Despite what their name suggests, American black bears can wear a range of colors: brown, cinnamon, blond, gray, even white. Black bear cubs at an animal refuge in Linville, N.C.

The black bear has no predators among the wild animals that currently reside in the Adirondack Park except other black bears. This species is ... (100-125 sq. mi) ranges that females (24-50 sq. mi).

How to identify a black bear. Black bears are usually about 3 feet (0.9 meters) tall at the shoulder when standing on all fours, and up to 7 feet (2.1 m) tall when standing upright on two legs ...

American black bears are making more frequent forays into human territory these days, showing up in pools and hot tubs, on trampolines and tackling faux deer. Accessibility statement Skip to main ...

Still, "American black bears are doing well all over," Spiker says: Scientists believe there are now more black bears in North America than there were when the settlers arrived in the 1600s.

Start with that simple curious observation: All American black bears (Ursus americanus) aren’t black.They come in brown, also called “cinnamon,” blond and even “bluish-grey.” ...

Sequoia Park Zoo welcomed Ishŭng, an American black bear, this week. Her name means “she likes to eat,” according to Josefina Frank, chair of the Bear River Band of the Rohnerville Rancheria.

This article is brought to you by Audubon Nature Institute. On any given day, the three black bears cubs residing at Audubon Zoo are a delight to watch. Whether they’re climbing trees, swimming ...

Bears at Disney World? Get used to it, experts say Bears at Disney World? Get used to it, experts say Animal-friendly laws are gaining traction across the U.S. Animal-friendly laws are gaining ...

In Florida, where more than 4,000 black bears were tallied in 2017, a 53 percent jump from a decade earlier, tech-savvy residents can track nuisance animals using an interactive bear map created ...

When white-furred black bears are born in nature, it almost exclusively happens in western Canada where a subspecies of the American black bear lives. Called Kermode bears they reside on a ...

Ranger, an American black bear at the Los Angeles Zoo, is shown in 2018. He was an orphaned cub when he was taken in by a family in Minnesota in 1997, surrendered to wildlife officials and sent to ...