Brittanica - Bears Crossword

(family Ursidae), any of eight species of large short-tailed carnivore s found in the Americas, Europe, and Asia.
also called bruang, honey bear, or Malayan sun bear, smallest member of the family Ursidae, found in Southeast Asian forests.
shaggy-haired bear (family Ursidae) native to Europe, Asia, and northwestern North America. More than 80 forms of the brown bear have been described; they are treated as several subspecies of Ursus arctos.
(Ursus arctos middendorffi), variety of grizzly bear found on Kodiak Island, off the coast of Alaska. It is the largest of living land carnivores.
(Ursus maritimus), also called white bear, sea bear, or ice bear, great white northern bear (family Ursidae) found throughout the Arctic region.
(Ursus americanus), also called American bear, the most common bear (family Ursidae), found in the forests of North America, including parts of Mexico
(Tremarctos ornatus), also called Andean bear, bear, the only South American species of the family Ursidae. It inhabits mountainous regions (particularly of the Andes).
(Ailuropoda melanoleuca), also called panda bear, bearlike mammal inhabiting bamboo forests in the mountains of central China.
a state of greatly reduced metabolic activity and lowered body temperature adopted by certain mammals as an adaptation to adverse winter conditions.
any member of the mammalian order Carnivora (literally, “flesh devourers” in Latin), comprising more than 270 species.