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Aisien black beir

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Asie black beir
Scientific classification edit
Kinrick: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Cless: Mammalia
Order: Carnivora
Faimily: Ursidae
Genus: Ursus
Species: U. thibetanus
Binomial name
Ursus thibetanus
(G. Cuvier, 1823)
Subspecies

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Asie black beir range
(broun – extant, black – extinct, daurk grey – presence uncertain)
Synonyms

Selenarctos thibetanus
Ursus torquatus (Blandford 1888)

The Asie black beir (Ursus thibetanus, previously kent as Selenarctos thibetanus), kent as the muin beir an white-chestit beir an aw, is a medium-sized beir speshies native tae Asie an lairgely adaptit tae arboreal life.[2][3]

References

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  1. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species, ''Ursus thibetanus'' Asiatic black bear, Vulnerable Archived 2012-03-23 at the Wayback Machine. (PDF). Retrieved on 2011-09-26.
  2. Montgomery, S. (2002). Search for the golden moon bear: science and adventure in Southeast Asia. Simon & Schuster. ISBN 978-0-7432-0584-9. Retrieved 26 September 2011.
  3. Heptner, V. G. & Naumov, N. P. (1998). White-chested, black bear. Pages 713–733 in: Mammals of the Soviet Union Vol. II Part 1a, Sirenia and Carnivora (Sea cows; Wolves and Bears). Washington, D.C. : Smithsonian Institution Libraries and National Science Foundation.