan Sun Bear Photographic Poster Print by Anup Shah, 9x12
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Sun Bear Standing Up
Articles on Sun Bears
- Perhilitan rangers catch pesky sun bear
- JELI: Villagers in Kampung Pasir Dusun can sleep easier now that a sun bear, which had been destroying their crops, has been captured.
Wildlife and National Park Department rangers caught the female bear using an iron cage trap recently. - Destination Unknown: Sunny Bears
- So feel I should fill you all in a bit more on the animals at the centre other than the wonderful orang-utans. Next in line for me are the Sun Bears - sadly there are only about 10,000 bears remaining in the world which makes them a hell of a lot more vulnerable even than the orang-utans.
- Habitat destruction, logging, wildlife trade drive sun bears toward extinction
- Industrial logging, large-scale forest conversion for oil palm plantations, and the illegal wildlife trade have left sun bears the rarest species of bear on the planet. Recognizing their dire status, Siew Te Wong, a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Montana, is working in Malaysia to save the species from extinction.
- Video: rare footage of the sun bear, the world's smallest, making a nest in the canopy
- Sun bear expert, Siew Te Wong, has captured rare footage of the world's smallest bear making a nest high in the canopy. The sun bear in the video is a radio-collared individual that Wong is keeping tabs on in Borneo.
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brynimagire
Mar 27, 2012 @ 7:56 am | delete
- Woe ! Beautiful bear ! Thanks for sharing.
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JaguarJulie Dec 28, 2011 @ 11:36 am | delete
- Hello my dear Frankie ... very warm bear hugs to you! Say, did you see that bit on the news about the lady that has bears swinging in her hammocks and trees on her property? Where she demonstrated walking between a momma bear and her cubs??? Whatcha think about all that?
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GonnaFly
Aug 14, 2011 @ 8:48 pm | delete
- You are such a bear expert! This lens has been blessed and added to my animal alphabet lens.
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hayley
May 28, 2011 @ 10:12 pm | delete
- hi i am learning about sun bears because at school i must make a speach about any topic so i picked these bears !!!! any way i was wondering how can we as children help these creatures because i really want to include info like this ???? can anyone help me please ???
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Frankster May 30, 2011 @ 11:52 am | delete
- The best thing a young person can do is to spread the word about these rare bears. To remind people they are there and to help support some of the organizations working to save these bears such as Bornean Sun Bear Conservation or Ursa Freedom Project. You can also visit the zoos near you that have these bears and give be their voice for them in your local area. Bear hugs, Frankie
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