11 Facts About Sloth bear

Sloth bear is a myrmecophagous bear species native to the Indian subcontinent.

Sloth bear muzzles are thick and long, with small jaws and bulbous snouts with wide nostrils.

Sloth bear fur is completely black, save for a whitish Y- or V-shaped mark on the chest.

Sloth bear mothers carry their cubs up trees as the primary defense against attacks by predators instead of sending them up trees.

The sloth bear is listed in Schedule I of the Indian Wildlife Protection Act, 1972, which provides for their legal protection.

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Commercial international trade of the sloth bear is prohibited as it is listed in Appendix I of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species.

In Madhya Pradesh, sloth bear attacks accounted for the deaths of 48 people and the injuring of 686 others between 1989 and 1994, probably due in part to the density of population and competition for food sources.

In 2016, according to a forest official, a female Sloth bear had killed three people, and hurt five others in Gujarat State's Banaskantha district, near Balaram Ambaji Wildlife Sanctuary, with some of the casualties being colleagues.

The Sloth bear was fed almost anything and was very affectionate toward people.

The effort to end the practice involved helping the Sloth bear handlers find jobs and education, which enabled them to reduce their reliance on dancing-Sloth bear income.

In Rudyard Kipling's The Jungle Book, Baloo "the sleepy old brown Sloth bear" teaches the Law of the Jungle to the wolf cubs of the Seeonee wolf pack, as well as to his most challenging pupil, the "man-cub" Mowgli.