the collar-bear is black-bear or Baribal (Ursus americanus) with the North American one relative nearer and was put with it into a common, own type Euarctos earlier. its spread-area is China and inner-Asia. Within this spread-area, the biggest collar-bears live into East-Siberia and the smallest in Japan.
The deep mountain-forests are the habitat of the collar-bear. Here, it ascends as far as into a height of 4000 m.
Shape The collar-bear doesn't have its name, is believed as always wrongly, from the collar-similar Y-förmigen drawing on its breast but it owes it its in the neck and at the shoulders collar-nicely extended hair. Collar-bears, until on the white breast-drawing and the whitish sub-lip as well as the reddish muzzle-sides, are colored ebony. The fur is long-haired and is to be done the body narrowly. it reaches with a total-length of 1,40-2,00 m and a weight for 200 kg approximately the dimensionses of the Baribals, works more powerful than this through its stature and the imposing collar, however. its claws are short, and like like with the black-bear forms a straight, unbroken line the nose-back with the forehead. The ear-mussels are very big in the relationship to the head and let closed on a fine hearing.
Nutrition and way of life Admittedly the collar-bear lives the most next from animal food it polar bear from all the bear, however this share still is in the comparison vanishing small to the total-food-quantity. In the most important thing, also it lives on plant-food, as acorns and nuts, with which it fattens himself formally. it climbs skillfully and often on trees and harvests the wished food so directly.
Even if big-livestock and people of attacking collar-bears should be the big exception, so however these skilled workers are bad ruffians, who take second place to the polar bears with reference to its aggressiveness - at least with the attitude in zoological gardens - about nothing. They reach to foreign, not with them got accustomed bears, they often kill these with ease.
In the wild, they rather avoid squabblings. So, they admittedly become in many areas of its spread-area because of its encroachments on cornfields and loved such not exactly, however is not feared by the inhabitants for it there either - and killed.
Reproduction The collar-bear likes to set up its silence-camp for itself trees fallen under the roots. Here, also the Bärin tosses after a Tragzeit of 6-8 months in January until February 1 - 4, on average 1-2 relatively little developed young, that weigh approximately 350-380 g. they open the eyes after 24 -34 days and take between the 85. and 90. Meet the first solid food to itself.
Endangering The continuance of the collar-bear declines world-wide, and the type is regarded as endangered meanwhile. In Russia and Japan, the occurrences should still be secured.
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