Sloth Bear

[brotherbear]

Parvez; I will answer that at 'Bears as Predators.' 
About posts #34 and #35... It states that perhaps the reason a sloth bear prefers to either flee or fight when threatened by a predator rather than escape up a tree is because of the leopard, a predator of sloth bears. Perhaps the bear is better able to defend himself on the ground while, in a tree, perhaps the leopard might have the advantage. On the ground, as you have mentioned, sloth bears have been witnessed chasing leopards. 
If not this reason ( the best theory that I have found thus far ) then why - unlike the black bears, sun bear, and Andes bear - will a sloth bear not escape a tiger by retreating up a tree? Reply