The Bond of Love

-Kenneth Anderson

Encounter with a sloth bear

Two years ago, while passing through the sugarcane fields near Mysore, the author encountered a black sloth bear. The bear had come out in order to escape the shooting spree meant to drive away wild pigs. 

Though the author would never have shot the animal wantonly, one of his companion shot it, killing it on the spot. Soon they realised that a baby bear too had been sitt…