Teddiursa is a bipedal, ursine Pokémon covered in short, orange-brown fur. Its muzzle is light tan with a small black nose and black eyes. There is a slightly paler tan crescent marking on its face, and it has round ears. It has three claws on its forepaws as well as two claws and yellow paw pads on its hind paws. Its tail is short, round, and puffy.
Teddiursa uses Beedrill pollen and fruit to create its own honey. The marking on its face glows when it finds honey already made. Honey is often absorbed into Teddiursa's forepaws, and it is often seen licking them. It will hide food stores throughout its territory before food becomes scarce in winter. Teddiursa lives in mountainous forests.
Teddiursa made its main series debut in UnBEARable. It was a manipulative thief who would pretend to be cute to humans in order to steal their food and blame it on their Pokémon. Ultimately, it evolved into Ursaring at the end of the episode, and was thus no longer able to use its charm on humans with ease anymore.
A Teddiursa appeared in Going For A Spinda. It was disguised as a Spinda by Team Rocket and tied up in order to lure a Spinda to them, but instead, its Ursaring parent came and blasted them away.
Multiple Teddiursa appeared in Leading a Stray!, where they were among the Pokémon assisting a Luxio in its efforts to help a Wailmer trapped in the sewers.
A Teddiursa appeared in The Power of Us as one of the Pokémon befriended by Margo. It and a Ditto were targeted by Pokémon hunters looking for Zeraora, but they were saved by Zeraora, Ash, and his friends.
A Teddiursa appeared in a flashback in Lights, Camerupt, Action!, where it was an actor in a film starring Red that Ash and Gary were watching when they were younger.
Teddiursa, the Little Bear Pokémon. This cute, cuddly Pokémon is easily frightened and frequently licks its paws, which are usually covered with sweet honey.
This Pokémon likes to lick its palms that are sweetened by being soaked in honey. Teddiursa concocts its own honey by blending fruits and pollen collected by Beedrill.
This Pokémon likes to lick its palms that are sweetened by being soaked in honey. Teddiursa concocts its own honey by blending fruits and pollen collected by Beedrill.
Teddiursa may be considered a counterpart of Phanpy: their evolution lines are exclusive to opposite versions of Pokémon Gold and Silver and Pokémon HeartGold and SoulSilver (and are the only Pokémon to swap version-exclusive status between localizations), they each have one evolved form, and they both have Pickup as an Ability and lose it upon evolution.
Origin
Teddiursa is based on a teddy bear and possibly a sun bear or sloth bearcub, both honey bears. The moon marking and the fact that it is a bear cub may mean it might have been based on the constellation Ursa Minor's mythology.
Name origin
Teddiursa is a combination of teddy bear and ursa (Latin for bear).
Himeguma may be a combination of 姫 hime (princess, small) or hi (an alternate reading of 朏 mikazuki [crescent moon]) and 熊 kuma (bear).
Hime is the Japanese word for princess, but also used as small in Japanese nomenclature of species.