61. A Sloth Of Bears Broadsheet (15 x 21 inches). http://www.barbarianpress.com/catalog/tp-slothofbears.html

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62. Wildlife Animal Shelter For Tigers, Panthers, Black Bears, Leopards And Other La TwoToed sloth Choloepus Didactylus. Kingdom Animalia. Phylum Cordata. ClassMammalia. Click Here to See sloth Photo Library. Average Statistics. Length, 2 ft. http://vanishingspecies.net/animals/sloth/

Animal Index Baby Pictures Black Bear Caimen Camel ... Snakes Two-Toed Sloth Tiger Wolf Two-Toed Sloth Choloepus Didactylus Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Cordata Class: Mammalia Order: Xenarthra Family: Megalonychidae Genus: Choloepus Species: Didactylus Description Sloths are perhaps most famous for their ability to live and carry out many life functions in an upside down manner. Two-toed sloths have two long claws on their fore limbs and three claws on the hind limbs. . Sloths are covered with tan to greyish brown hairs. Apparently, the sloths hair is specially designed to allow algae to effectively colonize. Greenish camouflage is the most obvious advantage although it is a possibility that the sloths may somehow gain nutrition through absorption or consumption of the colony. Click Here to See Sloth Photo Library Average Statistics Length 2 ft. Weight 17 lbs Lifespan in Captivity 25-30 yrs Geographic Range Central and South American tropical forests Diet Sloths eat primarily vegetation such as leaves and fruit.

63. Science North / Science Nord, Sudbury, ON, Canada - Media Centre is thought to be an adaptation to defend against termites and ants.Like other bears, sloth bears are threatened by habitat loss. http://www2.sciencenorth.ca/pastmediareleases/00165045-000F8126-0024EEF1

For Immediate Release May 9, 2001 THE BEAR FACTS: American Black Bear Native only to North America, this highly adaptable bear can be found from the humid bayous of Louisiana, to the rain forests of the Pacific Northwest, to the tundras of Newfoundland. Opportunistic feeders, black bears eat everything from ants and other insects, nuts, berries and roots, to young deer, moose and salmon. Of all bears, this species seems to have the greatest tolerance of humans. But increased human presence in black bear habitat, due to urban sprawl, road building and other development, has caused human_bear encounters to increase steadily. Unfortunately, these encounters often end in bear mortality, with human fear leading to many needless shootings. Asiatic Black Bear Brown Bear (or Grizzly) Giant Panda Polar Bear Sloth Bear The shaggy, black sloth bear is found in the forests and grasslands of India, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, Nepal and Bhutan. Adult sloth bears form a feeding "tube" with their lips through which they suck up termites and ants, making loud sucking noises that can be heard from 350 feet away. Sloth bears can also close their nostrils at will, which is thought to be an adaptation to defend against termites and ants. Like other bears, sloth bears are threatened by habitat loss. In Bangladesh alone, the human population has almost tripled since 1950, significantly reducing sloth bear habitat. Heavy poaching for the medicinal market is also taking its toll, as are natural predators such as wild dogs, tigers and leopards, which sometimes prey on juvenile sloth bears.

64. The Seattle Press - Endangered Sloth Bear Born In Woodland Park Fewer than 10,000 sloth bears remain in the wild. sloth bears have a long,rough and shaggy coat of thick, reddishbrown to black fur. http://www.seattlepress.com/article-10020.html

65. ThinkQuest : Library : The Virtual Zoo sloth bears. Ranging through the tropical forests of India and SriLanka is the sloth bear, named for its usually slow movements. http://library.thinkquest.org/11922/bears/bears.htm

Index Life Science Animals The Virtual Zoo Take a trip through the Virtual Zoo. Here you will find animals from all over the world. Informative articles and beautiful photographs almost bring them to life. Study the natural habitats of the earth and how they shelter and feed the animals. You can even visit the Concession Stand for a delicious virtual snack! Visit Site 1997 ThinkQuest Internet Challenge Languages English Students Xian Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology, Alexandria, VA, United States Justin Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology, Alexandria, VA, United States Houtmeyers K.A.Redingenhof Leuven, Leuven, Belgium Coaches Geraldine Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology, Alexandria, VA, United States Geraldine Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology, Alexandria, VA, United States Vandamme K.A.Redingenhof Leuven, Leuven, Belgium Want to build a ThinkQuest site? The ThinkQuest site above is one of thousands of educational web sites built by students from around the world. Click here to learn how you can build a ThinkQuest site.

66. ADW: Melursus Ursinus: Information Habitat. sloth bears live mainly in tropical areas. They sloth bearshave a shaggy black coat, especially over the shoulders. Brown http://animaldiversity.ummz.umich.edu/site/accounts/information/Melursus_ursinus

Overview News Conditions of Use ADW Staff ... Home Kingdom Animalia Phylum Chordata Subphylum Vertebrata Class Mammalia Order Carnivora Family Ursidae Subfamily Ursinae Species Melursus ursinus Melursus ursinus (sloth bear) Information Pictures Specimens Classification editLink('skunkworks/.accounts/180bb790-5fde-4c27-8931-b40c5ea7ed0c') 2004/05/18 13:25:05.263 GMT-4 By LeeAnn Bies Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Chordata Subphylum: Vertebrata Class: Mammalia Order: Carnivora Family: Ursidae Subfamily: Ursinae Genus: Melursus Species: Melursus ursinus Geographic Range Melursus ursinus is found throughout India, Sri Lanka, and further north into Bangladesh, Nepal, and Bhutan. This species was fairly common in India and Sri Lanka until as recently as 20 years ago, now they are harder to find (Ward and Kynaston, 1995). Biogeographic Regions: oriental native Habitat Sloth bears live mainly in tropical areas. They can be found in forested areas and grasslands. They are more frequently found at lower elevations and seem to prefer drier forests and areas with rocky outcrops (Ward and Kynaston, 1995; IBA, 1999). These animals are found in the following types of habitat: tropical Terrestrial Biomes: forest scrub forest Physical Description Mass 55 to 140 kg (121 to 308 lbs) Length 1.50 to 1.90 m

67. A Day At The Zoo - Bears There are 8 different kinds of bears brown bears, American black bears, polarbears, giant panda bears, Asiatic black bears, sloth bears, spectacled bears http://userpages.umbc.edu/~jnale1/bears.html

Main Page Zoo Story Zoo Map Reptile ... Safari Bears Primates Table of Animals BEARS... Bears are large animals with thick, strong legs. They have big heads, little eyes and small round ears. All bears are covered with heavy fur. Bears can see and hear like us, have a very good sense of smell, and can stand on their hind legs to smell and see better. Bears are smart and curious animals. There are 8 different kinds of bears - brown bears, American black bears, polar bears, giant panda bears, Asiatic black bears, sloth bears, spectacled bears and sun bears. Brown bears are also called grizzly bears. They live in all parts of the world, except Africa, Australia and Antarctica. The bears you will see in "A Day At The Zoo" are the black bear, brown bear, koala bear, panda bear, and polar bear. To see the bears in the zoo click on their name below. Black Bear Brown Bear Koala Bear Panda Bear ... Polar Bear Visit the other sections of the zoo: Reptile Safari Primates

68. Sloth Bear PEOPLE AND sloth bears Historically Due to increasing human population andencroachment for housing and farming, sloth bears and their habitat are http://arktofile.net/pages/bear_sloth.html

Sloth bear Latin Names: Mlursus Ursinus Subfamily: Ursinae, Ursus Ursinus Meyer, 1793. OTHER NAMES: Aswail, Baloo (Kipling), Honey, Jungle Joker, Lip Bear. CHARACTERISTICS: SIZE: Adult sloth bears usually weigh about 300 pounds, females being somewhat smaller than the males. They are usually 3 feet high at the shoulder and about 6 feet long. Sloth bears are 150 to 190 centimeters (60 to 75 inches) long. Males weigh 80 to 140 kilograms (175 to 310 pounds), and females weigh 55 to 95 kilograms (120 to 210 pounds). Birth weight averages 10 to 17 ounces HABITAT: Sloth bears are found in forested areas and in grasslands, predominantly at lower elevations. They apparently favor drier forests and have been reported to prefer areas with rocky outcrops. Sloth bears like warm, humid forests near the equator. They can live in a wide variety of forest types from dry thorn forests in the north to wet tropical forests in the south DISTRIBUTION: Most sloth bears are found in India and Sri Lanka, South Asia but they have also been reported from Bangladesh, Nepal, and Bhutan. REPRODUCTION: For a long time sloth bears were confused with another tropical animal called a sloth. These shaggy, docile bears have a unique appearance and some interesting adaptations. Unlike their North American relatives, sloth bears live together in groups where the male is part of the cubs' upbringing.

69. Bear Information: Bear Facts And Statistics There are eight different species of bear brown bears, American black bears, giantpanda bears, sloth bears, polar bears, Asiatic black bears, sun bears and http://wild.stormpages.com/bears/info.htm

Brown Bear - Ursus Arctos There are eight different species of bear: brown bears, American black bears, giant panda bears, sloth bears, polar bears, Asiatic black bears, sun bears and spectacled bears. The following information will focus on the brown bears, which are also called Grizzly or Kodiak bears. Brown bears are of various size and color from region to region. The grizzled coats of the brown bears living in the western portion of the United States gave them the name "Grizzly". The so-named Kodiak bears from the northwestern part of North America are the largest of the brown bears. Brown bears can be easily distinguished from the black bears they often live among by their upturned snouts, humped shoulders, smaller ears and longer fur and claws. The male brown bear grows larger than the female, growing as much as five feet high when standing on all fours. However, when standing on two legs, a brown bear can tower up to nine feet high and large males can be close to one thousand pounds. Although they usually lope around slowly, a charging brown bear can reach a surprising speed of 30 miles per hour if threatened. Brown bears are solitary animals when they are not raising cubs and they will travel a great distance for food. The exception is in areas where food is concentrated and can be easily attained, such as a stream where fish are spawning. In these cases, bears will often feast side-by-side. Brown bears depend much more upon their sense of smell than their hearing or sight to locate food or survey their surroundings. During the coldest months, brown bears will sleep for long periods inside caves, hollows or even dead trees, emerging once again when the weather turns warm. This is called hibernation and its purpose is to conserve energy during a time when the bear would be least able to find food or keep warm.

70. Bears Week The sloth bear is unusual among bears because, rather than seeking out a solitaryexistence, it appears to enjoy and seek out the company of other bears. http://exn.ca/bears/bears.cfm?Show=World&WorldBear=58

71. Lesson Tutor :Theme Of The Week: Bears K-6 Unit Study There is a picture here Spectacled bear, so look for yourself. 7. sloth bears (Melursus ursinus) - This bear s favorite snack is termites. Yum! http://www.lessontutor.com/belm15.html

You are HERE >> Cross Curriculum Unit Study Target Audience : Students age Theme of the Week: Lions and Tigers and BEARS - OH MY! A unit study on bears for grades K-6th by Belinda Mooney October 31, 2000 rev. Jan. 2002, Mar. 2003. JM AMAZON PRODUCTS G rowl! : A Book About Bears (Hello Reader!, Science. Level 3) by Melvin Berger Good Night, Bear (Troll First-Start... Bears (Animal World) Giant Pandas : Gifts from China (Rookie... What Polar Bears Can and Cannot Do (A Viking Science Easy To-Read, Level 2) by Harriet Ziefert, Emily Bolam (Illustrator), Lisa Flather (Illustrator) From our favorite teddy bear to Smokey the Bear, everyone loves bears! In this unit study we will learn more about them. What they eat where they live and how they do what they do. We will read about bears, draw some bears, maybe do some bear crafts and maybe even have a Teddy bear Picnic! All bears have certain things in common. They are big and furry. They have live babies called cubs, which they nurse. They have very powerful legs. They eat a variety of things from nuts and berries to bugs and fish. They all belong to this family: kingdom - Animalia phylum - Chordata class - Mammalia order - Carnivora family - Ursidae (the Latin word for bear) How many different kinds of bears are there and what makes each kind special? There are 8 different species of bears. Below you'll will find the different species listed. Click in the links to find all the facts and information about the bear you are interested in.

72. Where We Learned About Bears book has great pictures and facts about all kinds of bears brown bears, black bears,Asiatic black bears, polar bears, sun bears, sloth bears, spectacled bears http://www.edu.pe.ca/donagh/bears/lernbrs.htm

Where We Learned About Bears We really enjoyed Frank Asch's books about bears. They had a simple story with a beginning, middle, and an end. Bear always had a problem to solve or a lesson to learn! The illustrations of the Bear made him seem unique. He was illustrated using solid colors and outlined in other colors. These are the books that we read. How many books have you read? For more information about Frank Asch click on his name and visit his website. Here you will find fun stuff for teachers, readers, games, and an interview with Frank Asch. Have you ever lost anything? If so, you will love this book by Jules Feiffer. It is about a little girl who always loses her things. One day she lost her bear. Her family gave her all kinds of advice on how to find it. She is really sad because no one will help her. Did she find her bear? Well, you will have to read this book to find out. NonFiction Books The Real Bears This book has great pictures and facts about all kinds of bears: brown bears, black bears, Asiatic black bears, polar bears, sun bears, sloth bears, spectacled bears, and panda bears. One picture even shows a polar bear trying to get into a school bus! The glossary and the index helped us find our information faster. Nature's Wild: Bears by Donald Olsen. Advance Publishers

73. Untitled Document SCIENTIFIC NAME Melursus ursinus. POPULATION IN INDIA sloth bears are endemicto the Indian subcontinent, with most of them living in India and Sri Lanka. http://www.acapworldwide.com/bear.html

SCIENTIFIC NAME: Melursus ursinus POPULATION IN INDIA: Sloth bears are endemic to the Indian subcontinent, with most of them living in India and Sri Lanka. India is estimated to be home to around 10,000 to 15,000 sloth bears. DESCRIPTION AND SPECIAL FEATURES: Sloth bears are stocky with long, shaggy, black hair and a white U- or Y-shaped marking on the chest. They have large lips, a long tongue, a pale muzzle and well-developed hook-like claws that enable them to climb trees and dig for termites. Sloth bears feed extensively on termites and have special adaptations for doing this: The naked lips are capable of protruding, and the inner pair of upper incisors are missing, which forms a gap through which termites can be sucked. The sucking noises made by feeding in this manner can apparently be heard from over 100 meters (330 feet) away. They are able to close their nostrils voluntarily to create a vacuum, and their mobile lips enable them to scoop up their prey. Sometimes, they ingest dirt with their food that often leads to bad teeth, as it grinds away the enamel. It is thought that the reduced hair on the muzzle may be an adaptation for coping with the defensive secretions of termites.

74. Monthly Features, May 2000 Bookstore National Wildlife chapters to this book that include species accounts of brown (grizzly) bears, blackbears, polar bears, panda bears, Asian black bears, sloth bears, sun bears http://www.nwf.org/bookstore/review00june.html

75. Glasgow Zoo - Powered By VBulletin Asiatic black bears Selenarctos thibetanus and American black bears Ursus americanusare also rather common, while only a few sloth bears and spectacled bears http://www.glasgowzoo.co.uk/articles/carnivores/conferencebears3.php

Menu Home Information Forums Photo Gallery ... Back to Conference Index EUROPEAN COORDINATION OF BEARS Drs. Koen Brouwer, National Foundation for Research in Zoological Gardens/ EEP Executive Office, c/o Amsterdam Zoo, P.O. Box 20164, 1000 HD Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Introduction A European Endangered Species Programme (EEP) was initiated for the spectacled bear Tremarctos ornatus several years ago; this programme is co-ordinated by Bryan Carroll of the Jersey Wildlife Preservation Trust. Two years ago it was also decided to establish an EEP-programme for the sloth bear Melursus ursinus . Dick Dekker of Amsterdam Zoo was appointed as co-ordinator for this species and the National Foundation for Research in Zoological Gardens (NFRZG) is providing him assistance in organising and managing this breeding programme. The spectacled bear and the sloth bear populations in Europe suffer from the same problem: their numbers are too low for a successful breeding programme. Co-ordinators of both programmes therefore may have to expand the number of animal spaces in European zoos used for their species. Consequently, the two species could become "

76. Free The Bears Fund Inc, Free The Bears Fund Inc Free The bears Fund in Australia and International Animal Rescue (IAR) in Englandhave been solely responsible for the dancing sloth bears release .. http://www.freethebears.org.au/

Welcome to Free The Bears Fund Inc The Free The Bears Fund Inc mission is “To protect, preserve and enrich the lives of bears throughout the world”. We do this by raising money through donations, charity auctions, merchandising, and bear sponsorship. It is worth noting that the ABSOLUTE majority of all funds raised goes directly to fund our projects. OUR VISION: TO UNLOCK THE CAGE OF DARKNESS There is a bear in a small cage. Feel his confusion, sadness and despair. There are people who live in a country with no welfare system, the only food, shelter and income that which they provide for themselves. These people too are in a cage: a cage constructed from poverty. Share their misery and hopelessness. Mrs Mary Hutton, Founder of the Fund with Serey - an infant Sun Bear There are people thousands of miles away who feel anger and despair when they think of captive bears, and the countries that exploit their wildlife. Counter productive feelings that slowly form into the bars of a cage, which holds both heart, and mind prisoner. In a small area in Asia people work to save bears. Once poachers, they have been given the opportunity to protect the very animals they once sought to capture. Such projects radiate hope for the future: hope for sustainability of both wildlife and community alike. Hope, which allows us to escape that first cage: that of mental despair.

77. Sri Lankan Sloth Bear Even if sloth bears are reintroduced to this National Park, it seems doubtful whetherthey would survive, given the Park s poor habitat quality at present. http://www.lankalibrary.com/wlife/slothbear.htm

Sri Lankan Sloth Bear @ WWW Virtual Library Sri Lanka (Lakshman Nadaraja; @http://www.lankachronicle.com) The sloth bear (Ursus ursinus), formerly found in most dry zone low country jungles, is now confined to pockets of relatively undisturbed forest. It seems that with encroachment and the general disturbance of our forests, the sloth bear is among the first animals to disappear. Unfortunately, we have very little scientific data on the sloth bear in Sri Lanka. Its population dynamics, breeding patterns, feeding requirements, range, size, etc., are all largely unknown. It the species is to continue to survive in Sri Lanka, we desperately need to protect quality habitats and undertake the scientific study these magnificent bears. The fun on the female bear is usually thicker than on the males. She has a dense tuft of hair between her shoulders, which makes it easy for the cub, who travels on her back, to hold on. This particular cub would climb up her rear leg and down her foreleg, tail first, while she moved around grubbing. The mother bear and cub were passing under a stand of palu trees and feeding on the fallen fruit. Then, the female climbed the tree, closely followed by her cub. They both fed on the ripe palu, the bear cub adeptly picking the fruit himself, for about half an hour. Then they backed down the tree and ambled into the scrub.

78. James Warwick : Natural History Photographer Ranthambhore National Park, India. Like most bears, sloth bears are omnivorousfeeding mainly on fruit and insects but also honey and sometimes carrion. http://jameswarwick.bn2web.com/gallery/india/Sloth-bear.html

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79. HeraldNet - Snohomish County's Online News Source that s her choice. . sloth bears diet tends toward insects. The combination said. The sucking noise is unique to sloth bears. When http://www.heraldnet.com/ae/story.cfm?sectionname=FAMILY FUN&file=04041618467639

80. Sloth Bear Trapping, Killing Continues continues. HOME. January 18, 2004 (Agra) sloth bears are an endangeredspecies and are supposed to be protected under the Wildlife Act. http://www.indianjungles.com/240104b.htm

Sloth bear trapping, killing continues HOME January 18, 2004 (Agra): Sloth bears are an endangered species and are supposed to be protected under the Wildlife Act. But their killing and trade still continues across the country. Many of these animals hardly even live long enough to become adults. On Saturday, police in Agra rescued five sloth bear cubs. They are barely a few weeks' old and were rescued from a village near Agra in a raid conducted by the Agra Forest Department and the police. "We got a tip off that near Fatehpur Sikri, in Keri village, these bears had been brought illegally," said Vinay Kumar Yadav, SP, Agra. Caught in Orissa The trappers who caught them in Orissa must have killed their mothers as sloth bears are fiercely protective mothers and never abandon their cubs. Sloth bears dead or alive are worth tens of thousands of dollars in the illegal wildlife trade market. From places like Orissa, bear body parts like bones and bear bile is transported through Bengal to Nepal or Bangladesh into China and other eastern countries. If these cubs had not been rescued they would have started training in another four weeks to become the dancing bears displayed by the kalanders to tourists.

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