Asian Black Bear

  


                                     The Asian Black Bear
    
      Today on Animals and nature well discover about the ASIAN BLACK BEAR from
       Asia, Its also known as the moon-bear or white chested bear, a medium size bear
       from the bear family. It lives in the Himalayas, Korea, and more places , but this
       bear is being hunted by humans.
                                                                                                                                                                      

     
 1. What is a Black Bear
 A Asian Black Bear is a medium size bear that is a medium size than a Grizzly Bear and its fur is black like the original black bear ( that exits in the USA) its black but in its chest there's a white v chest mark and its jaw is  bigger and more mobile than a Grizzly and its skull is small but massive, an Adult males have skulls measuring 311.7 to 328 mm (12.27 to 12.91 inch), a females skull measures 291.6-315 mm (11.42-12.40 in)  and 

2. Behavior  
The Asian Black Bear are live in family groups of two adults and two children, they can also climb trees and mountains and will climb to feed, sun, relax, fight enemies, and hibernate. They will half of their 15% of their life is in trees which use sticks and leaves to make a small bed for them to give birth , they might not hibernate a lot only in colder places, northern ranges, and lower elevations, they make sounds, roars, groans, and slurping sounds( when eating)  

3.Feeding 
Asian Black Bear are omnivorous, and will feed on insects, beetle, larvae, garbage, mushrooms, fruits, honey, and acorns. Thought their more carnivorous than brown bears, Asian Black Bears are not as specialized in their diet as pandas are, Black Bears will eat pine nuts and acorns of the previous year in April-May period. They will eat monkeys, deer , wild boar , and buffaloes. 

  4.Black Bear VS. Predators
 Asian Black Bears will be occasionally attacked by tigers and brown bears, although  leopards.Packs of wolves are know to kill a fully grown Black Bear and Lynx will kill and eat the  cubs and Black Bear easily could kill a leopard in heavily vegetated lands, while in open  areas, Leopards overpower Black Bears. Brown Bears are known to steal food from Black  Bears, Tigers regularly prey on young bears but are known to kill fully grown Black Bears. 

5. Black Bears VS. Humans 
Black Bears have been listed as an Endangered do to the main habitat being cut down by humans, and over 430,000 in regions the Bears have decreased. Over hunting on Black Bears as a sport in Japan and Russia in, 75-100 Black Bears are harvested annually, thought 500 a year are reportedly harvested illegally. They are used as cloth, shoes, and medicines. 


6. Conclusion 
The Asian Black Bears are very special to nature do to they prevent cockroaches from growing to much and they dont deserve being killed or hunted, maybe if we learned more about animals we would understand they are also living creatures, that breathe like us and more.