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 ...

Video by @fortworthzooWe have bear-y exciting news! 🐻 Meet Cinnamon & Raisin, our 1-year-old American black bear siblings! These adorable cubs are now in their new home in the Pineywoods & Swamps ...

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 ...

CINCINNATI (WXIX) - Visitors can see two of the newest Cincinnati Zoo babies starting Friday at the new Bear Ridge habitat. Hazel and Juniper, two 8-month-old American black bear cubs who were ...

Louisiana prides itself on an abundance of wildlife, from alligators moving through bayous to herons lifting from marsh grass, but one animal carries a special layer of meaning for the state. The ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Louisiana black bear, a subspecies of the American black bear, once almost disappeared from the state entirely. The black bear was named the official state mammal in 1992. By the late twentieth ...