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Most go to Sri Lanka’s Yala and Wilpattu wildlife areas on the lookout for the leopard – a sleek predator of poise and grace. The sloth bear, however, looks more like it just got out of bed; it lopes around Sri Lanka’s dry wooded areas in a shaggy coat in search of food.

“My number one advice for anyone coming to the parks just to see bears would be to come in May and June,” says Arshad Nihaz from Leopard Trails, which runs luxury camps and safaris in Yala and Wilpattu. With less than a thousand left in the wild, time to catch this interesting beast in its natural habitat is running out. “If you come and stay three of four nights, you might see four or five bears.”