Andean short-faced bear, spectacled bear (Tremarctos ornatus) Description
Title: Ecuador : Serranías Cofán-Bermejo, Sinangoe
Year: 2002 (2000s)
Authors: Pitman, Nigel; Field Museum of Natural History. Environmental and Conservation Programs
Date 2002
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Source book page: https://archive.org/stream/ecuadorserranasc32002pitm/#page/n18/mode/1up
Author Pitman, Nigel; Field Museum of Natural History. Environmental and Conservation Programs
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The spectacled bear (Tremarctos ornatus), also known as the Andean bear or Andean short-faced bear and locally as jukumari (Aymara), ukumari (Quechua) or ukuku, is the last remaining short-faced bear (subfamily Tremarctinae). Its closest relatives are the extinct Florida spectacled bear, and the giant short-faced bears of the Middle Pleistocene to Late Pleistocene age. Spectacled bears are the only surviving species of bear native to South America, and the only surviving member of the subfamily Tremarctinae.
Order: Carnivora
Suborder: Caniformia
Family: Ursidae
Genus: Tremarctos
Species: Tremarctos ornatus (Cuvier, 1825)
Synonyms: Ursus ornatus Cuvier, 1825