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Description
Common Name: Shortfaced Bear
Common Name Synonyms: Short-faced Bear, Bulldog Bear, Running Bear, Giant Short-Faced Bear
Scientific Name: Arctodus simus
Size: 120-200cm tall in the shoulders, 180-300cm from snout to tail-base + 30-50cm long tail = 210-350cm from snout to tail.
Classification: Caniform
Habitat: Forests, Grasslands, Savannas, Deserts, Arctic
Diet: Omnivorous; diet consisted of honey, insects, grasses, carrion, antelopes, deer, horses, other short-faced bears, mammoth calves
Description: People think that the shortfaced bears are among Pleistocene's largest carnivores in time, among the polar bear, but this bear was not only a carnivore, but they are possibly vegetarians, like their small modern cousins, spectacled bears. They are native to North America in the Pleistocene 1.8 million to 11,000 years ago, as they can compete against lions, wolves, jaguars, saber-toothed cabbits, and even other shortfaced bears, but they even coexist with modern American black(Ursus americanus) and grizzly(Ursus horribilis) bears. Do you really think these bears are social in groups, called sleuths? Some of you don't think so, but some of you think they do, because short-faced bears uncommonly in sleuths, which a sleuth is consisted of half-dozen of boars, a dozens of sows, and their pups, all lead by breeding pair of alphas(Both alphas are boar and sow, like king and queen). Even a short-faced bear sleuth is lead by either a dominant boar, or a dominant female, if a sleuth had one leader. Boars can fight each other for their mates, and share dominance with female leaders for their sleuths, but sows can do the same thing as males, for their male mates, and share dominance with a lead boar. Not all these bears can lived in sleuths who cooperatively defend their pups from predators, but most of them are highly solitary, except for a mated pairs, and a bond between mother and her pups. Shortfaced bears had strong jaws, to crack up weaker bones of deer and horses, but their jaws had similar strength to brown bears(Ursus arctos). People liked that shortfaced bears are similar to spectacled bears by their color, but some make them similar to sloth bears by their color, but the addition to their whitish throat patches. Giving these bears their spots is too unusual for this fossil. Even that shortfaced bears, assumed to be the mother sows, can carry her pups on their backs, like sloth bears do, but in the sleuth, the teenage boars had been moved out of their birth sleuths, to make these young male boars solitary, or living in the bachelor sleuth.

Art (C) Shawn Brunner ,aka Patchi1995

Description
Common Name: Shortfaced Bear
Common Name Synonyms: Short-faced Bear, Bulldog Bear, Running Bear, Giant Short-Faced Bear
Scientific Name: Arctodus simus
Size: 120-200cm tall in the shoulders, 180-300cm from snout to tail-base + 30-50cm long tail = 210-350cm from snout to tail.
Classification: Caniform
Habitat: Forests, Grasslands, Savannas, Deserts, Arctic
Diet: Omnivorous; diet consisted of honey, insects, grasses, carrion, antelopes, deer, horses, other short-faced bears, mammoth calves
Description: People think that the shortfaced bears are among Pleistocene's largest carnivores in time, among the polar bear, but this bear was not only a carnivore, but they are possibly vegetarians, like their small modern cousins, spectacled bears. They are native to North America in the Pleistocene 1.8 million to 11,000 years ago, as they can compete against lions, wolves, jaguars, saber-toothed cabbits, and even other shortfaced bears, but they even coexist with modern American black(Ursus americanus) and grizzly(Ursus horribilis) bears. Do you really think these bears are social in groups, called sleuths? Some of you don't think so, but some of you think they do, because short-faced bears uncommonly in sleuths, which a sleuth is consisted of half-dozen of boars, a dozens of sows, and their pups, all lead by breeding pair of alphas(Both alphas are boar and sow, like king and queen). Even a short-faced bear sleuth is lead by either a dominant boar, or a dominant female, if a sleuth had one leader. Boars can fight each other for their mates, and share dominance with female leaders for their sleuths, but sows can do the same thing as males, for their male mates, and share dominance with a lead boar. Not all these bears can lived in sleuths who cooperatively defend their pups from predators, but most of them are highly solitary, except for a mated pairs, and a bond between mother and her pups. Shortfaced bears had strong jaws, to crack up weaker bones of deer and horses, but their jaws had similar strength to brown bears(Ursus arctos). People liked that shortfaced bears are similar to spectacled bears by their color, but some make them similar to sloth bears by their color, but the addition to their whitish throat patches. Giving these bears their spots is too unusual for this fossil. Even that shortfaced bears, assumed to be the mother sows, can carry her pups on their backs, like sloth bears do, but in the sleuth, the teenage boars had been moved out of their birth sleuths, to make these young male boars solitary, or living in the bachelor sleuth.

Art (C) Shawn Brunner ,aka Patchi1995