A tiger cooling off in a watering hole at Tadoba National Park in India went on the attack when a sloth bear and its cub came into view as they searched for water.

“Sloth bear scaring away a Tiger - not quite a rare thing in the forests!" IFS officer Sudha Ramen wrote in the caption. Explore. Search Sunday, Jun 15, 2025. New Delhi o C. Subscribe.

This time, the tiger is wary and simply follows the bear, which at one point charges the tiger. The outcome of their encounter is unclear. Although tigers occasionally prey on sloth bears, the two ...

“The tiger attacked the bear [for] more than five minutes. It went after the sloth bear but she kept charging in order to protect her cub,” he explained. “It went on for 15 minutes.

The video starts with the tiger — a well-known dominant male named Matkasur — chasing off a sloth bear that was headed toward a water hole with her cub. The bear then charges the tiger and the ...

Sloth bear vs tiger fight video in the Tadoba Andhari Tiger Reserve in Chandrapur district of Maharashtra has gone viral on social media. Written by PTI. Nagpur. March 6, 2018 19:57 IST.

The phrase “mama bear” is defined as being a “strong, aggressively protective mother.” Women who are very protective of their ...

A dramatic video of a life-and-death struggle between a sloth bear and a tiger at Maharashtra's Tadoba National Park in India has gone viral, NDTV reported.

Sloth bears can grow up to about 6 feet tall and weigh between 200 and 300 pounds, according to the Smithsonian Institution. The one in the images appears to be on the larger end of that scale.

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Sloth bears are indigenous to the Indian subcontinent and are nocturnal, making the encounter between the tiger and the bear all the more exciting. Females can weigh between 120 and 270 pounds ...