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There is no hunting season for bears in the state. [22] In 2023, a black bear stole 60 cupcakes from a bakery in Avon. [24] The DEP asks people who see bears in Connecticut to do the following: [23] "Enjoy it from a distance." "Never attempt to feed or attract bears." "Report bear sightings to the Wildlife Division, at (860) 675-8130."
A bear helping itself to some pilfered birdseed in West Milford. Keeping bears away from your feeder may seem an impossibility, but there are tools and tricks that can help.
During the autumn, bear are hunted while feeding on salmon or wild berries in the surrounding tundra. The average size of the bear taken is around 7.5–8.0 ft (2.3–2.4 m) in Magadan and Okhotsk and 8.0–8.5 ft (2.4–2.6 m) in Kamchatka.
According to the NJDEP, if you encounter a bear do not: Feed the bear. Approach the bear. Run from the bear. Make direct eye contact with the bear. To handle a bear encounter the correct and safe way:
More black bears, of which they are now more than 5,000 in the state, could come into the area at any point, Wattles said. The state's bear population has an expected annual increase of 8%.
Brown bears will also commonly consume animal matter, which in summer and autumn may regularly be in the form of insects, larvae such as grubs and including beehives.Most insects eaten are of the highly social variety found in colonial nests, which provide a likely greater quantity of food, although they will also tear apart rotten logs on the forest floor, turn over rocks or simply dig in ...
Don’t feed wildlife — ever. It’s illegal to feed bears in Montana. Bears that become conditioned to human food lose their instinctual foraging behavior and become a threat to people’s ...
The key danger for polar bears posed by the effects of climate change is malnutrition or starvation due to habitat loss.Polar bears hunt seals from a platform of sea ice. Rising temperatures cause the sea ice to melt earlier in the year, driving the bears to shore before they have built sufficient fat reserves to survive the period of scarce food in the late summer and early fall.