Gobi Bear

When mentioning Brown bears or Grizzly bears, they are the same animal living in different areas. Coastal bears tend to be larger because of a diet high in salmon.

A relatively small bear with brown fur and often having lighter patches on the neck or chest. During the winter months grey patches may appear within the pelage. Length is documented as between 147 and 167 cm, weight between around 50 and 120 kg. Unusually among brown bears the claws are blunt.

Gobi bears are the only bears that have evolved and adapted to living in such extreme, hot desert climates because of their bodies and appearances. Bears have that kind of mechanical advantage on all their skeletal muscles. The sheer size of bears' muscles is also a major factor in their strength. Polar bears have a massive rump and big, thick hind legs. Heavy muscles are packed onto these bears. The Gobi bear can withstand extreme temperature changes (+40°C to -30°C). This bear can travel great distances between scarce water sources. This bear has dietary flexibility; it survives primarily on plants, including roots, berries, and wild rhubarb.

Brown bear subspecies are strong swimmers, although Gobi bears seldom meet deep enough water to swim. They are biologically capable of swimming; however, this is rarely observed.

The hard conditions and scarcity of food in the Gobi Desert have greatly adapted Gobi bears. The main foods that Gobi bears consume are the rhizomes of plants that are supported by desert springs, such as Ephedra, wild onion (Allium spp.), berries such as nitre bush (Nitraria spp.), and grass shoots like Phragmites. Small amounts of animal matter are also ingested; these are primarily rodents and are estimated to make up 1% of the total intake. It is commonly known that brown bear subspecies go through a phase in late summer and early autumn when they consume a lot of food (hyperfagia) to store fat for hibernation and to produce young when in winter dens. Gobi bears mainly eat roots, berries, and other plants, sometimes rodents; there is no evidence that they prey on large mammals.

The primary competition for Gobi bears was minimal, with occasional overlap with wolves, camels, gazelles, horses, leopards, humans, and probably death worms.

Reproduction

• Breeding season: May–July.

• Delayed implantation: Like most brown bears.

• Cubs: Usually 1–2 cubs born in the winter den.

• Very low reproductive rate: Because food is scarce and females need many years to build adequate body reserves.

The bears are very territorial and frequent small oases within said territory. The slightest change or scare to their ecosystem and to the oasis that they frequent can cause serious repercussions.

The Gobi bear was shy and solitary, wild, and non-aggressive until it felt threatened. They are not accustomed to humans and tend to avoid them.

Threats

• Severe habitat scarcity (water and food)

• Climate change drying oases

• Very small population → inbreeding

• Competition with livestock for water sources

• Human encroachment (mining, vehicles)

Conservation Status

• IUCN Red List: Critically Endangered (CR)

Conservation efforts

• Mongolian government protection

• Strict anti-poaching laws

• Supplemental feeding stations at oases

• Genetic and population monitoring

• International support (UNDP, wildlife NGOs)

The only bear species adapted to the desert biome was found in the Gobi Desert of Mongolia.

• Movement Pattern: Nomadic

• Movement Pattern: Solo

• Population Trend: Increasing

• Population: 

  • Earth: 32

  • Reinachos: ???

  • Thatrollwa: ???

  • Sawintir: ???

• Locomotion: Amphibious

• Habitat: Deserts and Xeric Shrublands; Badlands.

• Earth: (we shared same subspecies as Ursus arctos spp.)

  • Extant (Resident): Mongolia

  • Possibly Extinct: China (Inner Mongolia)

• Berbania: ???

• Reinachos: ???

• Delphia: ???

Brown bears can be tamed by feeding their babies honey and fish, much like bears do today.

Coming soon

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• See also: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1cY-1Mpe3KMRzxyJg5FmdE40St6n5-b2U

• Abkhaz: Амшә Гоби (Amshe gobi)

• Acehnese: Beruang Gobi

• Afar: Gobi baddi lubak

• Afrikaans: Gobi beer, Woestynbeer

• Amharic: ጎቢ ድብ

• Arabic: دب جوبي (daeb jubi)

• Armenian: Գոբի արջ (Gobi arj)

• Arrernte: Bera Kupi

  • Reinachan Arrernte: Thupu Kupi (ثوپي كوپي)

• Assamese: গোবি ভালুক (gobi bhaluk)

• Avar: ГӀоби берзул

• Awadhi: गोबी भालू (gobee bhaaloo)

• Aymara: Gobi oso

• Breton: Arzh Gobi

• Cheyenne: Gobináhkohe

• Western Elvish: Ghubër

• Eastern Elvish: Ghuver

• Japanese: ゴビ熊 (Gobi kuma)

• Maori: Pea Kobi (熊 コビ)

  • Berbanian Maori: Peara Kobi (熊 コビ)

  • Reinachan Maori: Kuma Kobi (クマ コビ)

• Mongolian: Мазаалай/ᠮᠠᠽᠠᠠᠯᠠᠢ (Mazaalai)

• Dine Bizaad: Shashtsoh Gobí

  • Reinachan Dine Bizaad: Shashtsoh Gobi (شهشظوه عوبي)

• Davvisámegiella: Gobi beana

• Terran Saurfolk: Ukran Gobi

• Sawintiran Saurfolk: Hukrona Gobi

• Shqip: Ariu Gobi

  • Reinachan Shqip: آريو عبي (Ariu Gobi)

• Tagalog: Oso sa Ilang ng Gobi (ᜂᜐᜓ ᜐ ᜁᜎᜅ᜔ ᜅ ᜄᜓᜊᜒ)

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• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gobi_bear

• https://species.wikimedia.org/wiki/Ursus_arctos_gobiensis

• https://www.gobibearproject.org/

• https://animalia.bio/gobi-bear

• https://bigmongoliatravel.com/the-gobi-bear/

• http://www.bearconservation.org.uk/gobi-brown-bear/