Sloth Bear at Kabini

[Hymakar Valluru]

I believe this was the sighting of a Sloth Bear after 6 months. After this in last week i believe it had made an appearance a few more times.

Canon 60D
300 f/4 +1.4 TC
Shutter speed :1/320
AV : F/5.6
ISO 400

Cropped ~50%

[Mrudul Godbole]

Nice sighting. Its good to know that sloth bears sightings has increased in Kabini. Tough conditions to compose, as the tree divides the frame into 3 parts. Maybe moving the camera more to the left would have helped to remove the open space on the right (by framing with the bark on the right). How long was the sighting? Thanks for sharing.

[Saktipada Panigrahi]

Nice rare sighting. Appears to be a large one. Thanks for sharing. SaktiWild

[Sabyasachi Patra]

Good to know that you saw the sloth bear in kabini. What time did you sight it? It would have been nice to see it even closer and in the open. Dunbar Brander had written a lot about Sloth bears and their habits etc in the book Wild Animals in Central India. http://www.indiawilds.com/diary/wild-animals-in-central-india/

[Sucheth Lingachar]

Nice one... and lucky you.... till now i have never photographed Sloth Bear.

[Hymakar Valluru]

Thanks for the comments, sighting was maximum for 10 seconds from a distance of 100 to 150 mtrs with lot of distance. Sighting happened at ~5.30 PM