Hierarchy classification:

1. top of the aat hierarchies
2. Agents Facet
3. Living Organisms (hierarchy name)
4. living organisms (entities)
5. Eukaryota (domain)
6. Animalia (kingdom)
7. Chordata (phylum)
8. Vertebrata (subphylum)
9. Mammalia (class)
10. Carnivora (order)

Narrower term/s

• Ailuropoda (genus)[+]
  • Ailuropoda melanoleuca (species)
• Ursus (genus)[+]
  • Ursus maritimus (species)
  • Ursus arctos (species) [+]
    • Ursus arctos horribilis (subspecies)
    • Ursus arctos middendorffi (subspecies)
  • Ursus spelaeus (extinct species)

Anotations

Scope note:

Family containing nine species in six genera, characterized as being large, short-tailed, having stocky legs, a long snout, shaggy hair, and plantigrade paws with five non-retractile claws. Bears are generally omnivorous, but some bears are entirely carnivorous (like the polar bear ) or vegetarian (like the panda).