polar bear, spectacled bear, sloth bear and sun bear. Some of the most famous types of bear are actually subspecies. Grizzly bears, for example, are a subspecies of brown bear found in parts of ...

High in the Peruvian Andes lives a very special bear. One of the rarest large carnivores on the planet, the spectacled bear is the 'real' Paddington. Over the course of a few months the curious ...

Andean bears (also known as spectacled bears) are the only bear species native to South America, inhabiting the Andes Mountains and surrounding ranges from western Venezuela to Bolivia.