Diet Overlap

Melursus ursinus (Sloth Bear)
Vulpes bengalensis (Bengal Fox)

Common Diet

Ficus benghalensis (Indian banyan)
Mangifera indica (mango)
Ziziphus mauritiana (Indian jujube)

Common Habitat

Bandhavgarh National Park
Central Deccan Plateau dry deciduous forests
Chhota-Nagpur dry deciduous forests
Eastern highlands moist deciduous forests
Eastern Himalayan broadleaf forests
Himalaya
Himalayan subtropical broadleaf forests
Himalayan subtropical pine forests
Indo-Burma
Indravati Tiger Reserve
Kanha Tiger Reserve
Khathiar-Gir dry deciduous forests
Lower Gangetic Plains moist deciduous forests
Manas National Park
Namdapha National Park
Narmada Valley dry deciduous forests
Nilgiri Biosphere Reserve
North Western Ghats moist deciduous forests
North Western Ghats montane rain forests
Northern dry deciduous forests
Palamau Tiger Reserve
Rajaji National Park
Royal Chitwan National Park
South Deccan Plateau dry deciduous forests
South Western Ghats moist deciduous forests
South Western Ghats montane rain forests
Southern Asia
Terai-Duar savanna and grasslands
Upper Gangetic Plains moist deciduous forests
Western Ghats and Sri Lanka

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1Feeding ecology of sloth bears in a disturbed area in central India, H.S. Bargali, Naim Akhtar,and N.P.S. Chauhan, Ursus 15(2):212-217 (2004)
♦ 28.2 Indian fox, Vulpes bengalensis, A.J.T. Johnsingh and Y.V. Jhala, Sillero-Zubiri, C., Hoffmann, M. and Macdonald, D.W. (eds). 2004. Canids: Foxes, Wolves, Jackals and Dogs. Status Survey and Conservation Action Plan. IUCN/SSC Canid Specialist Group. Gland, Switzerland and Cambridge, UK. x + 430 pp.
♦ 3DIETARY NICHE SEPARATION BETWEEN SYMPATRIC FREE-RANGING DOMESTIC DOGS AND INDIAN FOXES IN CENTRAL INDIA, ABI TAMIM VANAK AND MATTHEW E. GOMPPER, Journal of Mammalogy, 90(5):1058–1065, 2009