The Wildlife SOS and Forest Department recently found a sloth bear entangled in a barbed wire fence just outside the village of Vittalapura, India – and thank goodness they did! After the senior veterinarian, Dr. Aran, tranquilized the sloth bear to remove him from the fence, they also found a poacher’s snare around his left forelimb. Needless to say, the sloth bear would definitely not have survived if it hadn’t been tended to by this great team of compassionate animal lovers.
The bear appeared to be around 10 months old and was clearly scared, helpless, and in pain. It was also evident that he struggled a great deal to free himself because of mouth wounds from gnawing at the fence. The Wildlife SOS and Forest Dept. team also took great care to clean the bear’s injuries caused by the poachers snare. Once the sloth bear was treated, he was released back into the wild and you can actually see him go from groggy to running off through the grassland. Let’s hope this little guy stays out of harm’s way from here on out.
To learn more about the amazing rescue work by Wildlife SOS click here.
But where is the mom ? He will not survive without the mother , they should be searching for the mother and put the cub near her.
If you checkout the WildlifeSOS India Facebook page, it says that the mother was sited in the viicnity… the cub was released close to where the mother was so that he could make his way to her:
Wildlife S.O.S
Wildlife S.O.S Tiina Koljonen the mother was sighted in the vicinity but due to human intervention was not able to come near to the cub. Thus, after rescuing and treating the cub, he was released within the same periphery so as to make his way back to his mother. :)
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WildifeSOS India is one of the best wildlife rescue organizations in the world. They would never release a cub to the wilderness to fend for himself.
GREAT PEOPLE TO HELP THE BEAR FROM THIS.
Poor little sloth bear. After a pretty bad beginning in life, he was found by compassionate people who rescued him and let him go.