Taxon:
Tremarctos ornatus

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Scientific Name
Tremarctos ornatus
Common Name
Andean Bear
Taxa Group
mammal
Environment
terrestrial
Move Mode
walk

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    Data from: Study "Using conservation technologies to understand the life of Andean Bears in and near Manu National Park" [part]
    (2024-12-04) Pillco Huarcaya, Ruthmery; Whitworth, Andrew; Thomas, Mark
    Due to Andean bears' propensity for inhabiting challenging environments and terrain, their wild ecology remains poorly understood, especially when compared to other members of the Ursidae family. In one of the steepest, wettest regions of the Andes, the Kosñipata Valley of southeastern Peru, we attached and retrieved camera-borne collars on three wild free-ranging Andean bears. From just one longer-term camera collar deployed on a single individual over a period of four months, we observed a variety of rare or previously undocumented natural history observations. These include courtship and mating behaviors, social interactions with conspecifics, novel dietary items of previously unrecorded fruit consumption, cannibalism, potential infanticide, the sole documented case of primate consumption, and evidence of geophagy. The wealth of novel natural history insights gained from just four months of camera collar data of this poorly studied species has elucidated numerous avenues warranting further investigation.