Overview
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Interesting Facts
Common Names
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Common Names in Chinese:
Gou-Xiong, He-Xiong
Common Names in Dutch:
Aziatische Zwarte Beer, Kraagbeer
Common Names in English:
Asian Black Bear, Asiatic Black Bear, Himalayan Black Bear
Common Names in French:
Ours à Collier, Ours De L'himalaya, Ours Du Tibet, Ours Noir D'asie
Description
Physical Description
Size/Age/Growth
This medium-sized bear can weigh up to 400 lbs , with females being a bit smaller.
Habitat
Forested areas around hills and mountains.
Ecology: Tropical
rainforest and oak forests
are ideal habitats
for this species.[1]
List of Habitats: 1.4 Forest - Temperate
1.5 Forest - Subtropical/Tropical Dry
Biology
Diet
Omnivorous , feeding on small mammals, fish, and isects, but primarily plants , especially fruits and nuts.
Reproduction
Females give birth to 1-4 cubs after a 7 month gestation .
Taxonomy
- Domain:
Eukaryota
(
)
- Whittaker & Margulis,1978
- eukaryotes
- Kingdom:
Animalia
()
- Linnaeus, 1758
- animals
- Subkingdom:
Bilateria
()
- (Hatschek, 1888) Cavalier-Smith, 1983
- Branch:
Deuterostomia
()
- Grobben, 1908
- Infrakingdom:
Chordonia
()
- (Haeckel, 1874) Cavalier-Smith, 1998
- Phylum:
Chordata
()
- Bateson, 1885
- Chordates
- Subphylum:
Vertebrata
()
- Cuvier, 1812
- Vertebrates
- Infraphylum:
Gnathostomata
()
- Auct.
- Jawed Vertebrates
- Superclass:
Tetrapoda
()
- Goodrich, 1930
- Class:
Mammalia
()
- C. Linnaeus, 1758
- Mammals
- Subclass:
Theriiformes
()
- (Rowe, 1988) M.c. Mckenna & S.k. Bell, 1997
- Infraclass:
Holotheria
()
- (Wible Et Al., 1995) M.c. Mckenna & S.k. Bell, 1997
- Superlegion:
Trechnotheria
()
- Mckenna, 1975
- Legion:
Cladotheria
()
- Mckenna, 1975
- Sublegion:
Zatheria
()
- Mckenna, 1975
- Infralegion:
Tribosphenida
()
- (Mckenna, 1975) M.c. Mckenna & S.k. Bell, 1997
- Supercohort:
Theria
()
- (Parker & Haswell, 1897) M.c. Mckenna & S.k. Bell, 1997
- Cohort:
Placentalia
()
- (Owen, 1837) M.c. Mckenna & S.k. Bell, 1997
- Magnorder:
Epitheria
()
- (Mckenna, 1975) M.c. Mckenna & S.k. Bell, 1997
- Superorder:
Preptotheria
()
- (Mckenna, 1975) Mckenna, in Stucky & Mckenna, in Benton, Ed., 1993
- Superorder:
Preptotheria
(
- Magnorder:
Epitheria
(
- Cohort:
Placentalia
(
- Supercohort:
Theria
(
- Infralegion:
Tribosphenida
(
- Sublegion:
Zatheria
(
- Legion:
Cladotheria
(
- Superlegion:
Trechnotheria
(
- Infraclass:
Holotheria
(
- Subclass:
Theriiformes
(
- Class:
Mammalia
(
- Superclass:
Tetrapoda
(
- Infraphylum:
Gnathostomata
(
- Subphylum:
Vertebrata
(
- Phylum:
Chordata
(
- Infrakingdom:
Chordonia
(
- Branch:
Deuterostomia
(
- Subkingdom:
Bilateria
(
- Kingdom:
Animalia
(
Unambiguous Synonyms
- Ursus thibetanus G. [baron] Cuvier, 1823
Notes
Name Status: Accepted Name . Latest taxonomic scrutiny: 28-Oct-2003
Similar Species
Members of the genus Ursus
ZipcodeZoo has pages for 84 species and subspecies in this genus:
U. abstrusus · U. americana · U. americanus (American Black Bear) · U. americanus altifrontalis · U. americanus amblyceps · U. americanus americanus (American Black Bear) · U. americanus californiensis · U. americanus carlottae · U. americanus cinnamomum · U. americanus emmonsi · U. americanus emmonsii (Glacier Bear) · U. americanus eremicus · U. americanus floridanus (Florida Black Bear) · U. americanus hamiltoni · U. americanus kermodei (Kermode Black Bear) · U. americanus luteolus (Louisiana Black Bear) · U. americanus machetes · U. americanus perniger (Kenai Black Bear) · U. americanus pugnax · U. americanus subsp · U. americanus vancouveri · U. arctos (Mexican Grizzly Bear) · U. arctos alascensis · U. arctos arctos (Mexican Grizzly Bear) · U. arctos beringianus · U. arctos californicus (Bajan Bear) · U. arctos caucasicus (Mexican Grizzly Bear) · U. arctos crowtheri (Atlas Bear) · U. arctos dalli · U. arctos gyas · U. arctos horribilis (Grizzly Bear) · U. arctos horribilus · U. arctos isabellinus · U. arctos lasiotus · U. arctos meridionalis · U. arctos middendorff · U. arctos middendorffi (Mexican Grizzly Bear) · U. arctos middendorfi · U. arctos middendorfii · U. arctos nelsoni · U. arctos pruinosus (Mexican Grizzly Bear) · U. arctos richardsoni · U. arctos shanorum · U. arctos sitkensis · U. arctos stikeenensis · U. arctos subsp · U. arctos syriacus (Sirian Brown Bear) · U. arctos yesoensis · U. arctus · U. arvernensis · U. boeckhi · U. cancrivorus · U. deningeri · U. etruscus · U. horribilis · U. lasiotus · U. luteolus · U. malayanus · U. maritimus (Polar Bear) · U. maritimus marinus (Polar Bear) · U. maritimus maritimus (Polar Bear) · U. mediterraneus · U. melanoleucus · U. middendorffi (Alaskan Brown Bear) · U. minimus · U. nasutus · U. ornatus · U. ruscinensis · U. sackdillingensis · U. spaeleus · U. spelaearctos · U. spelaeus · U. taxus · U. thibetanus (Himalayan Black Bear) · U. thibetanus gedrosianus (Baluchistan Bear) · U. thibetanus japonicus · U. thibetanus laniger · U. thibetanus thibetanus (Himalayan Black Bear) · U. thibetanus ussuricus · U. torquatus arboreus · U. ursinus · U. ursinus ursinus · U. wenzensis · U. x
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Further Reading
- A catalogue of the collection of mammals in the Field Columbian Museum. Chicago: Field Columbian Museum, 1907. ENG url p. 422, p. 423, p. 661.
- A study of the mammals of Iran: resulting from the Street Expedition of 1962-63 [by] Douglas M. Lay. [Chicago]Field Museum of Natural History, 1967. ENG url p. 234.
- A survey of the mammals of Afghanistan, resulting from the 1965 Street Expedition (excluding bats) [by] Jerry D. Hassinger. [Chicago]Field Museum of Natural History, 1973. ENG url p. 126.
- Annual report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution. Washington: Smithsonian Institution, -1965. ENG url p. 72, p. 91, p. 91, p. 94, p. 97.
- Archiv für Naturgeschichte. Berlin: Nicolai, 1835- GER url p. 117, p. 304, p. 83, p. 84.
- Bulletin de la Société zoologique de France. Paris: La Société, FRE url p. 89.
- Catalogue of Mammalia in the Indian Museum, Calcutta / by John Anderson, Superintendent of the Indian Museum. Calcutta, 1881-1891. ENG url p. 303.
- Checklist of Palaearctic and Indian mammals 1758 to 1946 / by J.R. Ellerman and T.C.S. Morrison-Scott. London: BM(NH), 1966. ENG url p. 239, p. 239.
- Contributions to the anatomy and development of the salivary glands in the mammalia. Conducted under the George Crocker Special Research Fund at Columbia University. New York, Columbia Univ. Pr., 1913. ENG url p. 158, p. 171, p. 181, p. 183, p. 184, p. 185, p. 186.
- Groombridge, B. (ed.) 1994. 1994 IUCN Red List of Threatened Animals. IUCN, Gland, Switzerland.
- IUCN. 1990. 1990 IUCN Red List of Threatened Animals. IUCN, Gland, Switzerland and Cambridge, UK.
- Papers on mammalogy, published in honor of Wilfred Hudson Osgood. Chicago: Field Museum of Natural History, 1941 ENG url p. 85.
- Servheen, C., Herrero, S. and Peyton, B. (compilers). 1998. Bears. Status Survey and Conservation Action Plan. IUCN/SSC Bear and Polar Bear Specialist Groups. IUCN, Gland, Switzerland and Cambridge, UK.
- The giant panda: a morphological study of evolutionary mechanisms / D. Dwight Davis. Chicago, U.S.A.: Chicago Natural History Museum, 1964. ENG url p. 13, p. 20.
- The naturalist's library; containing scientific and popular descriptions of man, quadrupeds, birds, fishes, reptiles and insects; comp. from the works of Cuvier, Griffith, Richardson and other writers on natural history. Arranged according to the clas Boston, Phillips, Sampson, and company, 1850. ENG url p. 114.
- The zoological magazine: or journal of natural history, being a series of miscellaneous articles, original and translated, on interesting subjects in Zoology, and c.. [edited by R. Owen, afterwards Sir R. Owen, K.C.B.]. London, 1833. url p. 68.
Notes
Contributors
- Bear Specialist Group 1996. In IUCN 2008. 2008 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. IUCNRedList.org. Downloaded July 20, 2008.
- Bear Specialist Group 1996. Ursus thibetanus. In: IUCN 2006. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. and lt;www.iucnredlist.org and gt;. Downloaded on 20 October 2006.
- Bisby, F.A., Y.R. Roskov, M.A. Ruggiero, T.M. Orrell, L.E. Paglinawan, P.W. Brewer, N. Bailly, J. van Hertum, eds (2007). Species 2000 and ITIS Catalogue of Life: 2007 Annual Checklist. Species 2000: Reading, U.K.
- Brands, S.J. (comp.) 1989-2006. Systema Naturae 2000. The Taxonomicon. Universal Taxonomic Services, Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Accessed October 12, 2006.
- Global Biodiversity Information Facility. Accessed February 29, 2008. http://www.gbif.org Mediated distribution data from 4 providers.
Data Sources
Accessed through GBIF Data Portal February 29, 2008:
- Marine Science Institute, UCSB: Paleobiology Database
- Michigan State University Museum: Vertebrate specimens
- Royal Ontario Museum: Mammal specimens
- University of Alaska Museum of the North: University of Alaska Museum Mammal Collection
Identifiers
- Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 2478084
- Catalogue of Life Accepted Name Code: ITS-622052
- Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS) Taxonomic Serial Number (TSN): 621850
- IUCN ID: 22824
- Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 500204
Footnotes
- Bear Specialist Group 1996. In IUCN 2008. 2008 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. IUCNRedList.org. Downloaded July 20, 2008. [back]
