arch 2012: A wild sloth bear and her cubs are currently in the care of the International Animal Rescue-funded Bannerghatta Bear Rescue Centre in Bangalore, India, after she attacked a vegetable vendor to protect her cubs. The two helpless young bears subsequently narrowly escaped being killed by villagers seeking revenge for the attack.
The vegetable vendor was cycling to market in the early hours of the morning when he spotted the large female bear and her two cubs in his path. Reacting instinctively to protect her cubs from the potential threat, she flew at the terrified man and attacked him. Hearing his screams, a group of villagers rushed to the scene, frightening away the mother bear who abandoned her cubs and vanished into the forest.
Mob planned to burn cubsThe angry mob seized the cubs and returned to the village with them, planning to burn them to death. Fortunately some of the villagers took pity on the defenceless animals and insisted they should be handed over to the local forest officer. When he arrived, Range Forest Officer Mr Chandrappa took charge of the situation, calming the villagers and then setting a trap for the mother bear using the cubs as bait.
Later that evening the female appeared and entered the cage to reach her young. However, on finding she was trapped, the wild bear panicked and started biting wildly at the bars of the cage, injuring her mouth and jaws and splintering and damaging most of her teeth in the process. She also scratched at the cage, bruising and cutting her foot pads and damaging her claws.
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