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 ...

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.

If helping the Cleveland sloth bear cub isn't enough, other zoos need assistance. The El Paso Zoo in Texas is accepting votes on what to name its newest baby giraffe until March 23.

SEATTLE — A 20-year-old sloth bear at the Woodland Park Zoo has died, zoo officials announced on Friday. Tasha, a female sloth bear, was euthanized after veterinarians found she had cancer ...

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 ...

CLEVELAND — There’s a new baby at the Cleveland Metroparks Zoo after the birth of a female sloth bear cub late last year -- and now you can help pick her name. The zoo announced a naming ...