If you want to watch a female black bear giving birth to cubs, check out Jewel’s Den Cam at the North American Bear Center in Ely, Minnesota. The camera is very cool – I’m watching it right now and Jewel, a female black bear, is scratching her head with her front and back paw! The camera [...]
Ani Haas, former U.S. ski team member, was recently attacked by a black bear. By now you’ve probably heard the story. “A wild animal attack has been one of my biggest fears,’’ the Missoula native told TODAY’s Ann Curry in an exclusive interview. “It’s something I’ve always talked about and been worried about. Growing up [...]
Bear photo courtesy USFWS. Bear and human run-ins are on the rise. Imagine walking into your kitchen and seeing a bear! That’s what happened in Colorado to Griffin W. Smith, a college student home last week who came downstairs for breakfast to discover a black bear eating from the dog’s dish. You can read the article, [...]
There is a black bear in a neighborhood in Greensboro, NC and wildlife officers said the best option to get the bear to leave is to leave it alone. The North Carolina Wildlife Resources Commission said they would be putting the bear and more people at risk if they were to tranquilize it, according to [...]
For those of you interested in whitetail deer management, the coyote tops the list of whitetail deer predators. This is according to Paul Smith, the Outdoors Editor for the Milwaukee-Wisconsin Journal Sentinel, in his excellent article, ”Coyotes lead way in deer deaths“. This preliminary data is from a study in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. Coyotes [...]
Are you bear aware? How do you tell the difference between a black bear and a grizzly bear? Defenders of Wildlife Bear Aware Coordinator, Erin Edge, gives you some clues in the video below.
Black bears are often considered among the most dangerous animals in North America. BBC Earth News profiles one man who says that perception could not be further from the truth. “For the first half of my life, I struggled to control my fear of bears. But bears like June have taught me that they are [...]
Everyone seems to love black bear cubs! The Wisconsin Black Bear Education Center’s mission is “to observe the habits of black bears in a real-life atmosphere and to provide educational experiences about black bears for people of all ages.” In the article “Getting up close and personal with the wild black bear“, Traska , the center’s [...]
