Scientific name:
Helarctos malayanus

Natural spread:
India

co it Malay-bear has the smallest representative of the bears we before us, if it can vary strongly also in its size and glasses-bear still is superior to it in height in individual male copies. it however rarely reaches a shoulder-height until 70 cm. its head is big and wide and possesses a long, from-extensible tongue, as well as immediately it lip-bear very movable, before-extensible lips. Its extremity is short, long and powerfully bekrallt. The Malay-bear possesses the most short-haired fur of all big-bears, with which it almost works as shorn. Mainly lacquer-black colored, the summer-bear carries a horseshoe-shaped one powerfully on the breast - until pale-orange insignia.

Way of life Malay-bears are Südostasiens day and twilight-animals. they live in the edge-zones and clearings of tropical and subtropical Urwälder where they around-climb nimbly in the trees and sleep also in the tree-caves there. Human settlements don't avoid it and are tolerated also as harmless skilled workers there.

Reproduction Like all bears, the Malay-bears live as loners, who visit the other sex only to the combination-time. This is distributed over the whole year, therefore doesn't limit on certain months. After a Tragzeit of approximately 96 days, the Bärin 1 brings to the world until rarer 2 kid. In the birth, the boys weigh approximately 325 g. Nothing known is over the youth-development of the Malay-bears until now, is however to be assumed, that it doesn't differ allzusehr from that of its next relative, the lip-bear, for itself.

Nutrition Malay-bears live mainly from fruits, berries and tender plant-shoots, but also from honey, insects and small vertebrates. They are just as skillful, persevering and powerful in the use of its powerful claws like the lip-bears. This quality lets it turn into a continuous problem for those zoological gardens, that employ itself with its attitude. They remove stone extraordinarily persevering for stone from the stonework of its enclosures so that one constantly is provided with repair-works.

Continuance Probably the Malay-bear always was rare, however it is regarded as endangered today.