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Chapters: Brown Bear, Polar Bear, American Black Bear, Grizzly Bear, Asian Black Bear, Kodiak Bear, Sloth Bear, Bear Attacks, Ursari, List of Fictional Bears, Cave Bear, Sankebetsu Brown Bear Incident, Bear Hunting, Bear-Baiting, Bear Worship, Grizzly Man, Ursid Hybrid, Formosan Black Bear, Ussuri Brown Bear, Grizzly-polar Bear Hybrid, Cantabrian Brown Bear, Arctodus Simus, Eurasian Brown Bear, Spectacled Bear, Sun Bear, Bear Danger, Bear-Resistant Food Storage Container, Florida Black Bear, Old Ephraim, Himalayan Brown Bear, Bear Conservation, Kamchatka Brown Bear, Mexican Grizzly Bear, Kermode Bear, Ursinae, List of Bears, Tibetan Blue Bear, Syrian Brown Bear, Atlas Bear, Macfarlane's Bear, East Siberian Brown Bear, Ursus, Project Grizzly, Ursus Etruscus, Tremarctos Floridanus, Indarctos, Bears in Anchorage, Alaska, Tame Bear, Ursavus, Ailuropoda, Bergman's Bear, Tremarctinae, Marsican Brown Bear, Plionarctos, Ursus Deningeri, Sri Lankan Sloth Bear, Ursus Minimus, Amphicynodon, Parictis, Golden Bear, Bears in Heraldry, Spirit Bear: the Simon Jackson Story, Cinnamon Bear, Tremarctini, Ursavus Elmensis, Bear Pit, Ursus Americanus Carlottae, Peijainen, Ursus Americanus Hamiltoni, Ursavini, Gobi Bear, Ailurarctos. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 410. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Ursus eogroenlandicusUrsus groenlandicusUrsus jenaensisUrsus labradorensisUrsus marinusUrsus polarisUrsus spitzbergensisUrsus ungavensisThalarctos maritimus The polar bear (Ursus maritimus) is a bear native largely within the Arctic circle encompassing the Arctic Ocean, its surrounding seas and surrounding land masses. It is the world's largest land carnivore and also the largest bear, together with the omnivorous Kodiak bear, which is approximately the same size. An adult male weighs around 350680 kg (77...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=24408 ... Read more

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Title: Bear care.(ASIA)(saving the sloth bears of India)(Brief article)
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Publication: Earth Island Journal (Magazine/Journal)
Date: March 22, 2010
Publisher: Earth Island Institute
Volume: 25Issue: 1Page: 5(2)

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Chapters: National Parks in Gujarat, Wildlife Sanctuaries in Gujarat, Narayan Sarovar Sanctuary, Jessore Sloth Bear Sanctuary, Gir Forest National Park, Kutch Bustard Sanctuary, Chari-Dhand Wetland Conservation Reserve, Kutch Desert Wildlife Sanctuary, Indian Wild Ass Sanctuary, Hingolgadh Nature Education Sanctuary, Blackbuck National Park, Velavadar, List of National Parks and Wildlife Sanctuaries of Gujarat, India, Nal Sarovar Bird Sanctuary, Marine National Park, Gulf of Kutch, Indroda Dinosaur and Fossil Park, Vansda National Park, Thol Wildlife Sanctuary. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 68. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Narayan Sarovar Sanctuary -The sanctuary was first notified in 1981 covering an area of 765.79 square kilometres (295.67 sq mi). In 1992, the Gujarat state government's department of mining and geology pointed out that there were huge deposits of limestone, lignite (brown coal), bentonite and bauxite inside the protected area of the sanctuary and argued that the ban on mining in the sanctuary was holding back development of the local economy. An order dated July 27, 1993 of the Gujarat State Government initially de-notified the Sanctuary, by annulling the earlier notification of 1981 under which Narayan Sarovar had been declared a wildlife sanctuary. It issued a decree which abolished the original sanctuary and established a new one, consisting of 16 disjointed patches. This de-notification had reduced the area of the sanctuary from765.79 square kilometres (295.67 sq mi) to disjointed ribbons of land totaling only 94.87 square kilometres (36.63 sq mi) in favor of commercial mining interests. The commercially biased court order reduced the area to a mere one-eighth of the original size, with a comment that the area was substantially in excess of the req...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=25700774 ... Read more

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Out of the total 8 species of bears, four species namely the sloth bear, the Asiatic black bear, the Himalayan brown bear and the Malayan sun bear exist in India. In India, the sloth bear is one of themost widely distributed large mammals. Due to the continuous degradation and fragmentation of the habitat the status of sloth bears is critical in its range and leading to more conflicting situation. Sizeable populations of sloth bear exist outside the protected areas. In Central India sloth bear habitats are interspersed by villages with high human and cattle population and agricultural crop fields. Presence of bears or their dens close to the human habitation is quite unusual and indicates the forced use of degraded habitat by the bears. The inhabitants are poor tribal or other villagers who suffer from both economic loss of crops and human mauling and killing by sloth bear. In order to resolve the conflicts and plan a conservation action plan, this study on the ecology of sloth bear and human-bear conflicts was conducted in Chhattisgarh. The outcome of the study should be useful for the students, researchers, managers and conservationist across the world. ... Read more

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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Sloth Bear, also known as the Labiated Bear, is an arboreal, nocturnal and insectivorous species of bear restricted to the Indian subcontinent.Originally, naturalists considered the sloth bear to be a species of sloth rather than a true bear. Because of this, the species has been renamed numerous times. After a sloth bear was taken to Europe for the first time in 1790, it was given the binomial name Bradypus pentadactylus, as well as the conventional names of "five fingered sloth", "sloth bear" and "ursine sloth". Meyer named the genus "melursus", while Fischer called it "chondrorychus". Shaw called it "Bradypus ursinus", while M. Blainville called it Ursus labiatus while Tiedemann called it Ursus longirostris. ... Read more

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Chapters: Narayan Sarovar Sanctuary, Jessore Sloth Bear Sanctuary, Kutch Bustard Sanctuary, Kutch Desert Wildlife Sanctuary, Indian Wild Ass Sanctuary, Hingolgadh Nature Education Sanctuary, List of National Parks and Wildlife Sanctuaries of Gujarat, India, Nal Sarovar Bird Sanctuary, Thol Wildlife Sanctuary. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 51. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Narayan Sarovar Sanctuary -The sanctuary was first notified in 1981 covering an area of 765.79 square kilometres (295.67 sq mi). In 1992, the Gujarat state government's department of mining and geology pointed out that there were huge deposits of limestone, lignite (brown coal), bentonite and bauxite inside the protected area of the sanctuary and argued that the ban on mining in the sanctuary was holding back development of the local economy. An order dated July 27, 1993 of the Gujarat State Government initially de-notified the Sanctuary, by annulling the earlier notification of 1981 under which Narayan Sarovar had been declared a wildlife sanctuary. It issued a decree which abolished the original sanctuary and established a new one, consisting of 16 disjointed patches. This de-notification had reduced the area of the sanctuary from765.79 square kilometres (295.67 sq mi) to disjointed ribbons of land totaling only 94.87 square kilometres (36.63 sq mi) in favor of commercial mining interests. The commercially biased court order reduced the area to a mere one-eighth of the original size, with a comment that the area was substantially in excess of the requirements of a Sanctuary. Following the de-notification, the Gujarat state government planned to grant a lease to a cement company for open-cast mining in 2,000 hectares of land inside the original erstwhile Sanctuary to allow the mining of limestone, ligni...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=25700774 ... Read more

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Chapters: Dugong, Red Slender Loris, Wild Boar, Golden Jackal, Sloth Bear, List of Mammals of Sri Lanka, Indian Muntjac, Asian Palm Civet, List of Endemic Mammals of Sri Lanka, European Otter, Chevrotain, Greater Short-Nosed Fruit Bat, Small Asian Mongoose, Gray Langur, Sri Lankan Leopard, Lesser False Vampire Bat, Sri Lankan Elephant, Rusty-Spotted Cat, Fishing Cat, Indian Palm Squirrel, Gray Slender Loris, Indian Crested Porcupine, Grizzled Giant Squirrel, Indian Gray Mongoose, Lesser Bandicoot Rat, Etruscan Shrew, Golden Palm Civet, Purple-Faced Langur, Toque Macaque, Ruddy Mongoose, Small Indian Civet, Sri Lankan Axis Deer, Stripe-Necked Mongoose, Crocidura Hikmiya, Indian Pangolin, Greater Bandicoot Rat, Dusky Palm Squirrel, Layard's Palm Squirrel, Indian Gerbil, Dusky Leaf-Nosed Bat, Travancore Flying Squirrel, Indian Hare, Kelaart's Long-Clawed Shrew, Indian Bush Rat, Ohiya Rat, Blanford's Rat, Sri Lankan Sambar Deer, Nolthenius's Long-Tailed Climbing Mouse, Pearson's Long-Clawed Shrew, Indian Roundleaf Bat, Mayor's Mouse, Indian Giant Flying Squirrel, Indian Pipistrelle, Felis Chaus Kelaarti, Schneider's Leaf-Nosed Bat, Little Indian Field Mouse, Indian Brown Mongoose, Soft-Furred Rat, Nillu Rat, Ceylon Spiny Mouse, Fulvus Roundleaf Bat, Cantor's Roundleaf Bat, Horsfield's Shrew, Sri Lankan Long-Tailed Shrew, Jungle Shrew, Asiatic Long-Tailed Climbing Mouse, Sri Lankan Shrew. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 254. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: The Golden jackal (Canis aureus) is a medium-sized species of canid which inhabits north and north-eastern Africa, south-eastern and central Europe (up to Austria and Hungary), Asia minor, the Middle East and south east Asia. It is classed by the IUCN as Least Concern, due to its widespread range in areas with optimum food and shel...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=1554274 ... Read more

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Chapters: Aardvark, Aardwolf, Pangolin, Numbat, Sloth Bear, Short-Beaked Echidna, Nine-Banded Armadillo, Giant Anteater, Southern Tamandua, Tree Pangolin, Brazilian Three-Banded Armadillo, Fruitafossor, Silky Anteater, Giant Pangolin, Sunda Pangolin, Pink Fairy Armadillo, Philippine Pangolin, Ground Pangolin, Giant Armadillo, Chinese Pangolin, Eurotamandua, Southern Three-Banded Armadillo, Northern Tamandua, Long-Tailed Pangolin, Indian Pangolin, Eomanis, Southern Naked-Tailed Armadillo, Chacoan Naked-Tailed Armadillo, Northern Naked-Tailed Armadillo, Greater Naked-Tailed Armadillo, Necromanis. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 139. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: The Sloth Bear (Ursus ursinus =Melursus ursinus), also known as the Labiated Bear, is an arboreal, nocturnal and insectivorous species of bear restricted to the Indian subcontinent. Originally, naturalists considered the sloth bear to be a species of sloth rather than a true bear. Because of this, the species has been renamed numerous times. After a sloth bear was taken to Europe for the first time in 1790, it was given the binomial name Bradypus pentadactylus, as well as the conventional names of "five fingered sloth", "sloth bear" and "ursine sloth". Meyer named the genus "melursus", while Fischer called it "chondrorychus". Shaw called it "Bradypus ursinus", while M. Blainville called it Ursus labiatus while Tiedemann called it Ursus longirostris. Sloth bears may have reached their current form in the early Pleistocene, the time when the bear family specialized and dispersed. A fragment of fossilized humerus from the Pleistocene, found in Andhra Pradesh's Kurnool Basin is identical to the modern sloth bear's. The fossilized skulls of a bear once named Melursus theobaldi found in the Shivaliks from the early Pleistocene ...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=399740 ... Read more

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Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Cave Bear, Ground Sloth, Myotragus, American Lion, Arctodus Simus, Cave Hyena, Mylodontidae, Scelidotheriidae, Orophodontidae, Cyprus Dwarf Elephant, Pachycrocuta, Panthera Leo Vereshchagini. Excerpt:American Lion Fossil range: Pleistocene The American lion (Panthera leo atrox) also known as the North American lion or American cave lion , is an extinct feline of the family Felidae , endemic to North America during the Pleistocene epoch (1.8 mya to 11,000 years ago), existing for approximately 1.79 million years. It was one of the largest subspecies of cat ever to have existed, and the largest lion in history, slightly larger than the Late Beginning Pleistocene primitive cave lion, Panthera leo fossilis , and about twenty-five percent larger than the modern African lion . Some estimates of the mass of this animal are as high as 500 kg (1100 pound) . Description Restoration of an American Lion The American lion is an extinct animal which originated in North America and went on to colonize part of South America as part of the Great American Interchange . The body length of the American lion is estimated to have been 3.5 - 4m . Thus it was larger than its close relative, the extinct lion, Panthera leo fossilis , and the modern species of Siberian tiger , but still smaller than their contemporary competitor for prey, the Giant short-faced bear , which was the largest carnivoran of North America at the time. The American lion was longer than any other felid overall and heavier than any modern felids, but it was not as heavily built as the saber-toothed cat Smilodon populator , which may also have weighed up to 500 kg. This would make the American lion the longest of all known felids, and Smilodon populator the heaviest. Approximately one hundred specimens of American lions have been... ... Read more

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