The bear that evolved to hunt ants
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https://india.mongabay.com/short-article/2026/10/the-bear-that-evolved-to-hunt-ants/
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Species File: Exploring India’s biodiversity, one species at a time. During the monsoon this year, sloth bears seemed to quite literally unearth an unusual prey in the forest floor of Amrabad Tiger Reserve, Telangana: shield-tailed snakes. Researchers studying over a hundred scat samples found the remains of the snake in a handful – potentially the […]
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