Indian Sloth Bear

This was taken near Mysore, Karnataka, India

comments (5)

AvinashKrishnan

Snow Leopard

Nicely Captured. I tried the same in Bannerghatta National Park, but couldn't capture with so much clarity. Posted 11 years ago, modified 11 years ago
1. Sunil R Agadi
  
  Lion
  
  Thanks Avinash, But this is not taken in Bannerghatta, Its taken in Mysore 2 years back. Posted 11 years ago

Rakesh Agadi

Green Fly

Such a huge bhaalu..(bear) !! OMG. Aren't you scared. ? Posted 11 years ago

Joost Thissen

Lion

Before I didn't know there where bears in India, and I didn't know that there is a bear specie which lives at night and eats insects. Still sounds strange to me that a mighty bear is an nocturnal insect eater.
I learned a lot by your photo/post. Thanks Sunil! Posted 11 years ago
1. Sunil R Agadi
  
  Lion
  
  Thanks alot Joost, I'm satified that the snaps that I uploaded gives a good information of the specie. Posted 11 years ago

The Sloth bear

The sloth bear is a nocturnal insectivorous species of bears found wild within the Indian Subcontinent. The sloth bear evolved from ancestral brown bears during the Pleistocene and shares features found in insect-eating mammals through convergent evolution. The population isolated in Sri Lanka is considered as a subspecies.

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Similar species: Carnivorans

Species identified by Sunil R Agadi

By Sunil R Agadi

Attribution

Uploaded Nov 26, 2013. Captured Jan 15, 2012 14:43 in Siddhartha Nagar, Lakshmipuram, Mysuru, Karnataka, India.

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Canon PowerShot S5 IS
f/4.0
1/318s
ISO80
48.6mm

Captured in the winter. More winter photos.