All articles tagged with "Andes"
Everything about the spectacled bear: size, Andean habitat, herbivorous diet, tree platforms, reproduction, and the strange facts that make Tremarctos ornatus South America's only bear and the last surviving short-faced bear.
Everything about the sword-billed hummingbird: size, Andean cloud forest habitat, Passiflora co-evolution, hovering flight, strange perching posture, and the facts that make Ensifera ensifera the only bird with a bill longer than its body.
Spectacled bears (Andean bears) live in cloud forests across six countries: Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, and far northern Argentina.
Spectacled bears are the most herbivorous of all bears, eating 95% plants - bromeliad hearts, palm fruits, figs. The full Andean diet, season by season.
Spectacled bear cubs are born at 300-400 g in caves or hollow trees. The mating cycle, the cub-rearing year, and how Andean conditions shape family life.
Spectacled bears are Vulnerable across the Andes. Habitat loss, retaliatory killing, and gallbladder trade drive declines. Plus how Paddington helped.
