#melursus ursinus

[fridaybear]

It's Friday. You need a sloth bear in your life. Make this day, and this weekend, something great. - - - - - - - - - - - "Sloth Bear playing - San Diego Zoo, Balboa Park, San Diego, California, USA" by Glen Bowman is licensed under CC BY 2.0.

[inbarfink]

[snototter]

Sakar, a sloth bear (Melursus ursinus) at the Cleveland Zoo, Ohio, USA

by ucumari photography

[wonder-rooms]

Sloth Bear, Our Living World, Vol. I (1885) - Rev. J.G. Wood

*Digitally restored by Molly Wilders, from scans uploaded to Biodiversity Heritage Library

[tiifu-ndovu]

[antiqueanimals]

Sloth bear (Melursus ursinus)

A Natural History of British and Foreign Quadrupeds. Written by James H. Fennell. 1843.

Internet Archive

[asterwild]

Sloth bear, Melursus ursinus

[thatwobblychair]

CoD Baddies as Bears!

What if the bad guys were also bears! Part 3

See part 2 and 1 for 141 and good guys as bears

Even more bear facts because bears are love, bears are life. 🐻🐻‍❄️🧬

Makarov: Ussuri Brown Bear "Russian Grizzly Bear"

Ursus arctos lasiotus

Also known as the Ezo Brown bear or Black Grizzly bear, this subspecies of Eurasian Brown Bear is one of the largest, with some individuals approaching the Kodiak Bear in size.

Similar to the Kamchatka Brown Bear, it differs with an elongated skull, longer nasal bones, elevated forehead and is darker in colour with some individuals being pure black.

Siberian (Amur) tigers and other bears are it's only natural predators, with documented tiger and bear interspecific competitions. Ussuri brown bears will often scavenge tiger kills and or kill smaller tigers, while Tigers are known to hunt young and sub-adult bears (bears making a significant portion of their diet).

Graves: Louisiana Black Bear

Ursus americanus luteolus

A subspecies* of the American Black Bear (U. a. americanus), the Louisiana Black Bear has been historically found in Louisiana, Mississippi, East Texas and Arkansas.

It is not substantially different from the American Black Bear, though it has a longer, flatter, narrower skull and larger molars in comparison. It's colouration is typically black, though some individuals have been known to be brown/red-brown cinnamon. It is Louisiana's official state mammal.

*The validity of this subspecies has been repeatedly debated.

Valeria: Sloth Bear "Indian Bear"

Melursus ursinus

A native species to the Indian Subcontinent, this medium sized bear feeds on ants, termites and fruit. It is also called the "labiated bear" due to its long lower lip and palate which is used to eat insects.

It's fur is pure black aside from the white "Y" or "V" patch on its chest though this can be absent in some individuals. They are similar in size with the Asian Black Bear though distinguished with it's shaggy mane, white 'sickle' claws, and rangier build.

This species is the most aggressive to humans with the largest number of recorded attacks due to a combination of close human cohabitation and a theorised predisposition to aggressive behaviour from constant attacks by tigers, leopards, rhinos and elephants.

Captain Williamson in his Oriental Field Sports (1819) wrote of how sloth bears rarely killed their human victims outright, but would suck and chew on their limbs till they were reduced to bloody pulps.

They are not known to be man eaters despite attacking humans. One individual in Mysore (Mysuru), India was recorded to have killed at least 12 people and mutilated 24 before it's death in 1957.

Shepherd: Koala "Koala Bear"**

Phascolarctos cinereus

**not a bear

An arboreal marsupial native to Australia that feeds primarily on Eucalyptus leaves. Koalas are asocial with bonding only taking place between mothers and dependant offspring. They are largely sedentary and will sleep upwards to 20 hours a day.

The word "koala" came from the Dharug word "gula" - no water. The 'u' sound was originally written phonetically as 'oo' and then became 'oa'. The three syllable pronunciation may be erroneous as a result.

White settlers adopted the 'koala' indigenous loan word in reference to the animal, where it was also referred to as, the "native bear", or the "koala bear" due to its supposed bear-ish resemblance.

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Info from Wikipedia. Please let me know if I screwed up somewhere. 🐻

[arthistoryanimalia]

Today is also #WorldSlothBearDay!

“The ursine sloth, or sloth bear. In the gardens of the Zoological Society.”

19th c. colored etching by W. Panorma (1796-1867) after W. Berthoud.

Wellcome Collection

🚨The Sloth Bear (Melursus ursinus) is a #ThreatenedSpecies (current IUCN status: Vulnerable).

[mutant-distraction]

Sri Lankan Sloth Bear

(Melursus ursus ursinus)

Wilpathu National Park, Sri Lanka 🇱🇰

Author Vajira Gunasekera 📷

[spinus-pinus]

Sloth Bear Melursus ursinus

5/6/2023 San Diego Zoo, California

[fridaybear]

It is Feels Fabulous Friday! Treat yourself. Y'all made it to the best day of the week.

Make your weekend amazing. Lift each other up. Thanks for hanging out with us. 🤎 - - - - - - - - - - -

"Sloth bear" by Scorius is licensed under CC BY 2.0.

[terry-the-insane]

Animal of the day for October 28: Sloth Bear (Species Melursus ursinus)

Despite being named for being lazy, the Sloth Bear is statistically the most dangerous bear in the world. Sloth Bears are not necessarily aggressive, but since they share their habitat with tigers (who sometimes eat bears) they are very paranoid, and usually choose fight over flight which is why it's best to admire them from a distance.

[peniswizard69]

Of the eight species of bears, only three species are found in more than five countries, and only two are found in more than eight

The top two are both found in more than double that, with the moon bear in eighteen countries and brown bear in thirty seven

Giant panda (Ailuropoda melanoleuca): China (1)

Black bear (Ursus anericanus): Canada, the US, and Mexico (3)

Polar bear (Ursus maritimus): Greenland, Canada, the US, and Russia (4)

Sloth bear (Melursus ursinus): Sri Lanka, India, Nepal, and Bangladesh (4)

Spectacled bear (Tremarctos ornatus): Colombia, Venezuela, Ecuador, Peru, and Bolivia (5)

Sun bear (Helarctos malayanus): India, Bangladesh, Burma, Thailand, Laos, Kambodia, Vietnam, Indonesia, and Malaysia (8)

Moon bear (Ursus thibetanus): Iran, Afghanistan, Pakistan, India, Nepal, Bhutan, Bangladesh, Burma, Thailand, Laos, Kambodia, Vietnam, Taiwan, China, Russia, North Korea, South Korea, and Japan (18)

Brown bear (Ursus arctos): Spain, France, Italy, Austria, Slovenia, Croatia, Greece, Bulgaria, Romania, Ukraine, Slovakia, Belarus, Latvia, Lithuania, Sweden, Norway, Finland, Russia, Georgia, Azerbaijan, Armenia, Iraq, Iran, Turkmenistan, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Kirjizstan, Tajikistan, Afghanistan, Pakistan, India, Nepal, Bhutan, China, Mongolia, North Korea, and Japan (37)

[beardedmrbean]

Mowgli was such a little shit for ditching his wolf family to go fuck around in the jungle.

Don't know that I'll ever understand Rudyard Kippling's ability to fly under everyone's radar in terms of racism but Dr. Seuss gets canceled because the guy drew propaganda for the US during WW2.

I have nothing against either one, much like Twain the things in question are very much a product of their time and shouldn't be subjected to 21st century standards, but the dude wrote a whole thing called "White Man's Burden" to try to inspire American Imperialism to go to the Philippines and bring civilization to the people there.

Commented several times about how similar it is to the woke white people trying to explain to various minorities who don't agree with their agenda that they know better than them and as white people of privilege they will lead the way so they may at last achieve the equality they deserve.

Yes this is Breitbart, shut up there's video so there's not really any way to lie.

This was 100% not what you were looking for I'm sure, sorry bout that, you triggered one of my pet peeves.

And yes he was a little bitch, but to be fair if I could hang out with Baloo and nap on a fat Melursus ursinus (sloth bear) tummy it would be tough to resist.

[tiifu-ndovu]

Confrontation