Birds of a feather, flock together – right? How about a feral black cat and a black bear? Little Bear, the cat, and his buddy, Sequoia, a 550-pound bear are BFFs! The two share some living space at a California zoo, and according to Jill Faust, senior zookeeper, the dog food they put out for …
Last year, an American black bear cub had been spotted for approximately four days on the banks of the Nolichucky River near Erwin in Tennessee. The cub was 5 months old and weighed 14 pounds. She had been abandoned by her mother and was malnourished. Danny Allen from High Mountain Expeditions saw the bear cub …
Lions, tigers, and bears – all of those things will strike fear in the heart of anyone who has to face one up close. Just ask Deneille Backstrom from Colorado Springs, Colorado. She came back to her house after dropping off her kids at the babysitter to find a huge 400-pound black bear in the …
Not all of nature’s animals are pack animals. We all know that wolves live in packs and have a hierarchy. But, for the most part, bears prefer to live on their own. During mating season, bears will find each other, but it is just a brief encounter. Lassi Rautiainen, a wildlife photographer, found an unusual …
Cruelty to animals is taboo and should not be encouraged, even in tourist places such as zoos. Sadly, this still happens in such places, even if it is a performance in front of a live audience. At the Fujian zoo in China, a moon bear was in the midst of a live performance. It was …
This is something you don’t see every day! A family of bears took their time crossing the road in Town of Carroll in New York. Police parked their cars in the street to make sure that the bear family was safe from other motorists. One bear cub was seen lying on the side of the …
The Vail Police Department got a call about a bear disturbance on the afternoon of May 31. When they arrived, they found nothing. But it was clear that a bear had entered an apartment through an open kitchen window. The woman who lived in the apartment wasn’t home during the invasion, but she did have …
You put a rain barrel out in your yard to collect the rain. So, after it rains, you should be able to go to the bucket and collect the water – right? Well, that didn’t exactly happen for one family in Colorado. Day after day, the water in their rain bucket was missing. It would …
Bears are intelligent creatures which are thought to reside only in the woodlands, until the human population came along and started building houses and buildings in the areas where they used to live. This causes a clash between bear and man, and bears become human trash scavengers – this problem still exists today. In Salem, …
Ooey, gooey chocolate brownies – who doesn’t love those? Add a scoop (or two) of vanilla ice cream, and I am in heaven! A woman in Connecticut was whipping up a batch of delicious brownies when she heard something bang against her screen door. She was shocked to see a young bear standing on her …