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Sun Bear

Description:   The Sun Bear is also called the Malay bear or honey bear.    It is the smallest of the bears and weighs less than 100 pounds.   Sun bears have short, sleek black fur with a golden or white colored crescent shape on their chest and the same lighter color around their muzzle and eyes.

Habitat:   Sun Bears prefer lowland tropical rain forests.   They are found in southeast Asia; India, Burma, southern China, Laos, Vietnam, Thailand, Malaysia, and Indonesia.

Food:   Sun Bears are extremely fond of honey, so they are called the “honey bear”.   They eat any small rodent, lizard, small bird or insect they can find.   Bees, termites and worms make up a large part of the diet.   They also enjoy buds, fruit and, occasionally, "fresh" carrion.

More Pictures and Sounds  

• ZooNet Image Archieves - Sun Bear

More Information 

• The Virtual Zoo - The general information about bears 
• GeoZoo: Sun Bear (Helarctos malayanus)! 
• Animals | Sun Bear - Chaffee Zoological Gardens of Fresno 
• Sun Bears - by "THE BEAR DEN" 
• Bear TAG - Sun Bear 
• Bears.org - Sun Bear

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Last modified : April 5, 2000
Created by Quaehee Yu