Ursus thibetanus 3 (Wroclaw zoo)🐻

Photo: Guérin Nicolas (messages) · CC BY-SA 3.0

SpeciesCarnivoraUrsidae
Carnivores

🐻Asian black bear

Ursus thibetanus G

De Aziatische zwarte beer of kraagbeer (Ursus thibetanus) is een roofdier uit de familie van de beren (Ursidae). De wetenschappelijke naam van de soort werd gepubliceerd door Georges Cuvier in 1823.

Text: Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Videos
8
Photos
2
Measurements
12
vs you
≈ 1.6× your weight
Also called
Ursus thibetanus, Asiatic Black Bear
Conservation status
VUVulnerable

IUCN Red List assessment, 2020.

Population trendDecreasing
Key measurements
Body mass
100 kg
Body length
1.65 m
Shoulder height
not recorded
Top speed
not recorded
Bite force
not recorded
Maximum lifespan
39 years
All measurements ↓
Facts and figures

Everything we know about the Asian black bear

Typical adult figures. Where a value is an estimate rather than a measurement, it says so.

Body mass
100 kg
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Other figures ↓

Source: COMBINE · v1 (Soria et al. 2021) · CC BY 4.0

Figures vary

  • 104 kgAnAgeAnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR)data quality: acceptable
Body length
1.65 m
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Source: COMBINE · v1 (Soria et al. 2021) · CC BY 4.0

Brain mass
325 g
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Source: COMBINE · v1 (Soria et al. 2021) · CC BY 4.0

Maximum lifespan
39 years
COMBINE
Other figures ↓

Source: COMBINE · v1 (Soria et al. 2021) · CC BY 4.0

Figures vary

  • 39 yearsAnAgeAnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR)data quality: acceptable
Generation length
9.99 years
COMBINE
Details ↓

Source: COMBINE · v1 (Soria et al. 2021) · CC BY 4.0

Age at maturity
2.8 years
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Source: COMBINE · v1 (Soria et al. 2021) · CC BY 4.0

Gestation
213 days
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Source: COMBINE · v1 (Soria et al. 2021) · CC BY 4.0

Figures vary

  • 228 daysAnAgeAnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR)data quality: acceptable
Litter size
about 2
COMBINE
Other figures ↓

Source: COMBINE · v1 (Soria et al. 2021) · CC BY 4.0

Figures vary

  • 2AnAgeAnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR)data quality: acceptable
Trophic level
Herbivore
COMBINE
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Source: COMBINE · v1 (Soria et al. 2021) · CC BY 4.0

Activity cycle
Crepuscular / mixed
COMBINE
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Source: COMBINE · v1 (Soria et al. 2021) · CC BY 4.0

Home range
0.7 km²
COMBINE
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Source: COMBINE · v1 (Soria et al. 2021) · CC BY 4.0

Volume l
100 Laverage
Details ↓

Body mass at ~1.0 kg/L, the density of vertebrate tissue.

average = a mean across sexes or species in a group.

Not recorded for Asian black bear yet: shoulder height, top speed, bite force.

Where it sits

Family tree

  1. kingdomAnimalia
  2. ›phylumChordata
  3. ›classMammalia
  4. ›orderCarnivora
  5. ›familyUrsidae
  6. ›genusUrsus
  7. ›speciesUrsus thibetanus
Full lineage
  1. classMammals · Mammalia
  2. orderCarnivorans · Carnivora
  3. suborderCaniformia
  4. familyUrsidae
All 13 branches ↓
  1. kingdomMetazoa
  2. phylumChordata
  3. subphylumCraniata
  4. subphylumVertebrata
  5. superclassGnathostomata
  6. superclassSarcopterygii
  7. superclassTetrapoda
  8. classMammals · Mammalia
  9. subclassTheria
  10. superorderLaurasiatheria
  11. orderCarnivorans · Carnivora
  12. suborderCaniformia
  13. familyUrsidae
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More about the Asian black bear

Closest relative on this site
🐻 American black bear — last shared an ancestor ≈ 1.9 million years ago.
What it eats
fruit40%
leaves, roots and other plants30%
insects and other invertebrates10%
warm-blooded animals10%
carrion10%
In other languages
niedźwiedź himalajski (pl), Ursus thibetanus (es), örvös medve (hu), Kragbjörn (sv), دب أسود آسيوي (ar), Aziatische zwarte beer (nl) … and 28 more languages

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