Does any bear wears glasses?
Bear wearing glasses
The truth is that the visual appearence of bears face gives the spectator an impression that it has put on a pair of glasses. In reality lines of lighter fur of white colour encircle its eyes and these circular markings around the eyes look spectacles from a distance. This spectacled bear is found in tropical south America. It is very small in size. An interesting pattern is made on its facil. Area when a creamy yellow snout with fur of the same colour runs down from the nose and sometimes it makes a ring around the eyes and then cross the nose. These rings are the so-called glasses.
It is also called the Andean bear. Some of them have only the button half of their glasses wheras some have the eye-rings so thick that that completely fill yhe face. Although there is only one species of the spectacled bear Tremarctos ornatus there are different kinds of facial marking within the same species. Though all bears can climb trees the spectacled bear is particularly expert at clamering through the branches to feed on leaves fruits and nuts. The ‘spectacled bear’ is the smallest among the bears. The adult is upto 64cms 2feet at the shoulders 120 to 180 cms in total length with about a 7 cm long tail. The colour of its shaggy coat varies from dark brown to black. It weights less than 135kg. Aithough it may feed on small mammals deer guanacos and vicunas its diet mainly consists of fruits and leaves. It usually lives in cool mountain forests.