Spectacled Bear Standing in Water at Antwerp Zoo in Antwerp, Belgium - Encircle Photos

Spectacled Bear Standing in Water at Antwerp Zoo in Antwerp, Belgium

The only bear that lives in South America is this black spectacled bear who is wading in a pond. It’s amazing that males can grow over 400 pounds on a primarily herbivorous diet. The increasing loss of their Venezuelan and Columbian habit due to extensive logging and the demand for their gall bladder as a Chinese medicine are threatening their native population. If you visit the Antwerp Zoo in Belgium, then congratulate this family for the birth of their cub in March, 2013.

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