List of bears

Taxobox
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name = Bear
fossil_range = Early Miocene - Recent

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image_caption = Brown bear at the Pyrenees Animal Park.
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Chordata
classis = Mammalia
ordo = Carnivora
subordo = Caniformia
superfamilia = Ursoidea
familia = Ursidae
familia_authority = G. Fischer de Waldheim, 1817
subdivision_ranks = Genera
subdivision =
*"Ailuropoda"
*"Helarctos"
*"Melursus"
*"Ursus"
*"Tremarctos"
*"Agriarctos" †
*"Amphicticeps" †
*"Amphicynodon" †
*"Arctodus" †
*"Cephalogale" †
*"Indarctos" †
*"Parictis" †
*"Plionarctos" †
*"Ursavus" †
*"Kolponomos" †This is a list of bears.

Types of bears

* American Black Bear
** Cinnamon Bear
** Kermode Bear
* Asiatic Black Bear
** Baluchistan Bear
** Formosan Black Bear
** Pakistan Black Bear
* Brown Bear
** Atlas Bear
** Bergman's Bear
** Blue Bear
** Eurasian Brown Bear
** European Brown Bear
** Gobi Bear
** Grizzly Bear
** Himalayan Brown Bear
** Himalayan Red Bear
** Hokkaido Brown Bear
** Kamchatka Brown Bear
** Kodiak Bear
** Marsican Brown Bear (critically endangered)
** Mexican Grizzly Bear
** Siberian Brown Bear
** Syrian Brown Bear
* Giant Panda
** Qinling Panda
* Sloth Bear
** Sri Lankan Sloth Bear
* Sun Bear
* Polar Bear
* Ursid hybrid
** Grizzly–polar bear hybrid
* Spectacled Bear

Extinct bear species

* Agriotherium
* Ailuropoda microta
* Arctodus simus
* Bear dog
* Cave bear
* Cephalogale
* Dwarf Panda
* Hemicyon
* Hemicyonidae ("dog-bear")
* Kolponomos
* Kolponomos newportensis
* MacFarlane's Bear (disputed)
* Parictis

Specific bears

* An old un-named bear, injured and tied up in Mississippi as part of a canned hunt for President Theodore Roosevelt. Teddy Roosevelt refused to shoot the bear, and this event was popularized by cartoonist Clifford Berryman, resulting in the creation of the 'Teddy' Bear.
* Bart the Bear
* Binky, a polar bear in an Alaskan zoo who attacked tourists who climbed into his cage in two separate incidents.
* Bruno (Bear JJ1), the first bear to appear in Germany after their disappearance from German soil over 170 years ago.
* Brody the Bear
* Flocke, a captive born and hand-raised polar bear at the Nuremberg Zoo
* Golden Bear (disputed)
* Hercules
* Hotfoot who became the original incarnation of the 1944 Smokey Bear advertising poster created by the Advertising Council's Rudolph Wendelin, and was discovered in the 1950 Capitan Gap forest fire.
* Inuka
* Knut, a captive born polar bear at the Berlin Zoo; the decision by zookeepers to hand raise him after he was abandoned by his mother caused controversy in early 2007.
* Stanko, mascot of Serbia's 44th regiment in World War II.
* Tarik
* Wilbaer, a captive born polar bear at the Wilhelma Zoo (his name is a combination of "Wil", for the zoo, and "baer", which is the German word for "bear").
* Winnipeg bear
* Wojtek

ee also

* List of non-fictional bears
* List of fictional bears