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Helarctos malayanus (Sun bear)

Synonyms: Helarctos euryspilus; Ursus malayanus

Wikipedia Abstract

The sun bear (Helarctos malayanus) is a bear found in tropical forest habitats of Southeast Asia. It is classified as Vulnerable by IUCN as the large-scale deforestation that has occurred throughout Southeast Asia over the past three decades has dramatically reduced suitable habitat for the sun bear. The global population is thought to have declined by more than 30% over the past three bear generations.
View Wikipedia Record: Helarctos malayanus

Infraspecies

Helarctos malayanus euryspilus (Malayan sun bear)
Helarctos malayanus malayanus (Malayan sun bear)

Endangered Species

Status: Vulnerable
View IUCN Record: Helarctos malayanus

EDGE Analysis

Uniqueness Scale: Similiar (0) 
8
 Unique (100)
Uniqueness & Vulnerability Scale: Similiar & Secure (0) 
54
 Unique & Vulnerable (100)
ED Score: 16.5
EDGE Score: 4.25
Learn more at EDGE of Existence programme

Attributes

Adult Weight [1]  101.413 lbs (46.00 kg)
Birth Weight [1]  325 grams
Diet [2]  Carnivore (Invertebrates), Carnivore (Vertebrates), Frugivore, Granivore
Diet - Endothermic [2]  20 %
Diet - Fruit [2]  20 %
Diet - Invertibrates [2]  50 %
Diet - Seeds [2]  10 %
Forages - Ground [2]  100 %
Female Maturity [1]  6 years 6 months
Gestation [1]  3 months 5 days
Litter Size [1]  1
Maximum Longevity [1]  36 years
Nocturnal [3]  Yes
Snout to Vent Length [4]  4.297 feet (131 cm)
Weaning [1]  90 days

Ecoregions

Protected Areas

Biodiversity Hotspots

Name Location Endemic Species Website
Indo-Burma Bangladesh, Cambodia, China, India, Laos, Myanmar, Thailand, Viet Nam No
Sundaland Brunei Darussalam, Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand No

Prey / Diet

Canarium pilosum[5]
Durio zibethinus (durian)[5]
Erycibe maingayi[5]
Ficus consociata[5]
Ficus crassiramea stupenda[5]

Prey / Diet Overlap

Range Map

External References

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1de Magalhaes, J. P., and Costa, J. (2009) A database of vertebrate longevity records and their relation to other life-history traits. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 22(8):1770-1774
♦ 2Hamish Wilman, Jonathan Belmaker, Jennifer Simpson, Carolina de la Rosa, Marcelo M. Rivadeneira, and Walter Jetz. 2014. EltonTraits 1.0: Species-level foraging attributes of the world's birds and mammals. Ecology 95:2027
♦ 3Myers, P., R. Espinosa, C. S. Parr, T. Jones, G. S. Hammond, and T. A. Dewey. 2006. The Animal Diversity Web (online). Accessed February 01, 2010 at animaldiversity.org
♦ 4Nathan P. Myhrvold, Elita Baldridge, Benjamin Chan, Dhileep Sivam, Daniel L. Freeman, and S. K. Morgan Ernest. 2015. An amniote life-history database to perform comparative analyses with birds, mammals, and reptiles. Ecology 96:3109
♦ 5Seed dispersal by the sun bear Helarctos malayanus in Central Borneo, Kim McConkey and Mauro Galetti, Journal of Tropical Ecology (1999) 15:237–241
Ecoregions provided by World Wide Fund For Nature (WWF). WildFinder: Online database of species distributions, ver. 01.06 Wildfinder Database
Biodiversity Hotspots provided by Critical Ecosystem Partnership Fund
Abstract provided by DBpedia licensed under a Creative Commons License
Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0