Spickler, Zoo Director. “And seems very sweet. We are happy to be on this journey with her and thankful to California ...

Age, sex, season, and population density are important determinants of home range size. Home ranges overlap; males have larger (100-125 sq. mi) ranges that females (24-50 sq. mi). North American ...

Sequoia Park Zoo has welcomed a new resident, an adult female American black bear named Ishung (pronounced “Ee-shung”), ...

is a white variant of the North American black bear, and it's found almost exclusively here in the Great Bear Rainforest. At 25,000 square miles—one and a half times as big as Switzerland—the ...

Thousands of black bears live in Northern Michigan and the Upper Peninsula. Here are some tips for staying safe as they emerge from hibernation.

American black bears, Asiatic black bears, and brown bears. Across the board, infanticide (which the authors define as consumption of unrelated youth) and conspecific strife (consumption of an adult) ...

Tule lost his soulmate Noni, a female black bear, in October, 2024. Even though the two weren't related they bonded at Lake ...

There is science, not just folklore, behind several of the spirit bear’s traits. By genus and species, it’s an American black bear. But if both parents (no matter their color) have the same ...

Human-Wildlife Interactions, Vol. 12, No. 3 (Winter 2018), pp. 411-416 (6 pages) Over a century after extirpation from Indiana, USA, 2 American black bears (Ursus americanus) were confirmed in the ...

The American black bear is a medium-sized bear native to North America. It is the continent’s smallest and most widely distributed bear species. Black bears are omnivores with their diets ...