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According to scientists, yes, as they are both ursidae.
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Are panda bears and polar bears alike?
first pandas a herbivores and polar bears are omnivores there are two types of pandas a red panda and giant panda polar bear and panda both eat plants pandas are black and whit while polar bears are jst white
How are polar bears and giant pandas related?
There's been a long debate over whether or not giant pandas are bears; the evidence is favoring the view that they are, after years of being associated as sort of enormous raccoons. The polar bear has also changed genus (from Thalarctos, the sea-bears, to Ursus, the true bears) so it, too, is a bear.Bears and dogs are members of a family that originated in North America during the Miocene.
How are pandas unlike polar bears?
Well, for one, it's habitat. The Giant Panda lives in the mountains of China, and have adapted to that sort of enviroment. Also, pandas look different to any other bear in its own way, including the rings around its eyes ect.. Pandas are not actually bears. Their closest relatives are racoon-type mammals.
Where does a bear?
Bears live mostly in temperate forests. Polar bears live in the Arctic, and giant pandas live in mountain regions of China.
How many bears in the wold?
12,037,456 (that is, not counting polar bears and wild pandas) 12,037,456 (that is, not counting polar bears and wild pandas)
Which are more popular pandas or polar bears?
pandas
Which zoos in the UK have Polar bears?
The Edinburgh Zoo in Scotland is currently the only zoo in the UK housing giant pandas.
To what are polar bears related?
polar bears are related to bears.
Is the brown bear the only animal related to the polar bear?
No. All other bears that share the same Genus name Ursa, are related to the polar bear. This includes grizzly bears, black bears, sloth bears and sun bears. The Giant Panda is also related, however distantly.
Do pandas and polar bears have any similarities?
yes they do
Why is the cephalogale an ancestor to the polar bear?
Cephalogale was a primitive, superficially raccoon-like animal that gave rise to both the "bear-dogs" of the family Hemicyonidae, and to Ursavus, the immediate ancestor of all true bears, including grizzly bears, polar bears and giant pandas.
What are the contrast of panda and polar bear?
Polar bears are carnivorous. Panda bears are nearly complete herbivores. Polar bears are also much larger than pandas.
