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When the West was being settled, black bears were wiped out from much of their native range. Slowly, they’ve reoccupied much ...

American black bears, Ursus americanus, are native to Summit County and were here long before humans arrived. We’ve built our homes and infrastructure in black-bear habitat. Black bears have four main ...

Historically, Black bears were the biggest predator to travel the Big Bend area of Texas. But overhunting and habitat loss ...

By the mid-1900s, black bears were becoming increasingly rare in Far West Texas. Their decline was driven by several factors, including ranchers who shot and trapped the wild animals, and a loss of ...

The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission receives more than 6,000 calls about black bears each year. Florida's black bear population has grown from under 500 in the 1970s to about 4,000 ...

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. A wild, very “polite” and possibly lonely black bear recently paid a visit to its neighbors at a Northern ...

Sequoia Park Zoo said on Friday, Oct. 17, that its staff found a "wild American black bear" roaming the grounds of its Redwood Sky Walk The zoo said the bear was seen "interacting" with the Sequoia ...

Florida’s black bear hunt is scheduled to go forward next month despite its unpopularity and a lack of recent population studies to know if the mammal’s numbers are in decline. The Florida Fish and ...

Got room for one more? A wild but “very polite” black bear stumbled his way into a California zoo and paid a visit to his three local counterparts, peeking into their habitat from the spectator’s row.

"Overall, he was a very polite visitor," Sequoia Park Zoo zoo shared, calling the bear a "curious guy" Kimberlee Speakman is a digital writer at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since 2022. She ...

A wild, very "polite" and possibly lonely black bear recently paid a visit to its neighbors at a Northern California zoo. Before opening for the day, staff at Sequoia Park Zoo in Eureka were ...