While visiting the San Diego Zoo this week I was drawn to a crowd that had gathered in front of the Andean bear exhibit.

The spectacled bear is native to Andean countries like Peru, Ecuador, northern Argentina, Bolivia and Venezuela and lives in scrublands, grasslands, and forests. Experts believe there are anywhere ...

The adult stands about 25 inches at the shoulder and varies from 4 to 6 feet in length, with a 3-inch) tail ...

Two 22-year-old men have been charged for allegedly stealing a Paddington Bear statue in Newbury, England on Sunday morning.

sun bear, and spectacled bear. The American black bear is the smallest of our three bears in North America, but they are the most widely distributed. They are found in good numbers from Florida up ...

High in the Peruvian Andes lives a very special bear. One of the rarest large carnivores on the planet, the spectacled bear is the 'real' Paddington. Over the course of a few months the curious ...

Show more From the mighty grizzly bear to the endearing real life Paddington, the spectacled bear, and Rudyard Kipling’s Jungle Book's Baloo, the sloth bear, this remarkable animal family has ...

Created by Bond in 1958, Paddington is a spectacled bear from Peru who wears an old red bush hat and blue duffel coat, carries a battered brown leather suitcase and loves marmalade sandwiches.