Spectacled bear and PETA.

Hi! It's August already - the last month of the summer 2011! Today I am going to tell about an interesting bear and a very important organization for animals.

Spectacled bear (Tremarctos ornatus), also knonw as the Adean bear or ukuko, jukumari or ucumari is the last remaining short-faced bear.

It lives in South America - Panama, Venezuela, Brazil, Colombia, Peru, Ecuador, Bolivia and Argentina. They can live in rain forests, mountain meadows and seacoasts. There are about 2000-2400 specatcled bears only because of disafforestaion.


Spectacled bear has got black fur with abeige-coloured marking across its face and upper chest but not all Adean bears have those markings. Males can weight 100 – 200 kilos or 220 – 440 lbs, females 35 – 82 kilos or 77 – 181 lbs. Males are about 1.5 meters long.

They eat about 5 - 7% meat, they eat a lot of palm nuts, cactus, orchid bulbs and fruit. They don't attack humans. Spectacled bears are used in Chinese medicine and they are very expensive. Because of using them in medicine they are very rare now.

Info: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spectacled_bear

PETA or People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals has over 2 million members right now. This organization is one of the biggest and most important for animals and nature.

PETA is against animal testing, eating meat, using animals in show-business and using skins for making leather. They educate people and believe that animals have rights too.

This organizations was made in 1980. First PETA's case was the precedent-setting 1981 Silver Spring monkeys case. They helped to arrest animal experimenter for the first time.

 

PETA has helped many animals and has made many campaigns against unfair people and organizations like McDonald, Donna Karan, Mary Kate and Ashley Olsen and Kentucky Fried Chicken.

You can support, donate and read more here - http://www.peta.org/

In the next article I will tell you about African Golden Cat and IUCN!

Anette,