LOVE FOR ALL BEARS

Here are all eight species of bear. Spectacled Bear, Polar Bear, Moon (or Asiatic Black) Bear, Brown Bear, Sloth Bear, Sun Bear, American Black Bear, and the Giant Panda.

The Bear Trust website is great and features facts about each species. Click on the species of bear you’d like to know more about and the link shall direct you to the relevant page.

A sloth bear in the sitting position. Sloth bears can be found in India, Nepal and Sri Lanka. Their primary source of food is the termite mound; it digs into the nest and noisily sucks up the termites.
Vets at Chessington Zoo tend to a baby sloth bear suffering from a skin infection behind one of its ears. Surrey, England, 1951.