Tibetan brown bear-SIKKIM

A rare and elusive bear, the Tibetan brown bear, has been recently sighted in Sikkim, making it the first confirmed record of the animal being sighted in India.

Tibetan Brown Bear

The Tibetan brown bear, also known as the Tibetan blue bear, is one of the rarest subspecies of bears in the world and is rarely sighted in the wild.
Scientific Name: Ursus arctos pruinosus
Distribution:
- Historically found mainly on the alpine eastern Tibetan plateau (4,500 to 5,000 metres) in eastern Tibet, western China, Nepal, and Bhutan.
- Remaining bears in the wild seem to be confined to eastern Tibet and Bhutan.
Habitat: It inhabits alpine forests, meadows, and steppes, close to the tree line.
This rare bear is very different from the more commonly found Himalayan black bear in terms of its appearance, habitat, and behaviour.
Features:
- It has shaggy, dark brown to black fur, a cream to cinnamon face, and a white collar that broadens from the shoulders to the chest.
- It has small ears covered with long black fur.
- Lifespan: around 20 to 30 years.
- Its sense of smell is much more acute than its hearing and sight.
- They are solitary, but the territories between two Himalayan brown bears have been seen to overlap. They are one of the most terrestrial of the bears.
- It feeds on marmots and alpine vegetation.

Conservation Status:

- IUCN Red List: Least Concern
- CITES: Appendix I
- Wildlife Protection Act of 1972: Schedule II

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