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  • Sloth Bear Animals
    Photographs and fact sheet from BBC Online. Sloth bears are stocky with long, shaggy, black hair and a white U or Yshaped marking on the chest. They have large lips, a long tongue, a pale muzzle and welldeveloped hooklike claws that enable them to cl ...
    http://www.bbc.co.uk/nature/wildfacts/factfiles/13.shtml
 
  • All About Sloth Bears
    Contains a picture and a brief description. Bears are among the best and least known of animals. Everyone recognizes a giant panda, for instance, while few people can picture a sloth bear. Native to the Indian subcontinent, sloth bears are fascinatin ...
    http://nationalzoo.si.edu/Animals/AsiaTrail/SlothBears/
 
  • Sloth Bear
    Contains several pictures and a short biography of this bear. The Sloth bear has very shaggy hair. Their muzzle is long, much longer than the other seven bears. Using their claws to dig, they can then use their lips to form a tube which can go deep i ...
    http://www.billybear4kids.com/animal/whose-toes/toes2a-slothbear.html
 
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  • A Sloth Bear
    Contains several pictures and videos in addition to the written description of this bear. The small sloth bear is unique amongst the bears, as insects are its main food source. It has a long, shaggy, coat with particularly long hair over the shoulder ...
    http://www.arkive.org/sloth-bear/melursus-ursinus/
 
  • Sloth Bear In India
    Information on the ecology, behavior, and conservation of this animal. From 1996 to 2000, we investigated the behavioral ecology of sloth bear in Panna National Park, central India. The sloth bear Melursus ursinus is endemic to the Indian subcontinen ...
    http://home.comcast.net/~cefprice/slothbear/Sloth_bear_page.htm
 
  • The Sloth Bear
    Fun facts including how this animal was originally classified as a sloth, not a bear. Sloth bears belong to the family Ursidae, which includes eight species of bear.* Sloth bears are found in the lower elevations of Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Nepal a ...
    http://www.zoo.org/factsheets/sloth_bear/slothBear.html
 
  • The Melursus Ursinus
    Contains a picture and a detailed description of this bear. The sloth bear is relatively small, with long hair and shaggy coat. The bear is often black, but reddish animals have been seen. The nostrils of the muzzle can be closed at will, possibly as ...
    http://www.bears.org/animals/sloth/
 
 
 
 
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