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This group gathers Carnivorans that belong to the bear family, Ursidae, the largest living land carnivorans by body size, built with a heavy frame, a short tail and, unlike most of the rest of the order, a diet that in several living species has shifted mostly or entirely away from meat. It spans the polar bear, the most carnivorous living bear, the American and Asian black bears, the grizzly and other brown bear populations, the sloth bear with its long claws and lips adapted for feeding on termites and honey, the sun bear, and the giant panda and red panda, both traditionally grouped with the bears or their close relatives despite the giant panda's almost entirely bamboo diet. Their shared large body size and largely solitary habits set them apart from the more strictly carnivorous cats and the highly social dogs.

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1. Wikipedia: Taxonomic rank
WikipediaTaxonomic rank, Fundamental ranks section, rank sequence sentence, group 515504
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kingdom, phylum or division, class, order, family, genus, and species
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2. Wikipedia: Mammal
WikipediaMammal, lead section, group 515504
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All modern mammals give birth to live young, except the five species of monotremes, which lay eggs.
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Cave bear (Wikipedia)
Has Member: Cave bear, Lead
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The cave bear (Ursus spelaeus) is a prehistoric species of bear
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Tremarctos floridanus (Wikipedia)
Has Member: Florida spectacled bear, Lead
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Tremarctos floridanus is an extinct species of short-faced bear from North America.
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Ursus etruscus (Wikipedia)
Has Member: Etruscan bear, Lead
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Ursus etruscus, the Etruscan bear, is an extinct bear species
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Ursus deningeri (Wikipedia)
Has Member: Deninger's bear, Lead
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Ursus deningeri (sometimes called Deninger's bear) is an extinct species of bear
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Ursus minimus (Wikipedia)
Has Member: Auvergne bear, Lead
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Ursus minimus (the Auvergne bear) is an extinct species of bear
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Ursus ingressus (Wikipedia)
Has Member: Gamssulzen cave bear, Lead
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Ursus ingressus is an extinct species of the cave bear species complex
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Ailuropoda baconi (Wikipedia)
Has Member: Ailuropoda baconi, Lead
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Ailuropoda baconi is an extinct species or subspecies of bear
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Ailuropoda microta (Wikipedia)
Has Member: Ailuropoda microta, Lead
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Ailuropoda microta is the earliest known member of the genus Ailuropoda
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Brown bear (Wikipedia)
Has Member: Brown bear, Lead
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The brown bear (Ursus arctos) is a large bear native to Eurasia and North America.
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Ursus rossicus (Wikipedia)
Has Member: Pleistocene small cave bear, Lead
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Ursus rossicus is an extinct species of bear
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Ursus dolinensis (Wikipedia)
Has Member: Gran Dolina bear, Lead
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Ursus dolinensis (the Gran Dolina bear) is an extinct mammalian carnivore species of the Ursidae family.
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Kretzoiarctos (Wikipedia)
Has Member: Kretzoiarctos beatrix, Lead
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Kretzoiarctos is an extinct bear genus from the European Miocene.
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Arctodus (Wikipedia)
  • Has Member: Giant short-faced bear, Lead, subfamily of bears, bear group
    Arctodus belongs to the Tremarctinae subfamily of bears, which are endemic to the Americas.
  • Has Member: Lesser short-faced bear, Lead, subfamily of bears, bear group
    Arctodus belongs to the Tremarctinae subfamily of bears, which are endemic to the Americas.
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Arctotherium (Wikipedia)
Has Member: Arctotherium angustidens, Taxonomy, subfamily of bears, bear group
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Arctotherium is part of the Tremarctinae subfamily of bears, otherwise known as the short faced bears
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Ailuropoda wulingshanensis (Wikipedia)
Has Member: Ailuropoda wulingshanensis, Lead, giant panda lineage, bear group
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Ailuropoda wulingshanensis is an extinct species of bear belonging to the giant panda (Ailuropoda) lineage that existed during the Early Pleistocene.
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Ailuropodinae (Wikipedia)
Has Member: Agriarctos nikolovi, Taxonomy, species of the subfamily
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Agriarctos nikolovi Jiangzuo & Spassov, 2022
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