Female Sloth bear dies at Vizag Zoo

Divya, a female sloth bear, died at the Indira Gandhi Zoological Park in Vizag on Thursday. The zoo officials expressed grief over the death of one of zoo’s beloved resident.

In a press release, the zoo officials said that the 20-year-old animal died due to chronic renal failure. Divya was born at the Visakhapatnam zoo in 2003. The average life span of a sloth bear is around 15-20 years in the wild.

IGZP curator Nandini Salaria, IFS, said that zoo now has two other sloth bears. An 18-year-old lioness Maheswari died due to severe myocardial infraction on September 23, 2023.