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The Sun Bear by Charlotte Alstrom:There are so few Sun bears left nobody really knows much about them. But it is the world's smallest bear weighing only 100 pounds. New born cubs weigh about 7 ounces. They are blind and hairless. A few weeks later they are strong enough to run and play. The cubs stay with their mother until they are almost fully grown. In Borneo the bears have been reported up to 49 thousand feet on a mountain, and in Sabah, Sarawak border region 7,500 feet on Mount Kinabus. It takes a continuous block of forest of about 24,700 acres for a Sun bear to live in a place. In parts of Asia Sun bears have a reputation of being as dangerous as an enraged elephant. Borneo seems to be the most likely place to find a Sun bear. A Sun bear can be a captive pet in Sabah, Borneo. In 1960 a lot of Sun bears were caught and put in zoos in Thailand. In Bagalore, India, Sun bears are considered extinct. The populations of Sun bears are decreasing because hunters are over hunting them. The Sun bear is on the red list of endangered species. They exist only in the forests of the Malay Peninsula, Java, Sumatra, Burma, and Thailand. In Bagalore, India, Sun bears are considered extinct. By Charlotte Alstrom
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