Diet Overlap

Melursus ursinus (Sloth Bear)
Cynopterus sphinx (greater short-nosed fruit bat)

Common Diet

Cassia fistula (Pudding-pipe Tree)
Ficus benghalensis (Indian banyan)
Ficus minahassae (clustertree)
Ficus religiosa (peepul tree)
Mangifera indica (mango)

Common Habitat

Brahmaputra Valley semi-evergreen forests
Central Deccan Plateau dry deciduous forests
Chhota-Nagpur dry deciduous forests
Eastern highlands moist deciduous forests
Eravikulam National Park
Himalaya
Himalayan subtropical broadleaf forests
Indo-Burma
Indravati Tiger Reserve
Kanha Tiger Reserve
Khathiar-Gir dry deciduous forests
Lower Gangetic Plains moist deciduous forests
Manas National Park
Mizoram-Manipur-Kachin rain forests
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
Simlipal Tiger Reserve
South Deccan Plateau dry deciduous forests
South Western Ghats moist deciduous forests
South Western Ghats montane rain forests
Southern Asia
Sri Lanka dry-zone dry evergreen forests
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)
♦ 2Temporal patterns of resource use by the short-nosed fruit bat, Cynopterus sphinx (Megachiroptera: Pteropodidae), Elangovan, V | Marimuthu, G | Kunz, TH, Journal of Mammalogy [J. Mammal.]. Vol. 82, no. 1, pp. 161-165. 2001.
♦ 3"Fig-eating by vertebrate frugivores: a global review", MIKE SHANAHAN, SAMSON SO, STEPHEN G. COMPTON and RICHARD CORLETT, Biol. Rev. (2001), 76, pp. 529–572
♦ 4Cynopterus sphinx, Jay F. Storz and Thomas H. Kunz, MAMMALIAN SPECIES No. 613, pp. 1-8 (1999)