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American Black Bear (female)
Bears (Family Ursidae) | 2 of 12
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# Title American Black Bear (female) Description A female American Black Bear (Ursus americanus) rests under a tree near a home in a small town in the Blue Ridge Mountains. The noise of a garage door had awoken the bear from a mid-day nap. Two of her cubs sleep nearby. The bears live in and around a residential community that had recently cleared several acres of trees to make room for more human homes—destryong the forest where the mother bear and her ancestors originally lived and foraged, and forcing them into more stressful encounters with humans. This situation is just one example of the many ways that human activity disrupts and threatens bears' interests and lives. Human population growth has led to increased development and destruction of bears' natural habitat. Highway deaths are very common. An over-reliance on human food (and the lack of enforcement of bear-feeding regulations) results in "nuisance" bears. Bears also are terrorized and killed by trophy hunters—with the encouragement of national and state wildlife agencies. (Agency officials are hunters themselves and, in a clear but shamefully-overlooked conflict of interest, write the laws that benefit their so-called "sport.") Location and Date Black Mountain, North Carolina, USA 11/6/22 (Note: pre-2000 dates are approximate) Credit Mark Swanson / Swanson Media Camera/Source Nikon D500 DSLR Lens AF-S Nikkor 80-400mm f/4.5-5.6G ED VR Model/property releases available? Not applicable/Not applicable Keywords American Black Bear (Ursus americanus), Bears (Family Ursidae), Carnivores (Order Carnivora), Class Mammalia (Mammals), Kingdom Animalia (Animals) |
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