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Temporal range: Late Pliocene to Early Pleistocene – recent

Standing Melursus ursinus
Conservation status

Vulnerable (IUCN 3.1)[1]
CITES Appendix I (CITES)[1]
Scientific classificationEdit this classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Chordata
Class:
Mammalia
Order:
Carnivora
Suborder:
Caniformia
Family:
Ursidae
Subfamily:
Ursinae
Genus:
Melursus
Meyer, 1793
Species:
M. ursinus
Binomial name
Melursus ursinus
(Shaw, 1791)

Sloth bear range
(black – former, green – extant)
Synonyms
Bradypus ursinus Shaw, 1791
Melursus lybius Meyer, 1793
It has also been called "labiated bear" because of its long lower lip and palate used for sucking up insects.[2] It has long, shaggy fur, a mane around the face, and long, sickle-shaped claws. It is lankier than brown and Asian black bears. It shares features of insectivorous mammals and evolved during the Pleistocene from the ancestral brown bear through divergent evolution.

Sloth 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 pets.[3]

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