Mislabeled and Misunderstood: Large Mammal Distribution Underscores Ecological Significance of Agro‐Pastoral “Wastelands” in India's Deccan Peninsula [PDF]
Ecology and EvolutionMulti‐use landscapes are now recognized for their value in supporting biodiversity and aiding species conservation, including charismatic megafauna. However, semi‐arid open‐canopy human‐use landscapes have faced multiple anthropogenic stressors over the ...
Iravatee Majgaonkar +3 more
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Pandemic (H1N1) 2009 influenza A virus infection associated with respiratory signs in sloth bears (Melursus ursinus) [PDF]
Zoonoses and Public Health, 2017 SummaryIn 2009, a pandemic influenza A virus (pH1N1) spread globally in humans and infected a broad range of captive animals with close human contact. In February 2014, a pH1N1 virus was isolated from a sloth bear with respiratory signs at a US zoo, demonstrating that recurring epidemics present an ongoing threat to animals, including threatened ...
N C Boedeker, S Murray
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Isolation, Characterization, and Drug Sensitivity of Mycobacterium tuberculosis in Captive Sloth Bears (Melursus ursinus): Unnatural Habitat With Human Environment May Predispose Sloth Bears to Tuberculosis [PDF]
Frontiers in Veterinary Science, 2022 We describe the isolation, molecular characterization, and drug sensitivity of Mycobacterium tuberculosis recovered from lung tissues of four rescued captive sloth bears (Melursus ursinus) at Bannerghatta Biological Park (BBP), Bangalore, India.
Chandranaik B. Marinaik +6 more
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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.
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Factors affecting the occupancy of sloth bear and its detection probability in Parsa–Koshi Complex, Nepal [PDF]
Ecology and Evolution, 2023 Understanding factors associated with coexistence of human and wildlife in human‐dominated landscapes is crucial for effective species conservation.
Hari Prasad Sharma +13 more
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N-mixture model-based estimate of relative abundance of sloth bear (Melursus ursinus) in response to biotic and abiotic factors in a human-dominated landscape of central India [PDF]
PeerJ, 2022 Reliable estimation of abundance is a prerequisite for a species’ conservation planning in human-dominated landscapes, especially if the species is elusive and involved in conflicts. As a means of population estimation, the importance of camera traps has
Sankarshan Chaudhuri +4 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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Chemical Immobilization of Sloth Bears (Melursus ursinus) with Ketamine Hydrochloride and Xylazine Hydrochloride: Hematology and Serum Biochemical Values [PDF]
Veterinary Medicine International, 2014 The present study was conducted to define the physiological responses of captive sloth bears immobilized with ketamine hydrochloride and xylazine hydrochloride and to determine and compare the values of hematology and serum biochemical parameters between
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Gross and histopathological lesions associated with tuberculosis in two sloth bears (Melursus ursinus) in India [PDF]
Journal of Veterinary and Animal Sciences, 2021 Post-mortem examination of two sloth bears which died in Bannerghatta Bear Rescue Centre, Bengaluru, Karnataka, were performed. Both the animals were anorectic and had considerable weight loss before death.
N.Gowri Menon +5 more
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Characteristics of human - sloth bear (Melursus ursinus) encounters and the resulting human casualties in the Kanha-Pench corridor, Madhya Pradesh, India. [PDF]
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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