The bear that evolved to hunt ants

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• Researchers studying over a hundred scat samples in Amrabad Tiger Reserve, Telangana, found shield-tailed snake remains in a handful, potentially the first record of sloth bears hunting the snake.
• The sloth bear is a mostly nocturnal mammal native to the Indian subcontinent with a long snout and mobile lips for sucking up ants and termites.