Why are there no bears in Africa and were there ever?

Question

Why are there no bears in Africa and were there ever?

Answer 1

'Cos they don't happen to live there.  Bears have previously lived in North Africa.  A genus called /Indarctos/ is known from the Miocene fossil record, and /Ursus/, the brown bear, ranged in during the Plestiocene.

Answer 2

actually they did and probably still do.. there's sightings and stories of what is called the Nandi Bear. :) some cryptozoologist think it's the atlas bear which supposedly when extinct long ago.. :) it was a subspecies of the brown bear or distant relative

Answer 3

There are only lions and tigers in Africa!