Sloth Bear

[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.

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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...

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. Reply