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Maine Black Bears, the athletic teams representing the University of Maine


Aldo Leopold Wilderness

The Wilderness area has fauna typical of the American Southwest: Mule deer, Elk, Wild Turkey, Peccary, Black bear and Cougar.

Bear-resistant food storage container

Yellow-Yellow, a wild 125-pound black bear in the Adirondacks near North Elba, New York, has figured out how to open several models of the BearVault, an approved container.

Cabela's Alaskan Adventures

The game features twelve different maps including Alaska and numerous bears such as the Grizzly bear, Black bear, Glacier Bear and Polar bear for the tutorial.

Devil's Gate Pass

Numerous other animals have been spotted in the area around the pass including American Badger, Black Bear, Chipmunk, Cougar, Coyote, Rabbit, Rubber Boa, Sage Grouse, and Vole.

Maxfield, Maine

In the early 1890s Maxfield was within the range of a giant (400 pound) wild black bear named "Old Ranger" who was eventually shot and killed by a local hunting party after a lifetime of raiding orchards, and having survived numerous other attempts to do him in.

Mount Timpanogos Wilderness

Some common wildlife found in Mount Timpanogos Wilderness include Rocky Mountain goat in the Emerald Lake region, as well as mule deer, elk, moose, mountain lion, black bear, and several species of raptor.

Riding Mountain National Park

The park is home to wolves, moose, elk, black bears, hundreds of bird species, countless insects and a captive bison herd.

Sterling Forest State Park

Its forest habitat is important for the survival of several species, including black bear and fox, timber rattlesnakes, a variety of raptors and songbirds and many rare invertebrates and plants.

The Bear Club

There are eight Clan Leaders and each one is based on the eight species of wild bear - Giant Panda (Bai Bo), Sun Bear (Bruang), Brown Bear (Kodi), Asiatic Black Bear (Basindo), Polar Bear (Nanook), Sloth Bear (Aswail), Spectacled Bear (Buka) and Black Bear (Kinamon).

The Quest Begins

The novel follows the adventure of four bears, Kallik (a polar bear), Lusa (a black bear), Toklo (a brown bear) and Ujurak (a shapeshifter who is usually a brown bear).


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Anne LaBastille

In her second book, Beyond Black Bear Lake (1987), she described how she built her smaller second cabin, Thoreau II, at a more remote area of her property in order to obtain a more Walden-like experience.

Baluchistan bear

The Baluchistan Bear, also called the Pakistan Black Bear (Ursus thibetanus gedrosianus) is a subspecies of the Asian Black Bear found in the Baluchistan Mountains of southern Pakistan and Iran.

Choteau, Montana

Letterman has talked about the ranch on his late-night show and showed photos of a black bear invading the place in September 2003.

La Crescenta-Montrose, California

In the spring of 2012, a large black bear managed to wander regularly from the Angeles National Forest into the La Crescenta-Montrose-Glendale residential area, rummaging through trash cans and showing a preference for Costco meatballs and tuna.

Salmon run

In 2009, researchers compared the foraging success of black bears with the white-coated spirit bear, a morphed subspecies of the black bear.