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04-08-2018, 07:29 PM( This post was last modified: 04-08-2018, 07:29 PM by Wolverine )
(04-08-2018, 04:52 PM)brotherbear Wrote: 200 kg = about 441 pounds. I know that the Asiatic black bear can achieve this size, but do sloth bears?
Asiatic black bear often hibernate that way need additional fat, sloth bear as purely tropical animal never hibernate as long as I know. If you remove the fat from Asiatic black bear the pure muscle mass and dimentions of both bears should be equal.
04-08-2018, 07:53 PM( This post was last modified: 04-08-2018, 07:55 PM by Rishi )
(04-08-2018, 04:52 PM)brotherbear Wrote: 200 kg = about 441 pounds. I know that the Asiatic black bear can achieve this size, but do sloth bears?
The larger one's can! They're almost similar in size to Himalayan BlackBears & larger than Indochinese ones.
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(04-08-2018, 07:29 PM)Wolverine Wrote: Asiatic black bear often hibernate that way need additional fat, sloth bear as purely tropical animal never hibernate as long as I know. If you remove the fat from Asiatic black bear the pure muscle mass and dimentions of both bears should be equal.
I can't speak for Ussuri, North-chinese ones (if any) but Himalayan ones aren't known to hibernate. They climb down a bit in winter...
04-09-2018, 11:15 AM( This post was last modified: 04-09-2018, 11:38 AM by Wolverine )
(04-08-2018, 07:53 PM)Rishi Wrote:
(04-08-2018, 04:52 PM)brotherbear Wrote: 200 kg = about 441 pounds. I know that the Asiatic black bear can achieve this size, but do sloth bears?
The larger one's can! They're almost similar in size to Himalayan BlackBears & larger than Indochinese ones.
*This image is copyright of its original author
(04-08-2018, 07:29 PM)Wolverine Wrote: Asiatic black bear often hibernate that way need additional fat, sloth bear as purely tropical animal never hibernate as long as I know. If you remove the fat from Asiatic black bear the pure muscle mass and dimentions of both bears should be equal.
I can't speak for Ussuri, North-chinese ones (if any) but Himalayan ones aren't known to hibernate. They climb down a bit in winter...
Of course Asiatic black bears from Russian Far East, Chinese Manchuria, North Korea where winter continues 5-6 months and temperatures fall to -30 -40C even at low elevations, everything is covered by snow and there is nothing to eat in the frozen forest do hibernate for many months.
Concerning Asiatic black bears from Himalaya mountains you are right, they avoid hibernation by descending to lower elevations, I just check some sources, that's something new for me. Actually when they descend to lower elevation probably they can meet a sloth bears inhabiting mainly the hot plains of India.
It was in the middle of the day (anrd noon) when it all unfolded. T-19 was gone for 2 days and cubs were staying around this waterhole. For the whole morning they were disturbed by passing vehicals and were scared to come to waterhole for a drink. Soon the day visit gypsies were gone and a handfull of full and half day were left. After giving them some space and peace they decided to come down for a drink but till then a bear was already there to soak himself in the cool water. But the thirst and may be hunger took over this young guy (12 months only) and he decided to confront the bear while other 2 stayed back..it all ended in less than a minute and soon all 3 cubs had the waterhole to themselves..
Hats off to the cub who had the courage to intimidate a fully grown bear..
(07-03-2018, 04:27 PM)Shir Babr Wrote: Did the bear just spat water on the gaur's face?
Yes man, I Thought so too and it reminded me some years before when I found that while on a zoo, as I was getting up close to a sloth bear which was opening its mouth to be fed, its breath smelled horrible it surely wanted foods from me which I obviously did not give, after some moments the bear pretty much annoyed, spat at my face but the saliva fell just short, luckily it had not gulped water otherwise it would had drenched me in foul smelly shower, so sloth bear do shoot saliva or water for different reasons as in this video, so my advise to all is: do not stand near sloth bear face to face while watching it in a zoo it's from my first hand experience!!!
Sloth bears are opportunistic omnivores. In the wild their favourite food is termites. We often see them digging into termite mounds. Witnessing them feeding off a carcass though, is rare! These images were captured on a mobile phone last evening. While the quality is not great, they show a rare sighting of a sloth bear on a buffalo calf carcass. The calf was killed by a leopard. This morning, the entire carcass has been moved and is out of sight.
Sloth Bear
