Sloth bears are the world's deadliest bear. As their habitat shrinks, India's forest communities are finding ways to co-exist ...

Three farm workers, all women, were injured — one of them seriously — in a sloth bear attack at a farm near the Western Ghats, west of Puliyangudi, in Tenkasi district on Thursday (August 7, 2025) ...

Chandrapur: Arun Kukse, the 65-year-old man who was attacked by a sloth bear at Junona on Saturday evening, succumbed to his ...

A man and his son were injured in a sloth bear attack in a forest area in Chandrapur district of Maharashtra, a senior forest officer said on Sunday. Villagers accompanying the duo attacked the sloth ...

While sloth bear encounters with people are relatively common, fatal attacks are not, and an expert told CBS News on Friday that it would be "very unusual" for the animals to feed on human flesh.

Sloth bears, often called the most dangerous bear species, are responsible for more attacks on humans than tigers, lions, wolves, and even other bears in India, Nepal, and Sri Lanka. Despite feeding ...

Sloth bears are the world's deadliest bear. As their habitat shrinks, India's forest communities are finding ways to co-exist with them.

Attacks are increasing as human activity increasingly impinges on the bears' home territories and 13.7% of sloth bear attacks result in death, said the study.

A sloth bear said to have injured six people residing between Bannerghatta National Park and the town of Attibele in India last week is now believed to have returned to its natural habitat, or at ...