Abstract
The Spectacled bear (Tremarctos ornatus) is the only representative of the family Ursidae in South America. The largest and most continuous Andean bear population in Peru is located on the eastern slopes of the Oriental Range, including Departamento Puno, where most reports are based only on surveys. We describe two indirect records of Andean bear's presence from Departamento Puno, obtained on August 2009. The first record is a scat with seeds belonging to the family Lauraceae, and found in Yanacocha; the second record consists of some bear's claw marks found in Challohuma, which represents also the southernmost confirmed record of the Spectacled bear in Peru. Also our records confirm a continuous distribution of this species on the eastern Andean slopes from southern Peru to northwestern Bolivia. Furthermore, these records, found very close to the highly diverse Bahuaja Sonene National Park (BSNP), suggest it is very important to establish conservation strategies both within and outside of BSNP's buffer zone.
| Translated title of the contribution | Nuevas evidencias de la presencia del Oso Andino (Tremarctos ornatus) en las Yungas de Puno, el registro más austral de Perú |
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| Original language | Spanish |
| Pages (from-to) | 377-380 |
| Number of pages | 4 |
| Journal | Revista Peruana de Biologia |
| Volume | 17 |
| Issue number | 3 |
| State | Published - Dec 2010 |
Bibliographical note
Funding Information:La población más grande y contigua de osos de anteojos en el Perú se localiza en la ladera oriental de la cordillera oriental (Peyton 1999), la cual atraviesa la parte norte del departamento de Puno, y donde se ha reportado la presencia del oso andino en la provincia de Sandia (Grimwood 1969, Peyton 1980). También Trinidad Tapia (com. pers.) reportó a la especie para la provincia de Sandia, en los distritos de Limbani, Patambuco, Phara, Sandia, Yanahuaya, Quiaca, San Juan del Oro y San Pedro de Putina Punco; y para la provincia de Carabaya, en los distritos de Ayapata, Coasa, Ituata, Usicayos, Oyachea y San Gabán. La mayoría de estas localidades se encuentran fuera del Parque Nacional Bahuaja Sonene (PNBS) y mantienen una gran presión antrópica (T. Tapia, com. pers.). Información adicional recopilada por Figueroa y Stucchi (2009) incluye registros del oso andino dentro del PNBS a 750 m y para la zona de amor-tiguamiento (ZA) del PNBS entre 800 y 1080 m de altitud.
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