VMD 512: Zoo/Wild Animal Breeding, Management, Nutrition and Health Care (1+1)

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• The bears have a compact body with a short neck and quadrupedal gait. However, they are capable of standing like human and are prone for stereotypical behavior if left uncared or bored.
• These animals are exploited in circuses, wristle events etc. Bears are exceedingly dangerous in nature. Bears are usually solitary in nature.

Important species of bears 

• Sloth bear (Melursus ursinus)
• Asiatic bear (Selenarctos thibetanus)
• Spectacled bear (Tremarctos arnatus)
• Malayan sun bear (Helarctos malayanus)
• Polar bear (Thalarctos maritimus)
• Alaskan brown bear (Ursus arctos)
• American black bear (Ursus americanus)

Beas in india

• Sloth bears are endemic to India. Found through out the country in the forested regions.
• The outcrops of rocks or tumbled boulders offer them shelter during the hot season.
• Sloth bears tolerates the presence of spotted deer in close proximity but the response may reveal variations with other species.
• Various types of vocalizations are reported in these animals. Big head and rounded ear lobes are present. The paws are short and broad.
• Brown bears are present in north-western and central Himalayas. Himalayan black bear are present in Kashmir, Assam and Himalayas.