Spanish police came to the aid of a brown bear whose apparent quest for acorns led him to pad the pre-dawn streets of a busy city in the north-western region of Castilla y León. The animal was spotted in the centre of Ponferrada in the early hours of Tuesday by a taxi-driver, who filmed its […]
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All Bears are Omnivores Like Humans, New Study Suggests
“Bears are not carnivores in the strictest sense like a cat where they consume a high-protein diet,” said Washington State University’s Professor Charles Robbins. “In zoos forever, whether it’s polar bears, brown bears or sloth bears, the recommendation has been to feed them as if they are high-protein carnivores. When you do that, you kill […]
Animals Asia Rescues Bear Named Paddington From Cruel Bile Farm in Vietnam
Animals Asia, an animal welfare charity, saved Paddington the Asian black bear from a bile farm last week. When the organization first learned about Paddington through the Forest Protection Department in Nam Dinh, Vietnam, they knew they needed to save her. The Forest Protection Department told the organization that an officer had spotted Paddington stuck […]
Forbidden fruit trees: Canadian national park urges locals to remove bear-attracting bushes
The waning days of summer and a bounty of ripe fruit have pitted hungry black bears against park rangers in a fight over a Canadian mountain town’s fruit trees. Residents living in the Jasper national park townsite have been warned that fruit trees on their properties are luring in black bears and need to be […]
Rare One-In-A-Million Spirit Bear Spotted On Michigan Trail
A one-in-a-million black bear was captured on camera in Michigan and people can’t get enough of it. A Michigan trail camera managed to photograph a white-colored black bear in the western Upper Peninsula of Michigan. Photos of the bear were shared in a Facebook post by an Upper Peninsula trekking guide Facebook page, Yooper Outdoors […]
Sweet spot: bear crashes Connecticut birthday party to steal cupcakes
A birthday picnic ended in a big surprise for a Connecticut family when a black bear emerged from the woods and made a beeline for their cupcakes. Rauf and Laura Majidian captured video of the bear as it raided a table of goodies laid out for their two-year-old son Cyrus’s party at their West Hartford […]
Black Bear Cub Tortured to Death After Innocently Wandering into a Town to Find Water
This poor black bear cub was tortured to death after innocently wandering into a village in Mexico looking for water. The 4-month-old cub ended up in Castaños town, in the Mexican state of Coahuila, where the locals heartlessly tied the bear’s legs together, at it, and choked it to death, Mexico News Daily reported. Footage […]
Bear filmed fighting off attacking male found dead with cubs in Spanish cave
Spanish wildlife rangers have recovered the bodies of two brown bear cubs and their mother, who is thought to have been the same animal filmed three months ago sending a male bear tumbling to his death down a precipice after he attacked. Rangers and bear experts found the bodies of the female and her cubs […]