How to Use sun bear in a Sentence

sun bear

noun
  • In 2019, a live sun bear was discovered in an apartment in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
    Heather Chen, CNN, 5 Aug. 2023
  • Asiatic black bears, also known as moon bears, sun bears, and brown bears are some of the most common species farmed for bile.
    National Geographic, 12 June 2019
  • The southern zoo has two resident sun bears – Xander and Sabah.
    Antonia Debianchi, Peoplemag, 4 Aug. 2023
  • As fruit-eaters, sun bears disperse seeds, helping plants to take root in new locations.
    Carlyn Kranking, Smithsonian Magazine, 3 Aug. 2023
  • Even the sun bear and sloth bear, both sometimes called honey bears, feed mostly not on the sweet stuff but on insects — including bees — and fruit.
    Gemma Tarlach, Discover Magazine, 10 Nov. 2017
  • Southeast Asia, the home of the sun bear, is losing ten million acres of primary forest cover a year.
    Jill Lepore, The New Yorker, 17 July 2023
  • For example, the sun bear, a bear known for its small, cub-like size, and impressively long claws, gets by with little fur.
    Carina Woudenberg, Discover Magazine, 25 Oct. 2022
  • As the sun bore down, about 75 people stood in a semicircle listening to tributes.
    Susan Hogan, Washington Post, 14 May 2018
  • The latter hashtag seemingly nods to some other zoo bears who have made headlines this summer — the sun bears of Hangzhou Zoo.
    Bailey Richards, Peoplemag, 13 Aug. 2023
  • However, the sun bears at Hangzhou Zoo in China are real and not humans in costume, the zoo said Monday in a statement.
    Zach Mentz, cleveland, 31 July 2023
  • For instance, a zoo in Taiwan was reportedly caught dying a sun bear black and white and marketing it as a panda in the late 1980s.
    Ej Dickson, Rolling Stone, 22 June 2022
  • According to National Geographic, sun bears, one of the smallest members of the bear family, are found in the forests of Southeast Asia.
    David Chiu, Peoplemag, 13 Aug. 2023
  • The bears, mainly Asiatic black bears and sun bears native the region, are often kept in wretched conditions and suffer a wide range of health problems.
    Jason Daley, Smithsonian, 21 July 2017
  • Come along with me and meet some of Borneo's exotic wildlife in the gallery above—from inquisitive baby orangutans and sleepy sun bears to the extremely rare Sumatran rhino.
    National Geographic, 8 Apr. 2019
  • According to National Geographic, sun bears are named for the golden patches of fur on their chests, which may resemble a rising sun.
    Natalie Neysa Alund, USA TODAY, 1 Aug. 2023
  • The controversy stemmed from social media videos which recently circulated and showed one of Hangzhou Zoo’s sun bears standing on its back legs and appearing to be a human in costume.
    Zach Mentz, cleveland, 31 July 2023
  • The zoo, located in Eastern China, publically denied claims that its sun bears are actually humans dressed in bear costumes last month.
    Bailey Richards, Peoplemag, 13 Aug. 2023
  • Despite a searing noontime sun bearing down on the stone pavement between city council chambers and San Fernando Cathedral, about 100 people gathered Monday for prayer.
    Elaine Ayala, ExpressNews.com, 13 Aug. 2019
  • Charismatic animals there include orangutans, elephants and sun bears.
    Michael Stone, Discover Magazine, 9 May 2018
  • China’s latest internet sensation, Angela, has been taken for many things: A black bear, a large dog and, most recently, a person in a bear costume, after a video of the sun bear standing upright and interacting with visitors went viral.
    Lyric Li, Washington Post, 1 Aug. 2023

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