How big does a Sloth bear get? Here is an overview over the average adult age:
A grown Sloth bear (Melursus ursinus) reaches an average size of 1.6 meter (5′ 3″).
When born, they have an average size of 0 cm (0′ 0″). Usually, they reach an age of 40 years. A full-grown exemplary reaches roughly 99.45 kg (219.25 lbs). A Sloth bear has 1 babies at once. The Sloth bear (genus: Melursus) is a member of the family Ursidae.
As a reference: Humans reach an average body size of 1.65m (5′ 5″) while carrying 62 kg (137 lbs). A human woman is pregnant for 280 days (40 weeks) and on average become 75 years old.
The sloth bear (Melursus ursinus) is a myrmecophagous bear species native to the Indian subcontinent. It feeds on fruits, ants and termites. It is listed as Vulnerable on the IUCN Red List, mainly because of habitat loss and degradation.It has also been called “labiated bear” because of its long lower lip and palate used for sucking up insects. It has a long, shaggy fur, a mane around the face, and long, sickle-shaped claws. It is lankier than brown and Asian black bears.It shares features of insectivorous mammals and evolved during the Pleistocene from the ancestral brown bear through convergent evolution.Sloth bears breed during spring and early summer and give birth near the beginning of winter. When their territories are encroached upon by humans, they sometimes attack them. Historically, humans have drastically reduced these bears’ habitat and diminished their population by hunting them for food and products such as their bacula and claws. Sloth bears have been tamed and used as performing animals and as pets.
Animals of the same family as a Sloth bear
We found other animals of the Ursidae family:
- Asian black bear with a size of 1.51 meter (5′ 0″)
- Brown bear with a size of 1.49 meter (4′ 11″)
- American black bear with a size of 1.38 meter (4′ 7″)
- Spectacled bear with a size of 1.77 meter (5′ 10″)
- Red panda with a size of 58.3 cm (1′ 11″)
- Polar bear with a size of 2 meter (6′ 7″)
- Giant panda with a size of 1.35 meter (4′ 6″)
- Sun bear with a size of 1.22 meter (4′ 1″)
Animals with the same size as a Sloth bear
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Sloth bear:
- Baikal seal with a size of 1.28 meter (4′ 3″)
- Gemsbok with a size of 1.62 meter (5′ 4″)
- Vaquita with a size of 1.52 meter (5′ 0″)
- South Andean deer with a size of 1.55 meter (5′ 2″)
- Javan rusa with a size of 1.63 meter (5′ 5″)
- Harbour porpoise with a size of 1.53 meter (5′ 1″)
- Sitatunga with a size of 1.52 meter (5′ 0″)
- Dibatag with a size of 1.51 meter (5′ 0″)
- Australian sea lion with a size of 1.8 meter (5′ 11″)
- Mountain goat with a size of 1.3 meter (4′ 4″)
Animals with the same litter size as a Sloth bear
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (1) as a Sloth bear:
- Jamaican fruit bat
- Lesser short-nosed fruit bat
- Greater bamboo lemur
- Rio Beni titi
- Painted ringtail possum
- Sangihe tarsier
- Sundevall’s roundleaf bat
- Aba roundleaf bat
- Big-eared woolly bat
- Baikal seal
Animals with the same life expectancy as a Sloth bear
Completely different animals, but becoming as old as a Sloth bear:
- Northern fur seal with an average maximal age of 35 years
- Javan rhinoceros with an average maximal age of 40 years
- Bonobo with an average maximal age of 48 years
- Bobcat with an average maximal age of 32.33 years
- Ringed seal with an average maximal age of 46 years
- Harp seal with an average maximal age of 42 years
- Tufted capuchin with an average maximal age of 45.08 years
- Wedge-capped capuchin with an average maximal age of 41 years
- Black capuchin with an average maximal age of 44 years
- Black crested gibbon with an average maximal age of 44.08 years
Animals with the same weight as a Sloth bear
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Melursus ursinus:
- Antarctic fur seal with a weight of 96.6 kilos (212.97 lbs)
- Lesser kudu with a weight of 93.81 kilos (206.82 lbs)
- Baikal seal with a weight of 89.5 kilos (197.31 lbs)
- Mule deer with a weight of 84.31 kilos (185.87 lbs)
- Ribbon seal with a weight of 90 kilos (198.42 lbs)
- Atlantic humpback dolphin with a weight of 100 kilos (220.46 lbs)
- Juan Fernández fur seal with a weight of 95 kilos (209.44 lbs)
- Asian black bear with a weight of 99.81 kilos (220.04 lbs)
- Dall’s porpoise with a weight of 106.03 kilos (233.76 lbs)
- Schomburgk’s deer with a weight of 106 kilos (233.69 lbs)