Basset Hound

 

The Life of Animals | Basset Hound | Bassets are large, short, tight and long, curved saber tail high above their long back. Everett Millais, the founder of the modern Basset Hound, is quoted as saying: "Oh, he is about 4 feet long and 12 centimeters high." with respect to the French Basset. An adult dog weighs 20-35 kg (44 and 77 pounds). The current FCI standard describes the characteristic skin of the Basset, which his ancestor, the Bloodhound appears as a "loose". The looseness of the skin leads to characteristics of the Basset wrinkles. The Basset The short legs are a form of dwarfism (see health). The Basset Hound is a friendly dog to people and other pets, and is an ideal companion for children.

Because bassets are scent hounds, they were always in line like walking on to. Although Bassets sleep a lot, and the walks are still needed. Bassets are known as a vocal breed. Basset Hounds are very loyal and very attached to their owners. Bassets are very sociable and are best located as a family dog with a big fenced backyard. Basset Hounds have large ears followers (known as "leather"), whereby the air can not circulate in them, like other breeds with erect ears or more open. This can lead to infections and mites, their ears if not clean and dry. Young puppies biting journey through their long ears and their ears may unintentionally as they dangle in the pantry.

Basset Hounds and Dachshunds Bulldogs are classified as one of the achondroplastic breeds. Basset hound puppy or very old dogs can not jump from a height due to how low they hit the ground. Many older Bassets were slain as a result of such injuries. in addition to ear, dachshunds are prone to eye problems. Bassets are bred for stamina. Obesity leads to paralysis of the Bassets. The only recent mortality and morbidity surveys of Basset Hounds live in the UK, longevity research in 1999 with a small sample of 10 deceased dogs and a 2004 UK Kennel Club health survey with a larger sample of 142 dogs and 226 dead dogs.  The Basset Hound was bred to hunt. There are a number of groups promoting hunting Bassets.

There are a variety of pure basset hound developed for hunting by Colonel Morrison, who were the Masters of Basset Hounds Association admitted in 1959 on an annex to the flock. This race differs in its longer and right in the leg and with shorter ears Basset Hounds are featured in the popular culture often. On February 27, 1928 Time magazine featured a Basset Hound on the front page. The accompanying story was about the 52th annual Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show at Madison Square Garden as observed by the Basset Hound puppy. Many cartoon dog on the basset horn, such as Tex Avery Droopy, appear with different Bassets in animated Disney films are based. Syndicated It is a basset hound named Fred character in Smokey and the Bandit film series.

In the early days of television, Elvis Presley sang famous "Hound Dog" to a Basset Hound named Sherlock The Steve Allen Show July 1, 1956. Lassie had a friend named Pokey Basset early in the TV series Lassie. Other famous TV Bassets are summarized Cleo The People's Choice, Columbo dog, dog, and the sheriff Flash in the Dukes of Hazzard. Basset Hounds are often used as an advertising logo. The logo for Hush Puppies brand shoes prominently features a Basset Hound whose real name is Jason. A Basset Hound also serves as a supplement to the lonely Maytag Man in Maytag appliance advertisements. Tidewater Petroleum advertised its "Flying A" gasoline with a Basset Hound named Axelrod.

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Chow Chow

 

The Life of Animals | Chow Chow | Chow Chow dog has a sturdy built, square profile with broad skull and small ears, triangular, top with rounded tips. Chow Chow eyes "are usually deep set and almond. Gene Blue-black/purple language seems to be dominant, as almost all mixed breed dogs who come from a Chow retain the tongue color. This does not mean, however, that every mixed breed dog with spots of purple on the tongue is descended from Chow Chow as purple spots on the tongue can be found on many breeds The most commonly kept as pets, Chow Chow tend to show a foreign judgment can become fiercely protective of their owners and properties.

Chow Chows are not overly active, meaning they can be housed in an apartment. However, Chow Chow who live in apartments will need to exercise every day to avoid boredom and anxiety. Chow Chow may suffer from entropion, glaucoma, cataract, children, lymphoma, hip dysplasia, canine diabetes and stomach cancer pemphigus. Chow Chow is a breed of high risk of autoimmune disease and are at high risk for melanoma of the skin. Because of the thick Chow, fleas can become a problem.

A Chinese bas-relief from 150 BC shows a hunting dog and a dog very friendly with children similar in appearance to the Chow Chow. Later Chow Chows were bred to work as a general purpose hunting dogs, sheep and home protection. Chow Chow black tongue is also raised for human consumption. President Calvin Coolidge and his wife owned a black Chow named Timmy. Chow Chow was popular in the years 1930 and 1980.

Director Teja has a Chow Chow named "action". Vanna GOODNESS cream Chow called Sky in a line of her breed of choice, Chow has called Seraph blue, red and a chow chow named Beowulf, who has been immortalized as a fictional dog Book your flight. Martha Stewart has had a chow chow named Genghis Khan, died in a fire shelter. Peri Gilpin had a chow chow named Charlie. Janet Jackson has had a Chow Chow named Buckwheat. Drew Barrymore, Selena Gomez and Matthew McConaughey had Chow Chow-Labrador mix. Manchester United winger Nani is also an owner of a Chow Chow named Panda

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White Rhino

 

The Life of Animals | White Rhino | The white rhino is the largest of five rhino species and mammals of the world's largest land after the three species of elephants. She has a huge body and large head, short neck and broad chest. The male with an average of 2300 kg (5100 lb) heavier than females with an average of 1700 kg (3,700 lbs). The greatest recorded white rhino was approximately 4500 kg (9900 pounds). White rhinos have a distinctive wide mouth and straight, which is used for grazing. The white rhino has the broadest set of nostrils of land animals. White rhinos are found in grassland and savanna habitat. Herbivore herbivores that eat grass, prefer the smaller grains, the white rhino is one of the largest pure herbivores.

White Rhinos, like all species of rhino, love it, wallowing in mud holes law. White rhinos make sounds to call a contact panting, grunting and gasping screams during courtship, hardship, and are deep growls and screams, when threatened. Monitors threats include (mostly male) cleared the horn back on the ground and a head down posture with ears, accompanied by growling and shouting threats when they attacked. The white rhino is fast and agile and can be 50 km / h (31 mph) run. White rhinos live in accidents or up to 14 herds of animals (usually mostly female).

More adult bulls are solitary. Dominant bulls mark their territory with urine and feces. You can tell these cells to pass 20-30 rhinos that is their territory. The territorial males scrape mark each 30 m (98 ft) or to limit their territory. Subordinate males do not mark territory. Female territory is overlapped extensively and do not defend it. Females reach sexual maturity at 6-7 years, while males reach sexual maturity between 10-12 years. The male chases and or blocks the path of the female, while screaming or moaning loudly, if the female tries to leave its territory. The birth interval for the white rhino is 2-3 years. Before birth, the mother will haunt her current calf. White Rhinos can live up to 40-50 years of age.

The northern subspecies is now found only in Congo, while the southern subspecies or majority of white rhinos live in South Africa. About 98.5% of white rhinos come in only five countries (South Africa, Namibia, Zimbabwe, Kenya and Uganda). By the end of 2007 the southern white rhino savage had risen to about 17,480 animals (IUCN 2008). As the black rhino, white rhino under threat from habitat loss and poaching, most recently by Janjaweed. The northern white rhino (cottoni simum) before arriving in parts of northwestern Uganda, southern Chad, south-western Sudan, the eastern part of the Central African Republic and in the northeastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). The only confirmed population today occurs in northeastern Democratic Republic of Congo.

Between 2003 and 2006, increased poaching and reduced the wild population of only 5 to 10 animals. From 2011, the total number of northern white rhinos on the planet is reported five males and two females to be. More white rhinos in zoos are southern white rhinos in 2001, it was estimated that more than 777 white rhinos in captivity around the world. The San Diego Wild Animal Park, San Diego, California, before three northern white rhinos, which were all caught in the wild. Only one female named Nola, and a male named Angalifu after the second female, Nadi remain, died in May 2007 believed that up to an advanced age. 

Angalifu is one of the last known male Northern White Rhino in existence. The collaboration already underway between the San Diego Wild Animal Park and Zoo Dvur Kralove in Dvur Kralove nad Labem, Czech Republic, for the seeds Angalifu female rhinos in captivity in the Czech Republic, in a last attempt to save this subspecies. So far, attempts at insemination northern white rhinos are considered failed and other methods considered.

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Adelie Penguins

The Life of Animals | Adelie Penguins | There are 38 colonies of Adelie penguins, and more than 5 million Adélie in the Ross Sea region. Ross Island supports a colony of about half a million Adelie penguins. Adelie penguins breed from October to February, on the coast around the Antarctic continent. Adelie nests built of rough stones. Adelie penguins live in groups called colonies. These penguins are medium in size and weight of 46-75 cm (18-30 inches) long and 3.6 to 6 kg (7.9 to 13 pounds). The tail is a "little more than penguins queues. I am a bit "lower than other penguin species. His appearance is closer to the stereotypical image of penguins, like most black with a white belly. Adelie penguins can swim up to 45 mph (72 km / h) Adelie penguins are leopard seals prey, Skua and whales occasionally fatal.

Like all penguins, the Adelie highly social, feeding and nesting of groups. They are also very aggressive to other penguins who steal stones from their nest. Cherry-Garrard, said: "They are extraordinarily like children, of these people around the world, Antarctica, either as children or old men, full of self-importance. E 'was observed as the Penguin intrigue could put them in danger, Scott found a particularly troublesome The big problem with dog teams is due to the reckless behavior of penguins. These groups were jumping constantly in our iceberg. Since landing on your feet the whole attitude expressed devouring curiosity and a head of pork contempt for his own safety.

to the South Pole has been more receptive to this element of intrigue to Adelia Cherry-Garrard Meares and Dimitri-exercised dogs dog teams on the counter over, when we were stopped for a period of time. For stubborn personality characteristics Cherry-Garrard kept the bird in high esteemThe restriction of competition from these predators led to a surplus of krill, the penguins now used as a source of penguins fooddélie easier to reach their breeding grounds in October or November, in late winter and early spring. Nests consist of stones stacked.

In December, the warmest month in Antarctica (about -2 ° C or 28 ° F), parents take turns incubating the eggs, you'll eat and the other stays to warm the egg. The parent who is incubating does not eat. In March, young adults and their return to the sea. The Adelie penguin living on sea ice, but needs the ice-free land to breed. With the reduction of sea ice and food shortages, the population of Adelie penguins fell 65% in the last 25 years. Adelie penguins youth who have no experience in social interaction can respond to fake stimuli as penguins gather to breed.  Due to the emergence of birds and relatively similar to human behavior, human observers have interpreted this behavior as sexual deviation anthropomorphic.

The brochure, declined for publication in the official reports of the Scott expedition, said the frequency of sexual activity, an auto-erotic behavior, and the apparently anomalous behavior of men and women, young couples, including necrophilia, sexual coercion, sexual abuse and physical chicks and homosexual behavior, "says an analysis by William Russell and his colleagues Douglas Sladen and David Ainley. Levick observe Adelie penguins at Cape Adare, the site of the largest colony of Adelie penguins in the world. The discovery significantly clarifies the behavior of the species that some researchers believe it is an indicator of climate change Adelie penguins live in the area of the Ross Sea, Antarctica and the migration of an average of about 13,000 kilometers (8,100 miles) during the year that follows the sun from their breeding colonies of winter feeding areas and vice versa versa. Longer trips were recorded at 17,600 km (10,900 miles)

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Collie

 

The Life of Animals | Collie | Collies are typically medium-sized dog of about 10 to 25 kg (22 to 55 lb), with a slightly pointed snout and ears very erect or partially built up, a foxy impression. Types differ in color, used with the primary colors to black, black and brown, red, red and brown or black. The most common pattern in many types are black and white or tricolor (black and brown and white). Collies vary from Collie trainability "average" rough and smooth, maybe trainable of all breeds, the Border Collie. The Border Collie is the breed most need a job, while the rough collies, smooth and bearded lifestyleA fit better in the average working family member of a breed like the border collie is a dog full of energy and extremely agile with great stamina.

Dogs of collie type or derivation occupy four of the first sixteen degrees in Stanley Coren's The Intelligence of Dogs, the first border collie. These properties are usually strains of work suitable for agility, in addition to pastoral work, which is good for active sports such as sheepdog trials, flyball, disc dog and agility dog suitable. Collies compete in herding events. Collies herd instinct, which are essential can be trained to compete in herding trials. Some types of Collie (eg gross Collies, Smooth Collies, Shetland Sheepdogs and some strains of Border Collies and other breeds) have been shown for many generations as pets and bred for the sport of conformation, not as a shepherd dog.

The temperament of this breed is in literature, movies, TV shows and popular was described. Some breeds Collie (Rough and Smooth Collies in particular the collie) are affected by a genetic defect, a mutation in the MDR1 gene. Affected dogs show a cortisol concentration of lower than normal. The Association of the German Kennel Club (for the German Kennel Club) encourages breeding associations to test all cattle and prevent the breeding of affected dogs. Collies may have a genetic disease, dogs cyclic neutropenia, or gray collie syndrome.

Affected puppies rarely live more than 6 months old. Shepherd dogs of Collie-type have long been popular in Great Britain, and these can be regarded as a , from which a number of other local varieties, species and breeds have been formally derived, both in Britain and elsewhere. 

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Lion Fish

 

The Life of Animals | Lion Fish | Pterois range in size from 6.2 to 42.4 cm, with a typical adult measuring 38 cm and weighing an average of 480 g. Youth Lionfish have a tentacle above single sockets of his eyes, ranging in phenotype among species. According to a study of the decomposition of more than 1,400 lionfish stomachs from Bahamas to the waters of North Carolina involved, Pterois prey mainly on small fish, invertebrates and shellfish in large quantities, with a number of copies of the stomach of more than six different prey types. The amount of Lionfish prey in stomachs during the day suggest that the most active feeding lionfish 7:00 to 23:00, with reduced power during the afternoon.

The lionfish, then spread their large pectoral fins and swallows its prey in a move singe researchers also noted that the jets blowing lionfish, while the prey approaching, apparently next to disorient the subject case of larger lionfish engaged in cannibalism in smaller individuals, identified adult lionfish have few natural enemies. Morays (family Muraenidae) Bluespotted horn fish (Fistularia commersonii) and large groupers, such as tiger grouper (Mycteroperca tigris) and Nassau grouper (Epinephelus striatus) were observed preying on lionfish. It remains unknown, but the question of how often these predators prey on lionfish. Sharks are also believed trapped in lionfish, without damaging their spines.

Park officials Marine Park Roatan in Honduras attempted to train sharks to feed on Lionfish in 2011 in an attempt to weed populations in the Caribbean, the arrival. Predators of larvae and juvenile lionfish remains unknown, but may be the main factor limiting the lionfish population in its own range. Lionfish parasites are rarely seen and is believed to have been frequent. They include isopods and leeches Lionfish are known for their venomous spines, a feature that is unusual among marine fish on the reefs of the east coast. The lionfish is a predator of the Indo-Pacific. The aggressive prey, small fish and invertebrates. Lionfish usually have a hostile attitude and are territorial to other reef fish.

 Two of the nine species of Pterois, the red lionfish (P. volitans) and the common lionfish (P. miles) have established themselves as a major invasive species on the east coast of the United States and the Caribbean. Approximately 93% of the population is invasive P. volitans. The red lionfish is found on the east coast of the United States and the Caribbean Sea, and was likely first introduced off the Florida coast in the early and mid 1990. It is also believed that lionfish were purposely discarded by aquarists displeased. The first documented capture of Lionfish in the Atlantic occurred in Dania Beach, Florida. In 2001, NOAA documented sightings of lionfish off the coast of Florida, Georgia, South Carolina, North Carolina and Bermuda and the Bahamas were discovered in 2004.

Pterois volitans and Pterois miles are tropical and subtropical regions of southern Japan and South Korea to the east coast of Australia, Indonesia, Micronesia, Polynesia and the South Pacific. Pterois are known to devour many other aquarium fish. Pterois are unusual in that they are among the few species that successfully established populations in open marine systems. Extreme temperatures have limited geographic distribution of aquatic species, indicating that the temperature tolerance plays a role in the reproductive survival lionfish, range and distribution.

Pterois extended along the entire east coast of the United States occupied and suitable thermal zones within ten years, although the timing of observations points to the east coast of Florida, as the original source of the invasion of the western Atlantic, the relationship of the United States East Coast and Bahamas lionfish invasion is uncertain

The population of the invasive lionfish is growing very rapidly, and efforts are underway in several areas of control. However, the lionfish completely eradicate their new habitat seems unlikely. A study in 2010 with the population models used data collected on the known life history of the lionfish inhabit the coral reefs of the Caribbean to determine the best means to eradicate. The study showed that the most effective way to even maintain current lion population at least 27% of adults should be killed invasive monthly. In November 2010, the Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary began issuing licenses for divers to kill lionfish in the sanctuary.

Serious and repeated removal of water penetrating the lionfish will need to gain control of exponentially growing populations of conservation in many eastern U.S. are organizing hunts for Pterois. Community organizations formed around the country hoping to stop the growing population lionfish. Based on average kills per dive, a diver can easily kill Lionfish 3000-4000 per year (3 dives per day, six days a week, averaging 4 + kills per dive). Many people are wary of the idea of eating a poisonous fish, fish fillets properly but is perfectly healthy to eat. Encourage the consumption of lionfish not only help maintain a reasonable population density, but also provide an alternative source for other fish stocks overexploited, like grouper and snapper.

NOAA calls the lionfish a delicious flavor, delicate fish "texture for grouper. Many recipes for lionfish can be found in cookbooks from the coast, including some fried lionfish, lionfish ceviche, grilled jerky lionfish and lionfish. NOAA is also planning to continue his "Fish as Food Lion" campaign, as human hunting, fish is the only known form of the current control. NOAA also encourages people to report lionfish sightings to help spread a better record keeping Lionfish have successfully completed the coastal waters of the Atlantic, pioneered in less than ten years and are a major threat to ecological systems reefs in these areas. An environmental impact caused by Pterois could their impact on population numbers of prey by directly affecting the relations of the food chain. Studies show that the lionfish's Atlantic reef diversity may decrease to 80%. In July 2011 Lionfish were first reported in Garden Banks National Marine Sanctuary off the coast of Louisiana Flower.

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King of Herrings

 

The Life of Animals | King of Herrings | herrings or giant oarfish, a oarfish Regalecidae family, the king of the world's longest bony minagide. Most specimens are found dead or dying in the water most of the observations, were in the North Atlantic. Great Book of Animals, whose name comes from his appendages crownlike herring fishermen to the fish was thought to be the guidelines, schools would have to be seen. Long dorsal fin, red,, shell-less ribbon, and silver is.

Regalecus Glesne (Glesne) a certain word in western Norway, where the first part of the mantle of Agriculture oarfish view Ascanius Dane Glesnæs, or Glesvær is derived from a small village in 1765 and 1769. King of the world's longest bony minagide herrings. December 10, 2010, the States of Sinaloa in Mexico, the southern coast of a live specimen was found to be four meters. Taiwanese fishermen in the water, light, and felt the earthquake in Japan. Fish Earthquake: he gave a nickname.

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Osprey

 

The Life of Animals | Osprey | The Osprey was one of the many types of Carl Linnaeus in his Century 18, Systema Naturae described and shown as Falco Haliaeetus. The genus, Pandion is the only member of the family Pandionidae, and contains the only species Osprey (P. haliaetus). The Pandion genus was described by the French zoologist Marie Jules César Savigny in 1809, and is taken from a greek mythical king Pandion. The Osprey differs in several respects from other raptors. To date, there have been two extinct species known from fossils. Pandion was homalopteron by Stuart L. Warter fossils found in 1976 appointed by the Middle Miocene, Barstovian age, in the marine deposits in the southern U.S. state of California.

Been recovered, a number of fossil claw from the sediments of the Pliocene and Pleistocene in Florida and South Carolina, USA. The earliest fossils recognized Pandionidae family were from the Oligocene Jebel Qatrani training, were recovered from the Fayum, Egypt. The subspecies are close enough in size to the nominate subspecies average 1.53 kg (3.4 lbs), carolinensis average pH of 1.7 kg (3.7 lb) and PH cristatus average of 1.25 kg (2 , £ 8). The upperparts are a deep, glossy brown, while the chest is white, sometimes streaked with brown, and underparts are pure white. The beak is black with a blue cere, and feet are white with blacks claws. A short tail and long, narrow wings with four long finger-like feathers, and a shorter fifth, give him a very special

The sexes look quite similar, but the adult male is distinguished from the female by its slimmer body and narrower wings. It is easy to determine the sex in a breeding pair, but harder with individual birds. The Osprey can be juvenile feathers of upperparts fringed buff, a fan of clay on the bottom strips are identified and feathers on the head. In flight, Ospreys have arched wings and drooping "hands", giving a seagull like appearance. The call is a series of whistling, as Cheep, Cheep or yewk described yewk. In North America you play from Alaska and Newfoundland south to the Gulf Coast and Florida, wintering further south, from the southern United States to Argentina.

There is a distance of 1000 km, in accordance with the coast of the Nullarbor Plain, between its breeding site in South Australia and western breeding area closest to the West in Western Australia. The Osprey breeds by freshwater lakes and coastal waters often brackish. The nest is a large pile of sticks, driftwood and seaweed in the forks of trees, rocks, light poles, platforms or artificial islands built off-shore Generally, Ospreys reach sexual maturity and reproduction begins around the age of three or four years, although some regions with high Osprey densities, such as Chesapeake Bay in the United States, can not start breeding as young as five to seven years, and may be a lack of adequate facilities to be great. If there are no nesting sites available, young Ospreys May forced to delay breeding. To alleviate this problem, the costs are sometimes built to provide more suitable sites for nesting.

The breeding season varies with latitude, spring (September-October) in southern Australia, from April to July in northern Australia in winter (June-August) in southern Queensland. The newly hatched chicks weigh only 50-60 grams (2 ounces), but Fledge within 8-10 weeks. A study on Kangaroo Iceland, South Australia had an average time between hatching and fledging of 69 days. The same study found an average of 0.66 young fledged per year and the occupied territories, and 0.92 years for young fledged per nest on. Approximately 22% of young survivors remained on the island, or back at the end of the term, to connect the breeding population.

 

The oldest European wild fish eagle on record lived to be over 30 years. In North America Bubo owls and bald eagles (eagles and possibly of similar size) are the only major predators of both nests and sub adults. However, kleptoparasitism of bald eagles, where the higher the raptor steals Osprey capture more prevalent than predation. Endoparasitic trematode (Scaphanocephalus expansus and Neodiplostomum spp.) They took into wild Ospreys

The Osprey has a wide scope, covering 9,670,000 km2 (3.7 million square miles) in just Africa and America, and has a large global population estimated at 460,000 individuals. In the late 19 and early 20 century were the main threats to Osprey populations of egg collectors and hunting of adults along with other raptors, but Osprey populations declined drastically in many areas in the years 1950 and 1960, this seemed to be partly due to the toxic effects of insecticides such as DDT playback. The pesticide interfere with calcium metabolism of the bird, which resulted in a thin shell, easily broken or unfertilized eggs. Nesting sites in South Australia on the Eyre Peninsula and Kangaroo Iceland are not vulnerable to unmanaged coastal recreation and Urban Development to intervene. The Osprey is the capital of the province of birds, both Nova Scotia, Canada and Södermanland, Sweden

Spectacled Bear

 

  
The Life of Animals | Spectacled Bear | The spectacled bear is a species of medium size bear native in South America has black fur with a distinctive tan markings around the face and upper chest, although not all Andean bears have "spectacle" markings. Males can weigh 100-200 kg (220 - 440 pounds) and 35 women -82 kg (77-181 lbs). Spectacled bears are the only species of bear native to South America survived, and the only surviving member of the subfamily Tremarctinae.

 

Like other bears, mothers are protective of their young and attacked the poachers. Bears herbivores glasses are more than most other bears, generally about 5-7% of their diet is meat. The most common foods for these bears are cacti, palm nuts, bulbs, orchids, fruit fallen on the forest floor and palm leaves closed. Prey is usually very small, but these bears can front-grown deer, llamas and domestic cattle and horses.

Probably, some bears have become accustomed to eating animals, but bears are actually more likely to eat carrion and livestock farmers as some may accidentally take the spectacled bear killed. Because of fear of loss of inventory, the bears can be shot on sight The population bear glasses is at risk of a number of reasons. Bears are hunted by the locals because of a belief that eating animals (bears with glasses, even if they do not eat large quantities of meat). The gallbladder of spectacled bears are valued in traditional Chinese medicine and can fetch a higher price in international market.

As food sources of bears are disappearing, is based on food crops. For this reason, farmers see the bears, such as competition and hunt them. The law against hunting bears exist, but is rarely applied. In the documentary Paddington Bear: The Early Years, British actor Stephen Fry is a spectacled bear named Yogi, which was held in a small cage by Andean villagers (see also Paddington Bear).

Fry took an interest in bears to accompany the documentary, Stephen Fry and spectacled bears, and he also wrote and published their experiences to save the Spectacled Bear: A Peruvian daily. The BBC documentary "Spectacled Bears: Shadows of the Forest" Bear looks at some of the research was conducted in Peru and Ecuador, and that researchers are discovering.