Jaipur: An elderly man was killed in a sloth bear attack in Thoriyan village of Rajsamand district Saturday after stepping ...

Wilpattu National Park, Sri Lanka’s largest and a prime location for year-round sloth bear sightings, has sparked concern after the sudden deaths of three sloth bears (Melursus ursinus inornatus ...

NILGIRIS: A five-year-old male sloth bear was fatally electrocuted after it came in contact with an overhead power cable at a tea garden in Nonsuch near Coonoor on Thursday night. The animal got ...

"Sloth bears kill or maim more people per year than any other type of bear," the San Diego Zoo writes. "This is largely due to the fact that they live in an area where there are lots of people.