Researchers have captured footage of these bears making a wide range of vocalizations during their most intimate moments—the first time sounds of this kind have been documented in any bear species.

The spectacled bear is native to Andean countries like Peru, Ecuador, northern Argentina, Bolivia and Venezuela and lives in ...

New discoveries about the Andean bear language show that the species makes five distinct sounds during mating. Photograph by Lucas Bustamante, Nature Picture Library ...

"The bar for the bear has been raised awfully high," said Nick De Semlyen in Empire. It's been a decade since the "polite, Peruvian furball with a hankering for fruit preserves" first graced our ...