{"id":9253,"date":"2025-11-06T07:00:36","date_gmt":"2025-11-05T23:00:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=9253"},"modified":"2025-11-06T07:00:36","modified_gmt":"2025-11-05T23:00:36","slug":"lincoln-zoo-welcomes-first-female-indian-sloth-bear-in-decades","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=9253","title":{"rendered":"Lincoln Zoo welcomes first female Indian sloth bear in decades"},"content":{"rendered":"


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Eleanor Maslin<\/span>East Yorkshire and Lincolnshire<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Zara is the first female Indian sloth bear in the UK for more than 40 years, according to Lincoln Zoo<\/figcaption><\/p>\n<\/figure>\n
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A zoo says it is now home to the only female Indian sloth bear in the UK.<\/p>\n

Lincoln Zoo, in Newball, Lincolnshire, welcomed seven-year-old Zara at the end of October after 18 months of planning for her arrival from Singapore Zoo.<\/p>\n

She will now form a breeding pair with Randhir, Lincoln Zoo’s five-year-old male sloth bear, as part of the European Endangered Species Programme.<\/p>\n

Zoo director Neil Mumby said: “We jumped at the option because there hasn’t been a female Indian sloth bear in the UK for over 40 years.”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Sloth bears have long claws and teeth and are found in Sri Lanka, India and Nepal. <\/p>\n

They are the world’s deadliest bear and widely considered among the most aggressive animals on the Indian subcontinent<\/a>.<\/p>\n

They are known to charge explosively at anyone they consider a threat \u2013 not just tigers, but also, humans.<\/p>\n

They have been classed as a vulnerable species with a declining population, with global numbers of the bears estimated at fewer than 20,000.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Zara is a new resident at Lincoln Zoo after she was flown across from Singapore<\/figcaption><\/p>\n<\/figure>\n
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Zara was flown from Singapore to Istanbul before a transfer flight to London Heathrow – a total of 16 hours in the sky.<\/p>\n

She arrived at Lincoln Zoo on 25 October and has locked eyes with Randhir from their enclosures, but the pair are yet to be formally introduced.<\/p>\n

Speaking on BBC Radio Lincolnshire<\/a>, Mr Mumby said: “At the moment she’s quite happy, it’s a fully heated house. She’s out and about and is acclimatising well.”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Zara is “acclimatising well” to her new home in Lincoln, the zoo says<\/figcaption><\/p>\n<\/figure>\n
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Mr Mumby said that Randhir came to the zoo earlier in the year from Germany and was matched with Zara by a European co-ordinator to create a “new bloodline from Asia”.<\/p>\n

“It’s a bit like a dating game,” he joked.<\/p>\n

Charlie Mumby, general manager at the zoo, said: “To finally welcome Zara and to play a direct role in the conservation of such a unique and underrepresented species is a huge privilege for our whole team.”<\/p>\n

Local representatives including Sir Edward Leigh, the Conservative MP for Gainsborough, helped to make Zara’s move possible by supporting amendments to the health certification requirements.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n


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