Though this species is vulnerable to extinction and in most cases killing these bears is illegal, farmers kill spectacled bears to protect their animals.
The first direct observation of spectacled bear attack on cattle and subsequent feeding on a carcass was made in 1997 by a park warden in Chingaza National Park in Colombia.
Local livestock farmers would awake to find their cattle had been attacked in the middle of the night and would blame the spectacled bear, but this was treated as part of local bear folklore.
" What is it? What? " asked both princesses when they saw for a moment at the door Prince Andrew and the figure of the old man in a white dressing gown, spectacled and wigless, shouting in an angry voice.
There are an estimated 20,000 bears from Venezuela to Bolivia, with Peru being the spectacled bear capital of the world with a population of 5,700. It goes without saying but spectacled bear cubs are adorable.