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Everything to know before you go - Sri Lanka lures travellers with an impressive array: wildlife, history, exceptional food, surfing hotspots and beaches ...
The sloth bear found dead near the Maradanmaduwa wildlife circuit bungalow in Wilpattu National Park in northern Sri Lanka. Image courtesy of Rohan Fonseka, via Mongabay. Losing ground ...
Sri Lanka's attractions include many wildlife creatures, especially the endemic Sri Lankan sloth bear a nocturnal creature. Looking for where to go in Sri Lank to see the bears, the Yala and ...
In Sri Lanka, a sloth bear’s diet consists of insects and grubs, berries, nuts, roots, and any meat that they find as carrion or can scavenge off. They rarely kill other animals. As such, there was no ...
Sloth Bear: The Barefoot Bear of Sri Lanka makes the fascinating biology, ecology and challenges of conserving sloth bears accessible to a broad audience. In several sections of the book we were ...
Sri Lanka’s sloth bear, Melursus ursinus inornatus, is recognized as a sub-species unique to the country. Its distribution is limited to the lowlands of the north, east and southeastern areas. “Here, ...
On June 19, 2025, a sloth bear approached a tour truck in Yala National Park, Sri Lanka. It bit a hole into the front-right tire before darting off into the wild. The bear seemed to have its own ...
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