Spectacled bear

Its diet category is frugivore and its trophic level is herbivore. The species is listed as Vulnerable (VU) on the IUCN Red List, a threatened category, and has a gestation period of 225.5 days with 1.5 young per litter.

Weight

109.2 kg – 140 kgsrc for Weight

Length

Not recorded

Lifespan

36.4 years – 39.3 yearssrc for Lifespan

Diet

Frugivoresrc for Diet

Main food

Not recorded

Habitat

mountainsrc for Habitat

Gestation

226 days – 254 dayssrc for Gestation

Young per litter or clutch

1.5src for Young per litter or clutch

Age at maturity

4 yearssrc for Age at maturity

Active

At night (nocturnal)src for Active

Lifestyle

Terrestrialsrc for Lifestyle

Conservation status

Vulnerable (IUCN)src for Conservation status

Countries on record

Not recorded

Not recorded

The spectacled bear is listed as Vulnerable on the IUCN Red List: it faces a high risk of extinction in the wild.

1. LCLeast Concern
2. NTNear Threatened
3. VUVulnerable
4. ENEndangered
5. CRCritically Endangered
6. EWExtinct in the Wild
7. EXExtinct

Category via Wikidata (CC0). Find the full assessment on the IUCN Red List. See all Vulnerable species.

1. kingdomAnimalia
2. phylumChordata
3. classMammalia
4. orderCarnivora
5. familyUrsidae
6. genusTremarctos
7. SpeciesTremarctos ornatus (F. G. Cuvier, 1825)

Synonyms Tremarctos lasallei, Tremarctos ornatus majori, Ursus frugilegus, Ursus nasutus, Ursus ornatus, Ursus ornatus thomasi

Catalogue of LifeWikipediaiNaturalistWikidataIUCN Red List

VU, Vulnerable

Polar bear

Ursus maritimus

Ursidae

VU, Vulnerable

Giant panda

Ailuropoda melanoleuca

Ursidae

LC, Least Concern

Brown bear

Ursus arctos

Ursidae

LC, Least Concern

American black bear

Ursus americanus

Ursidae

VU, Vulnerable

Asian black bear

Ursus thibetanus

Ursidae

VU, Vulnerable

Sun bear

Helarctos malayanus

Ursidae

CompareSpectacled bear vs Polar bearSpectacled bear vs Giant pandaSpectacled bear vs Brown bearSpectacled bear vs American black bear

• An amniote life-history database to perform comparative analyses with birds, mammals, and reptiles · CC0 1.0 · E096-269
  Myhrvold, N.P., Baldridge, E., Chan, B., Sivam, D., Freeman, D.L. & Ernest, S.K.M. (2015) An amniote life-history database to perform comparative analyses with birds, mammals, and reptiles. Ecology 96: 3109. https://doi.org/10.1890/15-0846R.1. Data: https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.3563457.v1
• Catalogue of Life eXtended Release · CC BY 4.0 · 2026-10-16 XR
  Catalogue of Life (2026). Catalogue of Life eXtended Release, version 2026-10-16 XR. Catalogue of Life Foundation, Amsterdam, Netherlands. https://doi.org/10.48580/dgzlf
• Wikimedia Commons · per file (CC0 / public domain / CC BY green, CC BY-SA amber, anything else not displayed) · 2026-11-11
  Wikimedia Commons contributors. Wikimedia Commons. https://commons.wikimedia.org (each file credited to its author under its own licence).
• EltonTraits 1.0: species-level foraging attributes of the world's birds and mammals · CC0 1.0 · 1.0
  Wilman, H., Belmaker, J., Simpson, J., de la Rosa, C., Rivadeneira, M.M. & Jetz, W. (2014) EltonTraits 1.0: Species-level foraging attributes of the world's birds and mammals. Ecology 95: 2027. https://doi.org/10.1890/13-1917.1. Data: https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.3559887.v1
• Wikidata · CC0 1.0 · 2026-11-11
  Wikidata contributors. Wikidata. https://www.wikidata.org (data retrieved via the Wikidata Query Service).
• Wikipedia (English) · CC BY-SA 4.0 · 2026-11-11
  Wikipedia contributors. Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia. https://en.wikipedia.org (text under CC BY-SA 4.0; each block names its article and revision).

@misc{spectacled_bear_2026,
  title = {Spectacled bear (Tremarctos ornatus)},
  author = {{CreatureData}},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://creaturedata.com/animals/spectacled-bear},
  note = {Data as of 2026-11-11}
}