Editing Sloth bear (section)

=== Hunting and products ===
[[File:Sloth bear hunt.jpg|thumb|Illustration of British officers hunting a bear on horseback]]
One method of hunting sloth bears involved the use of beaters, in which case, a hunter waiting on a post could either shoot the approaching bear through the shoulder or on the white chest mark if it was moving directly to him. Sloth bears are very resistant to body shots, and can charge hunters if wounded, though someone of steady nerves could score a direct hit from within a few paces of a charging bear. Sloth bears were easy to track during the wet season, as their clear footprints could be followed straight to their lairs. The majority of sloth bears killed in forests were due to chance encounters with them during hunts for other game. In hilly or mountainous regions, two methods were used to hunt them there. One was to lie in wait above the bear's lair at dawn and wait for the bear to return from its nocturnal foraging. Another was to rouse them at daytime by firing flares into the cave to draw them out.<ref name="hunt2">{{cite book|author=Russell, C. E. M.|title=Bullet and Shot in Indian Forest, Plain and Hill – With Hints to Beginners in Indian Shooting|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=bWy9B80bA6YC&pg=PA197|date=2008|publisher=Phillips Press|isbn=978-1-4437-6231-1|pages=197–|access-date=29 October 2016|archive-date=10 February 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230210170619/https://books.google.com/books?id=bWy9B80bA6YC&pg=PA197|url-status=live}}</ref> Sloth bears were also occasionally speared on horseback.<ref name="conservation"/> In Sri Lanka, the [[baculum]] of a sloth bear was once used as a charm against barrenness.<ref name="hunt"/>