Eating

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Primarily vegetarian, the spectacled bear feeds on fruit and leaves. They have a varied diet depending on seasonal and altitudinal food availability, mostly fruit but occasionally small animals and carrion. Spectacled bears eat a wide variety of foods, including rabbits, mice, birds, berries, grasses, palms and orchid bulbs, but have a strong preference for the leaves, bases, and hearts of plants of the Bromeliaceae family and the fruits of other plant groups. They love fruit and will spend days eating and sleeping in fruit trees. Sometimes they climb cacti to feed on fruit at the top. Spectacled bears are the most varied herbivorous bear species.