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Extrahepatic biliary carcinoma in sloth bears
Journal of the American Veterinary Medical Association, 1984Summary Extrahepatic biliary carcinoma was found in each of 5 adult sloth bears that died between 1970 and 1984 while on exhibit in Ohio zoos. The tumor was characterized by numerous mucin-producing neoplastic glands scattered throughout abundant fibrous stroma. The cause of the tumor was not determined.
S J, Gosselin, L W, Kramer
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Sociobiology of the myrmecophagous sloth bear in Nepal
Canadian Journal of Zoology, 1999Ursids have adapted to environments ranging from the tropics to the arctic, and although the family is noted for its omnivory, some species have specialized food habits. The sloth bear (Melursus ursinus) has specialized on insect prey, particularly termites and ants, and exhibits some characteristics and behaviors that are common among myrmecophagous ...
Anup R. Joshi +2 more
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Picture recognition of food by sloth bears (Melursus ursinus)
Animal Cognition, 2019Pictures are often used in cognitive research to represent objects and many species have demonstrated the ability to recognize two-dimensional pictures as representations of their three-dimensional counterparts. However, for ursids picture recognition has been reported in only one study of a single 11-year-old female American black bear (Johnson-Ulrich
S. Tabellario +3 more
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Sloth bear denning behavior in eastern Karnataka, India
UrsusShanmugavelu Swaminathan +6 more
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The Status and Conservation of Sloth Bear in Rajasthan
2013This chapter presents the ecology, behaviour and status of Sloth Bear in Rajasthan. Four species of bear, namely, Sloth Bear (Melursus ursinus), Asiatic Black Bear (Ursus thibetanus), Himalayan Brown Bear (Ursus arctos) and Malayan Sun Bear (Ursus malayanus), are found in India.
Harendra Singh Bargali, B. K. Sharma
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Habituation to environmental enrichment in captive sloth bears—effect on stereotypies
Zoo Biology, 2010AbstractThe benefits to captive animals of environmental enrichment (EE) are widely recognized. Few studies have, however, studied how to maximise the effect of EE. One issue with EE programs seems to be habituation to the enrichment device. To study the effect of habituation to EE, 14 captive sloth bears (Melursus ursinus) were subjected to two ...
Claes, Anderson +2 more
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Diet of sloth bear in an agroforest landscape in eastern India
Agroforestry Systems, 2019Sloth 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 +2 more
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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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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, 1995Sloth 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 +2 more
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Selection of microsatellite loci for genetic monitoring of sloth bears
Ursus, 2013Abstract 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 +5 more
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