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Standing up on his hindlegs, a Sloth Bear looks around, smells the air and tries to sense the presence of villagers upset at his intrusion into their mustard fields in Madhya Pradesh! A sloth bear near the boundary of Panna National Park (Madhya Pradesh, India) running around in sarsoan (mustard / rapeseed) fields near a village! While Sloth Bears can be quite harmful, unpredictable and dangerous due to their poor eyesight and easy excitability, this fellow was quite oblivious to the presence of yours truly - the cameraman, and went about his job quite diligently - scooping up termites from an ant-hill, loping around and just having fun! The sloth bear (Ursus ursinus = Melursus ursinus), also known as the labiated bear, is a nocturnal insectivorous species of bear found wild within the Ind
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