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
• Another woman was prosecuted for keeping a sun bear in her house in Singapore in 1993.
  — Heather Chen, CNN, 5 Aug. 2023
• 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

Last Updated: 8 Dec 2024