Black bears, a native species, were driven out of the state by the mid-1800s as forests were taken over by farmland. The ...

Caption: Top left: A cinnamon-colored black bear and her cub flee after hearing the sound of human voices. Top right: Brown bears on alert after hearing the sound of engines from an off-highway ...

You hear it crashing through the trees. There’s no way to escape it. The sloth bear is the most dangerous bear in the world. And it’s going to tear your face off. Sloth bears are found throughout the ...

Clashes between bears and humans have climbed sharply at three California national parks in 2026. Wildlife experts say black bears’ behavior changes as they prepare for hibernation. Black bears are ...

A black bear pokes around some garbage and compost containers in Stowe in 2024. This summer, a black bear broke into a home in the town of Jamaica while the residents were away. They came home to a ...

Bears are hungry right now. Following a challenging summer with poor natural food production, bears have entered a period known as hyperphagia, an annual cycle of intense, nearly nonstop eating that ...

There is ever-growing global interest in the nature and effects of human-nonhuman interactions (anthrozoology) in all sorts of situations, and it's not at all surprising to learn that humans ...

Bears and humans know hunger in the same way. Our brains receive nervous system and hormonal cues, our stomachs feel empty, our blood sugar drops. It’s time to find food. But for bears, there is so ...

What if there were an easy way to prevent bears from climbing trees in the downtown core, and the circus that ensues, inevitably ending in break-ins and euthanization? There just might be, and it's ...