A grizzly old time is being had at the Ohio zoo as staff tend to a newborn sloth bear and drum up help for what to name her.

Gaylene Thomas, a wildlife care manager at the San Diego Zoo, oversees two teams that care for a variety of species, ...

It was a European zoologist, George Shaw, who named the sloth bear for its long, thick claws and unusual teeth. He thought that the bear was related to the tree sloth due to these features," the ...

The zoologist who first named the species did think the bears were related to tree sloths because of their long, thick claws and unusual teeth but later research found that the two animals had no ...

The sloth bear gets its name from its long, thick claws and unusual teeth, comparable to those of the sloth. It is also known for being the only species of bear that carries its young on their ...

Sloth bears — which are not actually related to ... The misnomer is attributed to their long, thick claws and unusual teeth. Thomas said some of the adaptations that allow them to eat insects ...

WE have a primal fear of lions and tigers and bears...But we welcome them into our homes” says Gordon Buchanan.