Category: Bears
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Bears of the world – the Sun Bear
For the second article, after the moon bear, we would like to say something about the sun bear (Helarctos malayanus). Very little is known about this bear, and since probably it’s the rarest, it may disappear before we could know more about it. It lives in tropical rainforests of the Southeast Asia, from Bangladesh till the islands of…
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Bears of the world – the Asian Black Bear
In the coming weeks, we would like to discover with you the different bear species of the world and to understand better if and how they are threatened and/or exploited by man. We will do it through a series of eight articles that will be published on our blog, one for each different species 🙂…
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Bear constellations
Since ancient times, men have recognized the silhouette of the bear in the sky, in the Big Bear (Ursa Major) and Little Bear (Ursa Minor) constellations. Being able to see these shapes in the stary sky is a well-spread knowledge, quite often it’s one of the few constellations that people know. According to the Greek…