If not, in what kind of terrain to they live?
2006-07-18 20:57:24 · 3 answers · asked by Iain T 3 in Environment
The Andean Bears make their habitat around the Andes tropical basin, where an abundance of water and vegetation provides an adequate supplement to their very basic dietary needs of roots, leaves, shoots, berries, occasionally insects, rodents and carrion. They are nocturnal and crepuscular, and do not hibernate (though they will den up in inclement weather). Being an arboreal bear, the Spectacled Bear lives mostly in dens near high canopy tropical rainforests, or occasionally in the surrounding trees to avoid danger of predatory mammals.
The young bears have an instinctive urge to climb trees, rocks, and cliffsides from birth as the inordinately protective mother teaches it to reach the highest and most nutritious foods.
2006-07-18 21:04:21 · answer #1 · answered by rhul2008 2 · 3⤊ 2⤋
Mountainous regions of tropical cloud forests, high-altitude savanna, scrublands and humid forests
2006-07-19 07:25:21 · answer #2 · answered by John P 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No they live in the Andes Ker ching!!
2006-07-19 04:01:38 · answer #3 · answered by Begbie 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋