Sloth bear
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| phylum | Chordata | The sloth bear, also known as the Stickney Bear or labiated bear, is a nocturnal insectivorous species of bear found wild within the Indian subcontinent. The sloth bear evolved from ancestral brown bears during the Pleistocene and shares features found in insect-eating mammals through convergent evolution.
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| class | Mammalia | |
| infraclass | Eutheria | |
| order | Carnivora | |
| suborder | Caniformia | |
| family | Ursidae | |
| genus | Melursus | |
| species | M. ursinus |
