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The document discusses the sun bear, the only bear species found in Indonesia. It has a solitary nature except when females are with offspring. It has a diet consisting of honey, fruit, berries, roots, shoots, insects, eggs, frogs, and small birds. It is the smallest of the world's eight bear species and has adaptations like a thick coat and long claws to survive in its habitat.

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Sun Bear Infographic

The document discusses the sun bear, the only bear species found in Indonesia. It has a solitary nature except when females are with offspring. It has a diet consisting of honey, fruit, berries, roots, shoots, insects, eggs, frogs, and small birds. It is the smallest of the world's eight bear species and has adaptations like a thick coat and long claws to survive in its habitat.

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Sun Bear Sun bear is the only bear species in

Indonesia. Except for females with their


offspring, sun bear usually solitary. Its
Yayasan Konservasi
Alam Nusantara
Helarctos malayanus diet consists of honey, fruit, berries,
roots, shoots, insects, eggs, frog, and
small birds.

Its eyes are more Sun bear has small,


forward-facing than those of rounded ears.
longer-snouted bears like polar
bears.

The sun bear’s jaws


Its common name comes
provide a powerful
from the white or
bite force and are
yellowish crescent
often used to tear
marking on its chest,
into trees to get at
which looks like the rising
the burrowing
or setting sun.
insects beneath the
bark. Strong jaws Sun bear has an
Sun bear’s coat is unusually thick and teeth even help extremely long tongue
and dense to protect against this bear open compared with its size
twigs, branches, falls, and heavy coconuts! which ranges from 20 to
rain. 25 cm in length and
uses to extract honey or
reach insects.
Sun bear has long, curved
claws. Claws can reach 18
Sun bear is active at
inches in length. They are
night (nocturnal). It
used for climbing, digging of
Polar bear Brown bear Sun bear sleeps and sun baths in
food, and protecting itself
trees.
The sun bear is the smallest of the from predators.
world’s eight bear species. Bornean
Sun bear does not
sun bear (Helarctus malayanus
hibernate like
eurispylus) is smaller than sumatran
The sun bear occasionally stands cold-weather bear. Its
sun bear (Helarctus malayanus
upright. But when walking, using all four tropical habitat provides
malayanus). legs. food sources year-round.
Source: Kawasan Wisata Pendidikan Lingkungan Hidup (KWPLH)
©Koen Setyawan/TNC

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