In the mountains of Peru, where ancient cloud forests meet the Amazon Rainforest, an Andean bear made scientific history. For four months, a camera collar captured the wild male’s daily life ...
The footage give clues to the range of plants the bears eat and how they mate, information important for conservation.
A team of wildlife ecologists at Asociación para la Conservación de la Cuenca Amazónica, Peru, has managed to record four months of previously undocumented natural behaviors in Andean bears ...
Andean bears, Tremarctos ornatus, are considered a “rare” and “elusive” species, keeping to the high peaks of the Andes mountains, according to a Dec. 4 news release from National Geographic.