--- title: Bears by kind: the eight bears of the world — a lesson of Mova's school · trees and pragmatics description: «Bears by kind: the eight bears of the world», a lesson of the biology course of Mova's primary school, sentence by sentence with dependency trees and pragmatics. It begins: There are only eight kinds of bear in the whole world: the brown bear, the American black bear, the polar bear, the Asiatic bl --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/319-bears-by-kind-the-eight-bears-of-the-world/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Biology](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/) / Bears by kind: the eight bears of the… # Bears by kind: the eight bears of the world Lesson 319 of the biology course of Mova's primary school: 15 sentences, each with its syntax tree and pragmatics. The lessons are written for Mova, and their agreed trees are part of Mova corpus 0.4 (CC BY-SA 4.0). How Mova does on its tests: [the lesson at school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/biology/319-bears-by-kind-the-eight-bears-of-the-world/). - [0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/319-bears-by-kind-the-eight-bears-of-the-world/0/) — There are only eight kinds of bear in the whole world: the brown bear, the American black bear, the polar bear, the Asiatic black bear, the sun bear, the sloth bear, the spectacled bear and the giant panda. - [1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/319-bears-by-kind-the-eight-bears-of-the-world/1/) — They share one body plan, big, strong and flat-footed with a short tail, but each has its own food and home, from sea ice to rainforest to bamboo mountains. - [3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/319-bears-by-kind-the-eight-bears-of-the-world/3/) — An American black bear can be brown or even white, the koala is not a bear at all, and the red panda is not a bear either. - [5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/319-bears-by-kind-the-eight-bears-of-the-world/5/) — The eight bears are the brown bear, American black bear, polar bear, Asiatic black bear, sun bear, sloth bear, spectacled bear and giant panda; the koala and the red panda are not bears. - [6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/319-bears-by-kind-the-eight-bears-of-the-world/6/) — Brown bears live in North America, Europe and Asia; grizzlies and Kodiak bears are brown bears, a big Kodiak can weigh over 600 kilograms, and a hump of muscle on the shoulders helps them dig. - [7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/319-bears-by-kind-the-eight-bears-of-the-world/7/) — In autumn brown bears gather at rivers to catch salmon swimming upstream, fattening up for winter. - [8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/319-bears-by-kind-the-eight-bears-of-the-world/8/) — The polar bear is the most meat-eating bear, hunting seals on the sea ice and waiting at breathing holes because seals must come up for air; as the sea ice melts, polar bears must swim further and go hungry longer. - [9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/319-bears-by-kind-the-eight-bears-of-the-world/9/) — American black bears can be black, brown, cinnamon or even white, like the spirit bear of Canada; it is the commonest bear in the world, with hundreds of thousands living wild, and it climbs trees easily. - [10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/319-bears-by-kind-the-eight-bears-of-the-world/10/) — A study reported that white spirit bears catch more salmon by day than black ones, perhaps because a pale shape is harder for fish to see against the bright sky. - [11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/319-bears-by-kind-the-eight-bears-of-the-world/11/) — The Asiatic black bear, or moon bear, has a cream-coloured crescent on its chest, lives in forests from Afghanistan to Japan, and bends branches into platforms in trees while feeding on nuts and fruit. - [13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/319-bears-by-kind-the-eight-bears-of-the-world/13/) — In 2023 a sun bear in a Chinese zoo stood up so like a person that people online said it was a man in a costume, and the zoo said it was a real bear. - [14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/319-bears-by-kind-the-eight-bears-of-the-world/14/) — The sloth bear of India and Sri Lanka has a gap where two upper front teeth are missing; it closes its nostrils, blows away dust and sucks termites up through the gap, and mothers carry their cubs on their backs. - [15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/319-bears-by-kind-the-eight-bears-of-the-world/15/) — The spectacled bear of the Andes, with pale rings around its eyes, is the only bear in South America; it climbs trees and eats mostly plants and fruit. - [16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/319-bears-by-kind-the-eight-bears-of-the-world/16/) — The giant panda is a true bear that eats almost only bamboo, but its gut is still a meat-eater's gut, so it digests little and must eat for many hours a day; since 2016 it has been listed as vulnerable instead of endangered. - [17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/319-bears-by-kind-the-eight-bears-of-the-world/17/) — Wild bears that are half grizzly and half polar bear, called pizzly or grolar bears, have been found in the Canadian Arctic, as grizzlies wander further north into a warming Arctic. - ← previous: [Deer: antlers that fall off and grow again; red deer, roe deer, moose, muntjac and water deer](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/318-deer-antlers-that-fall-off-and-grow-again-red-deer-roe-deer-moose-muntjac-and-water-deer/) - next →: [Bears up close: noses, claws, dens, the honey myth and bear safety](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/320-bears-up-close-noses-claws-dens-the-honey-myth-and-bear-safety/) - ↑ back to [Biology](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/)