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Shrilankan Sloth BearSloth bears breed during spring and early summer and give birth near the beginning of winter. When their territories are encroached upon by humans, they sometimes attack them. Historically, humans have drastically reduced these bears' habitat and diminished their population by hunting them for food and products such as their bacula and claws. Sloth bears have been tamed and used as performing animals and as petsSloth bears may have reached their current form in the Early Pleistocene, the time when the bear family specialised and dispersed. A fragment of fossilised humerus from the Pleistocene, found in Andhra Pradesh's Kurnool Basin is identical to the humerus of a modern sloth bear. The fossilised skulls of a bear once named Melursus theobaldi found in the Shivaliks from the Early Pleistocene or Early Pliocene are thought by certain authors to represent an intermediate stage between sloth bears and ancestral brown bears.

Shrilankan South Sloth Bear

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SKU: N/A Category: Leo Tags: Sloth bears may have reached their current form in the Early Pleistocene, The sloth bear is one of eight extant species in the bear family Ursidae and of six extant species in the subfamily Ursinae., The sloth bear shows evidence of having undergone a convergent evolution similar to that of other ant-eating mammals., the time when the bear family specialised and dispersed.

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Shrilankan Sloth BearSloth bears breed during spring and early summer and give birth near the beginning of winter. When their territories are encroached upon by humans, they sometimes attack them. Historically, humans have drastically reduced these bears' habitat and diminished their population by hunting them for food and products such as their bacula and claws. Sloth bears have been tamed and used as performing animals and as petsSloth bears may have reached their current form in the Early Pleistocene, the time when the bear family specialised and dispersed. A fragment of fossilised humerus from the Pleistocene, found in Andhra Pradesh's Kurnool Basin is identical to the humerus of a modern sloth bear. The fossilised skulls of a bear once named Melursus theobaldi found in the Shivaliks from the Early Pleistocene or Early Pliocene are thought by certain authors to represent an intermediate stage between sloth bears and ancestral brown bears.

Shrilankan Sloth Bear

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Printable Size Or Screen Resolution	A2 : 1920 x 1080 pixels Screen Display, A3 : 1200 x 800 pixels Screen Display, A4 : 1080 x 700 pixels Screen Display, Printable A2 : 3508 x 4960 PIXELS, Printable A3 : 2480 x 3508 PIXELS, Printable A4 : 1748 x 2480 PIXELS