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The American black bear (Ursus americanus), also known as the black bear, is a species of medium-sized bear endemic to North America. It is the continent's smallest and most widely distributed bear species. It is an omnivore, with a diet varying greatly depending on season and location. It typically lives in largely forested areas but will ...
Cinnamon bear by J.T. Bowen (after John James Audubon). The various color morphs are frequently intermixed in the same family; hence, seeing either a black-colored female with brown or red-brown cubs, a brown-colored female with black or red-brown cubs, or a female of any one of the three colors with a black cub, a brown cub and a red-brown cub, is a common occurrence.
ANWR is home to a diverse range of endemic mammal species; notably, it is one of the few North American locations with all three endemic American bears—the polar bear, grizzly bear, and American black bear, each of which resides predominantly in its own ecological niche. Besides the bears, other mammal species include the moose, caribou ...
The Museum of Life and Science announced Tuesday it now has a 9-month-old American black bear cub found abandoned in the wild last spring. The 88-pound male cub joins the Durham museum’s three ...
How big do bears get in Mississippi? The average adult female is 100-250 pounds with adult males coming in at 150 pounds to more than 400 pounds, according to MDWFP. And some get even larger. "The ...
The spirit bear, sometimes called the kermode bear (Ursus americanus kermodei), is a subspecies of the American black bear and lives in the Central and North Coast regions of British Columbia, Canada. [2] It is the official provincial mammal of British Columbia and symbol of Terrace, British Columbia. [3][4] While most Kermode bears are black ...
The glacier bear (Ursus americanus emmonsii), sometimes referred to as the "blue bear", is a subspecies of American black bear with silver-blue or gray hair endemic from Southeast Alaska, to the extreme northwestern tip of British Columbia, and to the extreme southwest of the Yukon. [2][3] The Tlingit name for the glacier bear is a reference to ...
The forcing of a smaller bear into a more herbivorous diet has been compared to the modern relationship between brown bears and American black bears. [72] [100] Where they overlap, black bears take the lower trophic niche, with lower population densities, much smaller territorial ranges, and seasonal migrations. [102]