Big Horn Bear

The Big Horn Bear is an endangered horned bear species that only appears in the 1999 anime adaptation.

Appearance
The Big Horn Bear has a similar appearance to the Foxbear of Whale Island, aside from the fact of its dark-colored fur and lyre-shaped horns covered in a rare and distinct type of moss.

Behavior
Like Fox Bears, they can be territorial and attack anyone that dares to enter their territory.

Hunter Exam arc
After unanimously failing every single examinee in the 2nd Phase of the Hunter Exam, the abrasive examinee #255 named Todo besmirches the Gourmet Hunter name which infuriates one of the examiners named Menchi. So to prove what it's like to be a Gourmet Hunter, Menchi proclaims that within one she'll bring back a special parting gift. She goes onto an excursion to the Raoul Mountain that's across the Milsy Wetlands to procure some moss from a Big Horn Bear. She finds and briefly fights one, while deftly managing to slice off a stash of moss from one of its horns.

Menchi returns to the exam site with a small bottle of the Big Horn Bear Moss. She then dices the moss up and sprinkles it over a plate of rice and tries to serve it to Todo, who refuses to it as it's moss, so examinee #405 Gon eats it instead. His opinion on how the dish tastes taste is ambivalent as in his opinion it tastes "Mysterious". Menchi goes onto elaborate about the Big Horn Bear's background and how Gourmet Hunters around the world drool over the magnificent taste of the moss. On the other hand, Todo is still not convinced and continued to besmirch the name of Gourment Hunting.