Sentence examples for moon bear from inspiring English sources
noun
The Asian black bear, Ursus thibetanus.
Sky Hawk captures the need to protect eagles in Scotland and elsewhere, White Dolphin does the same for dolphins under threat from a fishing community, and the forthcoming Moon Bear tells how a boy working in a city bear-farm determines to return a bear cub he raises back to its natural habitat.
Other books about bears include Sheila Lavelle's Ursula Bear, the delightful story of a little girl who can turn herself into a bear with the help of a magic spell she has learnt from a library book and Gill Lewis's Moon Bear, the story of a young boy's fight to save a bear cub from a cruel future on a bear farm.
Gill Lewis's Moon Bear (set in Laos) gives a harrowing account of the horrors of bear farming.
I also love Moon Bear by Gill Lewis.
The bulk of the animals are Asiatic black bears, a threatened species better known as the moon bear for the distinctive white crescent that arcs across its chest.
Asiatic black bear (Ursus thibetanus), also called Himalayan bear, Tibetan bear, or moon bear, member of the bear family (Ursidae) found in the Himalayas, Southeast Asia, and part of eastern Asia, including Japan.
Seen with their cubs, hunting, napping or moongazing, these bears range from the familiar polar bears and black bears to sun bears, sloth bears and moon bears.
On site is Free the Bears, where more than 20 Asian black moon bears, rescued from the illegal wildlife trade, are kept in enclosures.
The center, located inside Tam Dao National Park, north of Hanoi, currently houses 104 Asiatic black bears, also known as moon bears for the white crescent of fur on their chests.
Asiatic black bears — they're also known as moon bears for the crescent of white on their chests — can grow to 400 pounds or more, but the cages at the Hanoi farm were just 4 feet by 5 feet, and most were not high enough for the bears to stand up.
They play with koalas, get close to colossal Komodo dragons, communicate with gorillas, feed fruit to moon bears, release a sea turtle back into the wild, pet a newborn giraffe and meet gigantic white rhinos and rain forest ocelots for the first time.
