What is "spectacled bear"

Spectacled \Spec"ta*cled\, a.

1. Furnished with spectacles; wearing spectacles.

   As spectacled she sits in chimney nook.
   --Keats.

2. (Zo["o]l.) Having the eyes surrounded by color markings, or patches of naked skin, resembling spectacles.

   Spectacled bear (Zo["o]l.), a South American bear ( Tremarclos ornatus) which inhabits the high mountains of Chili and Peru. It has a light-colored ring around each eye.

   Spectacled coot, or Spectacled duck (Zo["o]l.), the surf scoter, or surf duck. [Local, U.S.]

   Spectacled eider (Zo["o]l.) See Eider.

   Spectacled goose (Zo["o]l.), the gannet.

   Spectacled snake (Zo["o]l.), the cobra de capello.

n. (taxlink Tremarctos ornatus species), a species of small, short-faced bear native to South America.

The spectacled bear (Tremarctos ornatus), also known as the Andean bear or Andean short-faced bear and locally as jukumari ( Aymara), ukumari ( Quechua) or ukuku, is the last remaining short-faced bear (subfamily Tremarctinae). Its closest relatives are the extinct Florida spectacled bear, and the giant short -faced bears of the Middle Pleistocene to Late Pleistocene age. Spectacled bears are the only surviving species of bear native to South America, and the only surviving member of the subfamily Tremarctinae. The species is classified as Vulnerable by the IUCN because of habitat loss.