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Diet of sloth bear in an agroforest landscape in eastern India

Agroforestry Systems, 2019
Sloth bears are one commonly implicated conflict prone animals in agroforest landscape in India. To determine their diet, and understand the possible use of cultivated food, a study was conducted using faecal analyses in an agroforest landscape of northern Odisha, India.
Himanshu Shekhar Palei, Subrat Debata, Hemanta Kumar Sahu   +2 more
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A Study on Human - Sloth Bear Conflicts in and around Gudekote Sloth Bear Sanctuary, Vijayanagara District, Karnataka, India

Ecology, Environment and Conservation
Human - sloth bear conflicts are occurring due to increase in the interference but the humans and also due to the shrinking of forest area. The causing the sloth bears to move from natural forests to the nearby agriculture lands in search of food and water. This causes increased human - sloth bear conflicts in many of the areas.
B.V. Byra Reddy, J.S. Chandrashekar
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Home Ranges of Sloth Bears in Nepal: Implications for Conservation

The Journal of Wildlife Management, 1995
Sloth bears (Melursus ursinus) are the only myrmecophagous ursid. Ursids generally have large home ranges, often with widely separated seasonal ranges, whereas myrmecophagous mammals tend to have relatively small ranges for their body size. During 1990-93, we captured and radiocollared 18 sloth bears in Royal Chitwan National Park, Nepal, and tracked ...
Anup R. Joshi, David L. Garshelis, James L. D. Smith   +2 more
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Selection of microsatellite loci for genetic monitoring of sloth bears

Ursus, 2013
Abstract The sloth bear (Melursus ursinus) is a threatened species endemic to the Indian subcontinent. To date, no reliable method has been developed for identifying individuals or monitoring their populations. Here we describe a non-invasive genetic monitoring technique for individual identification of sloth bears.
Sandeep Sharma, Trishna Dutta, Jesús E. Maldonado, Thomas C. Wood, Hemendra Singh Panwar, John Seidensticker   +5 more
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Sloth bear immobilization with a ketamine-xylazine combination: Reversal with yohimbine

Journal of the American Veterinary Medical Association, 1986
SUMMARY Five captive sloth bears (Melursus ursinus) were immobilized with a combination of ketamine (5.80 to 9.75 mg/kg of body weight) and xylazine (1.40 to 2.44 mg/kg), given im. The youngest bear was immobilized twice, 62 days apart; all other bears were immobilized only once. Induction times were 4 to 25 minutes.
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Sloth bears and anthropogenic risks in Karnataka, India

Ursus, 2022
Attur Shanmugam Arun, Thomas Robert Sharp, Shanmugavelu Swaminathan, Yogaraj Pannerselvam, Kartick Satyanarayan, Geeta Seshamani   +5 more
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Habitat occupancy of sloth bear Melursus ursinus in Chitwan National Park, Nepal

Ecology and Evolution, 2022
Rajan Prasad Paudel, Rabin Kadariya, Babu Ram Lamichhane   +2 more
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How to behave in sloth bear territory

Research Outreach, 2021
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The Plantigrade Segnosaurians: Sloth Dinosaurs or Bear Dinosaurs?

Paleontological Journal, 2021
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Intestinal Trichobezoars in a Captive Sloth Bear

The Journal of Zoo Animal Medicine, 1979
A. T. Rao, L. N. Acharjyo
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