Vulnerable sloth bears are attracted to human food waste: a novel situation in Mount Abu town, India
@article{Prajapati2021VulnerableSB, title={Vulnerable sloth bears are attracted to human food waste: a novel situation in Mount Abu town, India}, author={Utkarsh Prajapati and Vijay Kumar Koli and K. S. Gopi Sundar}, journal={Oryx}, year={2021}, volume={55}, pages={699 - 707} }
Abstract Human–carnivore interactions are on the rise globally, and often take the form of damage to property and livelihoods, human injuries or fatalities, and retaliatory killing of carnivores. Potential conflict situations are rarely recognized early, and circumstances are often complicated by mismatches between people's perceptions and reality. Following media reports of sloth bear Melursus ursinus attacks on people, we evaluated the situation in a tourism-dominated town in southern…
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Habitat occupancy of sloth bear Melursus ursinus in Chitwan National Park, Nepal
- Environmental ScienceEcology and evolution
- 2022
Abstract Mammals have experienced a massive decline in their populations and geographic ranges worldwide. The sloth bear, Melursus ursinus (Shaw, 1791), is one of many species facing conservation…
Fine‐scale ecological and anthropogenic variables predict the habitat use and detectability of sloth bears in the Churia habitat of east Nepal
- Environmental ScienceEcology and evolution
- 2022
Abstract Once widespread throughout the tropical forests of the Indian Subcontinent, the sloth bears have suffered a rapid range collapse and local extirpations in the recent decades. A significant…
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