Asiatic Black Bear facts 🐻 Asian black bear 🐻 moon bear 🐻 white-chested bear 🐻

Welcome to the world of amazing animals. The Asian black bear, known as the Asiatic black bear, moon bear, and white-chested bear, is a medium-sized bear species native to Asia that is largely adapted to an arboreal lifestyle. It lives in the Himalayas, in the northern parts of the Indian subcontinent, the Korean Peninsula, northeastern China, the Russian Far East, the Honsh and Shikoku islands of Japan and Taiwan. It is classified as vulnerable by the International Union for Conservation of Nature, IUCN, mostly because of deforestation and hunting for its body parts. Although largely herbivorous, Asian black bears can be very aggressive towards humans who frequently trap or kill them for traditional medicine. The Asian black bear is has a light brown muzzle and a distinct white patch on the chest, which sometimes has the shape of a V. Its ears are bell-shaped, proportionately longer than those of other bears, and stick out sideways from the head. Thank you for watching, let us protect our wildlife.