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Since the earliest collection of Chinese writings, the Chinese language has given the bear many different names, including mò (貘, ancient Chinese name for giant panda), [7] huāxióng (花熊; "spotted bear") and zhúxióng (竹熊; "bamboo bear"). [8] The most popular names in China today are dàxióngmāo (大熊貓; lit.
Sub-species of the brown bear include the Himalayan brown bear and the Tibetan blue bear in Tibet, and the Ussuri brown bear in Northeast China. The sun bear is found in Yunnan. Bears, especially black bears, are also raised in captivity to harvest their bile for use in traditional Chinese medicine.
The Asian black bear (Ursus thibetanus), also known as the Asiatic black bear, moon bear and white-chested bear, ... Many workers of Chinese and Korean origin ...
The giant panda (Ailuropoda melanoleuca) is the national animal of China. This is a list of the mammal species recorded in China.There are 495 mammal species in China, of which thirteen are critically endangered, twenty-four are endangered, forty-seven are vulnerable, and seven are near threatened.
The Chinese name xiongmao (熊貓, "bear cat"), which originally referred to the cat-sized lesser panda, appears in two respected 1930s Chinese-Chinese dictionaries defining the giant panda. The 1936 first edition Cihai definition summarized the giant panda's modern history, mostly cited the activity of foreigners, and made two mistakes ...
Bears have thus been thought to predict the future and shaman were believed to have been capable of transforming into bears. [140] There is evidence of prehistoric bear worship, though this is disputed by archaeologists. [141] It is possible that bear worship existed in early Chinese and Ainu cultures. [142]
The Sichuan Giant Panda Sanctuaries (simplified Chinese: 四川大熊猫栖息地; traditional Chinese: 四川大熊貓棲息地; pinyin: Sìchuān Dàxióngmāo Qīxīdì) located in southwest Sichuan province of China, is the home to more than 30% of the world's giant pandas and is among the most important sites for the captive breeding of these pandas.
The sun bear (Helarctos malayanus) is a bear species in the family Ursidae (the only species in the genus Helarctos) occurring in the tropical forests of Southeast Asia.It is the smallest bear species, standing nearly 70 cm (28 in) at the shoulder and weighing 25–65 kg (55–143 lb).