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Notulae Scientia Biologicae, 2015 Characterisations of the Sloth bear (Melursus ursinus) diet during three distinguished seasons (monsoon, winter and summer) in the semi-arid region of western India was under study.
Tana P. MEWADA
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Habitat occupancy of sloth bear Melursus ursinus in Chitwan National Park, Nepal. [PDF]
Ecol Evol, 2022 Mammals around the world face serious threats and experience massive decline in their populations and geographic ranges. The sloth bear has become extinct from two of five range countries and the existing population face serious conservation threats.
Paudel RP +6 more
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Journal of Threatened Taxa, 2013 We used information from systematic camera trapping surveys to study activity patterns of sloth bear (Melursus ursinus) in Mudumalai Tiger Reserve, Western Ghats during November 2009 to April 2010.Overall 61 independent photographs were obtained from ...
T. Ramesh +3 more
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Genetic Variation, Structure, and Gene Flow in a Sloth Bear (Melursus ursinus) Meta-Population in the Satpura-Maikal Landscape of Central India. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2015 Sloth bears (Melursus ursinus) are endemic to the Indian subcontinent. As a result of continued habitat loss and degradation over the past century, sloth bear populations have been in steady decline and now exist only in isolated or fragmented habitat ...
Trishna Dutta +4 more
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, 1982 Melursus ursinus (Shaw, 1791). Nat. Misc., 2 (unpaged) pl. 58. TYPE LOCALITY: India, Bihar, Patna. DISTRIBUTION: Sri Lanka; India, north to the Indian desert and to the foothills of the Himalayas. ISIS NUMBER: 5301412002003001001.
James H. Honacki +2 more
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, 1982 Melursus Meyer, 1793. Zool. Entdeck., p. 155. COMMENT: See comment under Helarctos. Melursus was considered a subgenus of Ursus by Hall, 1981:947, and a distinct genus by Corbet and Hill, 1980:94. ISIS NUMBER: 5301412002003000000.
James H. Honacki +2 more
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, 1993 Melursus Meyer, 1793. Zool. Entdeck., p. 155. TYPE SPECIES: Melursus lybius Meyer, 1793 (= Bradypus ursinus Shaw, 1791), by monotypy (Melville and Smith, 1987). COMMENTS: Revised by Pocock (1932b). See comments under Helarctos concerning the relationship between these taxa.
W. Christopher Wozencraft
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, 1993 Melursus ursinus (Shaw, 1791). Nat. Mise., 2 (unpaged) pl. 58. TYPE LOCALITY: "Abinteriore Bengala"; restricted by Pocock (1941a) as "Patna, north of the Ganges, Bengal" [India]. DISTRIBUTION: Sri Lanka; India, north to the Indian desert and to the foothills of the Himalayas. STATUS: CITES - Appendix I; IUCN - Vulnerable.
W. Christopher Wozencraft
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PLoS ONE, 2017 Sloth bears (Melursus ursinus) caused the highest number of human deaths between 2001 and 2015 and ranked second compared to other wild animals in causing human casualties in the Kanha-Pench corridor area. We studied the patterns of sloth bear attacks in
Aniruddha H Dhamorikar +3 more
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OCULAR FINDINGS IN SLOTH BEARS (MELURSUS URSINUS) RESCUED FROM THE DANCING BEAR TRADE IN INDIA [PDF]
Journal of Zoo and Wildlife MedicineThe aim of this study was to descriptively characterize the ophthalmic findings identified in 43 adult sloth bears (Melursus ursinus) rescued from the dancing bear trade in India and examined at two sloth bear rehabilitation centers in Agra and Bannerghatta nr. Bangalore.
Hartley, Claudia; id_orcid 0000-0002-1246-6479 +8 more
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