Tremarctos ornatus (F.G. Cuvier, 1825)
DISTRIBUTION
The Spectacled Bear is the only South American member of the bear family. Bears are distributed from Venezuela to the Argentine-Bolivian border, and occur on all three ranges of the Andes.3 Unbroken tracts of the Andes stretching more than 100 km, and extending over 3,000 m of elevation still exist for this species in the southern third of its range (Peru and Bolivia).6 There has been a sighting on the Colombian-Panamanian border, but there is no firm evidence of a resident population.3 The species can be found at elevations of between 450 m and 3,700 m.8
Range States: Argentina; Bolivia; Brazil; Colombia; Ecuador; Panama; Peru; Venezuela.
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