They are not teddy bears that the kid plays with.
Some may look cute and cuddly but these big furry creatures are definitely not.
Most of us will generally only see them in zoos though, and these are the world’s largest bear species and are definitely worth a visit.
You probably won’t find all bears in all zoos; may be the best chance to see some bears in their native country.
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The sun bear is native to the tropical forests of Southeast Asia.
In Malaysia, Malayan honey is known for its sweet sticky substance.
The sun bear is the smallest bear, standing at about 176 pounds and five feet tall.
They have short black fur with light-colored hairs, a white area extending over the eyes.
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The giant panda is a model for cute and cute.
It is a roly-poly white face and body with black fur around the neck, legs and ears.
Unlike other bears, the panda is basically a lion, with bamboo making up 99 percent of its diet.
The panda originated in the mountains of southern China, especially Sichuan Province.
These chubby bears measure up to six feet in diameter and weigh up to 250 pounds.
The sloth bear, which evolved from the brown bear in the Pleistocene period, is native to the Indian subcontinent.
It is a nocturnal insect-eating bear with a lower lip designed to suck bugs in.
The sloth bear is an Asiatic black bear that is weaker, with longer fur, a pale bulbous muzzle and white claws.
They weigh up to 290 pounds and can be up to 6 feet tall.
They are known to invade people who invade their territory.
9. Asian black bears
Asian black bears do not like humans very much, which is understandable because humans hunt them for their body parts and traditional medicine.
They are found in the mountainous regions of Asia, from Taiwan and northern China to the northern Indian subcontinent and the Russian Far East.
The Asiatic black bear is also known as the moon bear or the white bear because of the 5 or half moon white skin formed on their chest.
The bears are medium-sized (on average 6 meters long and 300 pounds) very similar to prehistoric bears.
The bespectacled bear received its name because it makes the rings around its eyes look like spectacles to the wearer.
The average bear, the spotted bear, is the only bear native to South America.
When considered eating food, food only makes up about 5 percent of the bear’s observed activity.
Its skin is usually black, but it can also be a shade of brown or red.
It can be found in the cloud forests of the Andes mountains, mainly in the regions of South and North and West America.
7. American Bear
The American bear is the smallest bear species on the North American continent, but it is most commonly found anywhere from Alaska to Florida and from California to the Coastal Provinces of Canada*.
They prefer wooded habitats and are sometimes restricted to human communities due to easier food availability – they are garbage scavengers.
The American bear evolved from the sun bear thousands of years ago.
6. Eurasian rust
The Eurasian bear is also known as the European bear in the mountainous regions of northern Europe, but as far south as the Pyrenees.
The largest population can be found in the Siberian forests.
A bear sports long shaggy hair in shades of dark brown.
Ursus’s Latin name, Ursus horriblis, means “terrible bear.” The brown bear is also known as the silver bear because of its gray-tipped hair, and sometimes as the North American brown bear, as it is the same species.
Whatever you call it, it’s fierce and huge – males stand at nearly 800 pounds and are more than 6 feet tall.
Grizzlies range in color from yellow to almost black, but are mostly brown.
4. Ussuri brown bears
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The Ussuri brown bear is one of the largest brown bears, and is sometimes called the black bear.
Their population tends to be in northern China where the body parts are being traced, but the national records are to be held in North Korea.
They have been known to attack and kill humans, when they themselves are sometimes turned into a meal by Siberian tigers.
3. Kamchatka brown bears
The Kamchatka brown bear, the largest bear in Eurasia, is basically found in Russia’s Kamchatka region and surrounding islands as well as Alaska’s Saint Lawrence in the Bering Sea. The bear is a big one, sometimes as tall as 9 feet and weighing about 1,500 pounds.
He is believed to be the ancestor of the Kodiak bear.
They rarely attack humans, but bears are the trophy hunters of the Russians.
2. Kodiak bears
The Kodiak bear, the world’s largest grizzly bear, is native to the islands of Alaska.
Big doesn’t begin to describe their size: some weigh 1,500 pounds and stand nearly 10 feet tall when they hang straight, even though they eat the same foods as brown bears.
They are usually brown, but can be golden; young bears have a white ring around their necks for several years.
The polar bear, along with the Kodiak bear, is the largest species of bear in the world.
It is the same size as the Kodiak bear, only it is white instead of brown.
They are born on land, but spend most of their lives in the sea ice, making the bulk of their diet by seals.
The species are considered vulnerable because climate change is causing their habitat to disappear.
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STATION – In Alaska’s annual battle of the heavyweights, a salmon-chomping bruin named 747 – like a jetliner – has emerged as the fattest.
The bear, one of more than 2,200 brown bears roaming Katmai National Park and Alaska Preserve, was the winner on Tuesday after a week of furious online voting in what has become an international sensation: Fat Bear Week.
“This year he was really packed, looking fat enough to hibernate in July and still eat until his belly seemed to drag on the ground in late September,” the park said.
The Fat Bear of the Week 12 pits against each other in playoff style brackets.
Bears fans gathered photos and voted online for their favorites from last Wednesday through Tuesday night.
For people, Fat Bear Week is a fun way to learn, from afar, about nature and Alaska.
Katmai bears can grow well over a thousand pounds (453 kg) from a summer feast.
That makes Fat Bear Week about “the fattest bear” as the Park Service puts it.
Katmai, a 4-million-acre spread over mountains, lakes, rivers and seas, is famous for its dense population of brown bears, the maritime version of grizzlies.
Inside the Katmai river, the river is the first place to feast on brown bears.
There, bears congregate in the summer and fall down the river to snatch salmon from spastic swimming pools, with much of the action captured by a webcam captured by explora.org, one of the partners of Fat Bear Week.
This year, the bear paradise river was more than usual, because of the salmon run, said Noomi Doak, in the middle of the excursion at Katmai.
“The combination of big salmon runs and fewer, this spring river has delivered bears,” he said.