Ursus thibetanus 3 (Wroclaw zoo)🐻

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SpeciesCarnivoraUrsidae
Carnivores

🐻Asian black bear

Ursus thibetanus G

Kragbjörn (Ursus thibetanus) är en björn närbesläktad med svartbjörnen. Den lever i lövskogar och i tropisk regnskog.

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8
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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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