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Ursus thibetanus (Asian Black Bear; Asiatic black bear)

Synonyms: Arcticonus thibetanus; Selenarctos thibetanus

Wikipedia Abstract

The Asian black bear (Ursus thibetanus, previously known as Selenarctos thibetanus) is also known as moon bear and white-chested bear. It is a medium-sized bear species and largely adapted to arboreal life. It lives in the Himalayas, in the northern parts of the Indian subcontinent, Korea, northeastern China, the Russian Far East, the Honshū and Shikoku islands of Japan, and Taiwan. It is classified as vulnerable by the IUCN, mostly because of deforestation and hunting for its body parts.
View Wikipedia Record: Ursus thibetanus

Infraspecies

Ursus thibetanus formosanus (Taiwan black bear)
Ursus thibetanus gedrosianus (Baluchistan bear)
Ursus thibetanus japonicus (Japanese black bear)
Ursus thibetanus laniger (Kashmir black bear)
Ursus thibetanus mupinensis (Chinese black bear)
Ursus thibetanus thibetanus (Tibetan black bear)
Ursus thibetanus ussuricus (Manchurian black bear)

Endangered Species

Status: Vulnerable
View IUCN Record: Ursus thibetanus

EDGE Analysis

Uniqueness Scale: Similiar (0) 
8
 Unique (100)
Uniqueness & Vulnerability Scale: Similiar & Secure (0) 
54
 Unique & Vulnerable (100)
ED Score: 16.42
EDGE Score: 4.24
Learn more at EDGE of Existence programme

Attributes

Adult Weight [1]  228.731 lbs (103.75 kg)
Birth Weight [1]  1.021 lbs (463 g)
Diet [2]  Carnivore (Invertebrates), Carnivore (Vertebrates), Frugivore, Herbivore
Diet - Endothermic [2]  10 %
Diet - Fruit [2]  40 %
Diet - Invertibrates [2]  10 %
Diet - Plants [2]  30 %
Diet - Scavenger [2]  10 %
Forages - Ground [2]  100 %
Female Maturity [1]  3 years
Male Maturity [1]  3 years
Gestation [1]  7 months 18 days
Hibernates [3]  Yes
Litter Size [1]  2
Litters / Year [4]  1
Maximum Longevity [1]  39 years
Nocturnal [3]  Yes
Snout to Vent Length [4]  5.412 feet (165 cm)
Weaning [1]  3 months 9 days
Habitat Substrate [3]  Arboreal, Terrestrial

Ecoregions

Protected Areas

Biodiversity Hotspots

Name Location Endemic Species Website
Himalaya Bhutan, China, India, Myanmar, Nepal, Pakistan No
Indo-Burma Bangladesh, Cambodia, China, India, Laos, Myanmar, Thailand, Viet Nam No
Japan Japan No
Mountains of Central Asia Afghanistan, China, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan No
Mountains of Southwest China China, Myanmar No

Prey / Diet

Ficus punctata[5]
Prunus serrulata var. pubescens[6]

Prey / Diet Overlap

Competing SpeciesCommon Prey Count
Capricornis crispus (Japanese serow)1
Cervus nippon (Sika deer)1
Martes melampus (Japanese Marten)1
Paguma larvata (Masked Palm Civet)1
Syrmaticus soemmerringii (Copper Pheasant)1

Consumers

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
♦ 5"Fig-eating by vertebrate frugivores: a global review", MIKE SHANAHAN, SAMSON SO, STEPHEN G. COMPTON and RICHARD CORLETT, Biol. Rev. (2001), 76, pp. 529–572
♦ 6Fruit phenology of Prunus jamasakura and the feeding habit of the Asiatic black bear as a seed disperser, Shinsuke Koike, Shinsuke Kasai, Koji Yamazaki, Kengo Furubayashi, Ecol Res (2008) 23: 385–392
♦ 7Gibson, D. I., Bray, R. A., & Harris, E. A. (Compilers) (2005). Host-Parasite Database of the Natural History Museum, London
♦ 8International Flea Database
♦ 9Nunn, C. L., and S. Altizer. 2005. The Global Mammal Parasite Database: An Online Resource for Infectious Disease Records in Wild Primates. Evolutionary Anthroplogy 14:1-2.
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