Where Does The Sloth Bear Live. Human expansion has reduced some of their former range in southwestern and northern india. Emitting noisy grunts and snorts it wanders alone usually at night in search of.
Sloth bear shaggy dusty and unkempt the reclusive sloth bear makes its home in the forests of south asia. Sloth bears inhabit parts of india sri lanka bhutan and nepal. Human expansion has reduced some of their former range in southwestern and northern india.
It has a long shaggy fur a mane around the face.
It has also been called labiated bear because of its long lower lip and palate used for sucking up insects. The sloth bear is mainly found in india sri lanka nepal bhutan and bangladesh. The sloth bear melursus ursinus is a myrmecophagous bear species native to the indian subcontinent it feeds on fruits ants and termites it is listed as vulnerable on the iucn red list mainly because of habitat loss and degradation. Sloth bears inhabit parts of india sri lanka bhutan and nepal.