A black bear caused quite a stir during Friday’s round of the U.S. Senior Open at the Broadmoor Hotel.
The bear wandered out of the foothills and crossed several fairways, including the 13th fairway near golfer Bernard Langer, before wandering back into the wild without causing any trouble.
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The wanderings of a black bear for six days with a plastic food jar covering its head came to a deadly end in northern Minnesota, when authorities killed the hungry and thirsty animal in a town bustling with visitors.
The bear, a male about 2 years old, was shot by police in Frazee on Saturday night [...]
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A wildlife officer put his own life on the line in Florida when he leapt into the sea to save a huge black bear from drowning.
The startled 26 stone beast ran into the water at Alligator Point after being shot with a tranquilliser dart, reports Sky News.
Adam Warwick, realising the bear was in [...]
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Researchers from the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) found that the black bears that become habituated to human food and garbage may not be learning these behaviors exclusively from their mothers, as widely assumed. Bears that steal human food sources are just as likely to form these habits on their own or pick them up from [...]
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The way the warden sees it, the more than 400-pound (180-kilogram) black bear living in the middle of the sprawling Louisiana State Penitentiary is an extra layer of security.
“I love that bear being right where it is,” Warden Burl Cain said Monday. “I tell you what, none of our inmates are going to try to [...]
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