Sloth Bear

[parvez]

(11-22-2016, 11:21 PM)brotherbear Wrote: I was told once by a veterinarian that a chow dog is not really so aggressive as people think. These dogs have very poor peripheral vision and are thus easily surprised. I have read that the sloth bear has a similar handicap, plus the fact that they are very noisy feeders when sucking up ants or termites; thus easily taken by surprise.

I do not think grizzly takes any animal by surprise. I think it is the trait of big cats. It surely will face sloth bear face to face or while the grizzly will run towards sloth bear, the sloth bear surely will get alerted and fight with full potential. May be because of poor peripheral vision among bears is the reason sloth bears must have evolved to be so much nasty fighters compared to other bears. I suppose they evolved stronger due to the same reason though it is indirect. Reply