Keesha, a 28-year-old sloth bear, came to Zoo Miami in 2016 from the San Diego Zoo. She died Thursday, May 9, 2024, according to the zoo. Zoo Miami ...

A version of this article appears in print on Aug. 13, 2024, Section D, Page 2 of the New York edition with the headline: Claws Out: Hungry Tiger Discovers Tangling With a Sloth Bear Is No Picnic.

India’s vast and diverse geography is home to some of the world’s most extraordinary wildlife. While the popular reserves ...

Tiger vs bear? Sounds ridiculous, right? Well, a fight between these two animals can actually happen, and it has. In India, tigers and sloth bears occupy the same range, and in eastern Russia ...

The National Zoo's oldest male sloth bear, Merlin, died Wednesday after surgery to repair a partially twisted spleen. It was the zoo's third animal death in a month. Zoo officials said Merlin had ...