A project engineer and his team of robotics students participated in the First Lego League Challenge, assisting a sloth bear at Tampa’s Lowry Park Zoo.

A 21-year-old female sloth bear named Hana was humanely euthanized at the Smithsonian’s National Zoo Monday, Oct. 17. In human care, sloth bears typically have a median life expectancy of early-to-mid ...

Sloth bear cub Remi plays harmonica as part of an animal enrichment program at the Smithsonian National Zoo. The activity encourages the same behavior sloth bears in the wild use to suck insects ...

Sloth bear cub Remi plays harmonica as part of an animal enrichment program at the Smithsonian National Zoo. The activity encourages the same behavior sloth bears in the wild use to suck insects ...

Sloth bear cub Hank is not only a daring adventurer, he's also a budding musician! This section of fire hose makes a great sound--like a tuba-- and is one of his ...

Videos in India show that sloth bears seem unaware of being stalked by the ferocious felines. When the tigers try to strike, the bears often get the better of them.

With urban areas expanding and climate change shrinking bears’ habitats, the animals’ interactions with humans will make — or break — efforts to preserve their populations.

On several occasions, the cameras photographed a shaggy brown bear identified by researchers as an “extremely rare” leucistic sloth bear. Sloth bears are a vulnerable species found across India.