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	Black Bears in Massachusetts
		Black bears have good eyesight and hearing and have an extraordinary sense of smell which is used to locate food and recognize potential danger.
		American fl bears are found in most of Canada south of the tree line and still occupy 85% of their original range there.
		Black bears have recently reoccupied much of their original range in the U.S., especially in the east, and their status is generally favorable.
	www.mass.gov /dfwele/dfw/dfw_bears.htm (2310 words)

	American Black Bear (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-07-10)
		American fl bears are thought to avoid open areas due to the risk of attack from brown bears.
		Black bears mostly feed on plant matter, such as grasses, herbs, fruits, berries, honey, nuts and seeds, but a small percentage of their diet is made up of animals, such as insects, fish, small vertebrates and carcasses.
		American fl bears are the most common species of bears and are not endangered, although individual populations are at risk of isolation and starvation.
	www.jeholt.com /bear/american_black_bear.htm (238 words)

	American Bear
		Black bears on the West Coasts live primarily on berries, fish, and marine invertebrates found along beaches and in tidal pools.
		Black bears are the smallest of the Northern American bears.
		Black bears in northern Canada den earlier and remain in their dens much longer than those in the South.
	members.tripod.com /~JFroilan/americanbear.htm (850 words)

	American Black Bear
		Black bears have strong, highly curved claws and the profile of the face is convex when compared with the more concave profile of a brown bear.
		Black bears are normally found only in forested areas, but within such habitat they are highly adaptable as long as they have good supply of food, water, shelter, and space to live.
		Black bears are widely distributed throughout the forested areas of North America although they have been totally driven out from some of their original range.
	arktofile.net /pages/bear_am.html (1482 words)

	The American Black Bear; all the Information. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-07-10)
		Black bears have a heavy body, short tail, rounded ears, plantigrade feet (i.e., both heel and toe make contact with the ground when walking in a manner similar to humans), and a hind foot with five toes.
		Black bears lack the distinct shoulder hump of the brown/grizzly bear and the claws on the front paws are much shorter and generally not visible from a distance.
		Adult males and adolescent bears lose between 15% and 30% of their weight while it is not uncommon for a female cub with newborn cubs to have lost as much as 40% of her weight.
	www.exploring.nu /BlackbearInfo.htm (1801 words)

	America Black Bear (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-07-10)
		Black bears have strong, highly curved claws and the profile of the face is convex when compared with the more concave profile of a brown bear.
		Historically, fl bears are thought to have stayed away from open habitat because of the risk of predation by brown bears.
		Black bears have become established in the tundra of northern Labrador, a region where there are no brown bears.
	www.bearbiology.com /amerblackbear.htm (643 words)

	American Black Bear (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-07-10)
		Female American fl bears often do not give birth to their first young until they are five or six years old, and they usually do not have more than two cubs every second or third year.
		Because most American fl bears do not live beyond ten years of age, and because juvenile mortality is rather high, many females barely replace themselves in the population.
		American fl bears do not prey on humans, but sometimes they hurt or kill people in conflicts over space or food or while protecting their young.
	library.thinkquest.org /26184/americanbbear.htm (394 words)

	American Black Bear Baiting (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-07-10)
		The International Association for Bear Research and Management (IBA) is a professional organization committed to conservation and restoration of the world’s bears through research, science-based population and habitat management, and education.
		Black bear populations have been healthy and/or growing in virtually all of the states where they occur, and bears have been spreading to reoccupy areas of former range.
		In fact, many of the bears that come to hunters’ baits cannot become chronically habituated or nuisance bears because they are shot by the hunters and removed from the population.
	www.bearbiology.com /blkbrbaiting_2003_10_04.htm (984 words)

	Black Bear Facts
		Bear folklore is confusing because it is based on caricatures, with Teddy Bears and the kindly Smoky on one hand and ferocious magazine cover drawings on the other.
		General Description: The fl bear is approximately 4 to 7 feet from nose to tail, and two to three feet high at the withers.
		Defense of cubs is a grizzly bear trait.
	www.bear.org /Black/Black_Bear_Facts.html (1720 words)

	American black bear - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Black bears may occasionally prey on domestic sheep and pigs when their natural foods are scarce.
		It is not uncommon for fl bears to disengage after being injured; pepper spray in the eyes has been known to work but one needs to be fairly close to the bear to hit the eyes with the spray.
		Attack by bears are in most cases defensive measures and a result of the animal having been startled by human presence or in the case of brown bears human having come too close to offspring or having wandered in between the sow and her cubs.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/American_Black_Bear (3529 words)

	American Black Bear - Search Results - MSN Encarta (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-07-10)
		American Black Bear, common name for a medium-sized bear of North America.
		American fl bears are native to North America, ranging from Alaska and Canada to mountains in northern Mexico.
		The American fl bear (Ursus americanus), also known as the cinnamon bear, is the most common bear species native to North America.
	encarta.msn.com /American_Black_Bear.html (250 words)

	American black bear facts.
		American fl bears can live about a quarter century in the wild, so the chances are good that if a bear has been spotted in an area, it could still be there years later.
		Considered a medium-size bear at an average size of between 135 to 350 pounds, the American fl bear is mostly fl, with a brown muzzle and white chest patch.
		American fl bears gather their food from large feeding areas; their keen sense of smell leads them to food, which is why it is so important for campers to store food away from their main resting site.
	www.american-ginseng-roots.com /american_black_bear.php (299 words)

	Foothills Land Conservancy - Black Bear Facts (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-07-10)
		Some bears almost double their body weight in the fall by feeding on nuts and fruits especially acorns, beech nuts, cherries, and pokeberries.
		In spring, fl bears are mostly active in the early morning and late evening.
		Black bears are solitary, except for mothers with offspring.
	www.foothillsland.org /bearfcts.htm (499 words)

	The North American Black Bear
		American fl bear populations appear to be stable or increasing across most of their North American range.
		It is estimated fl bear population in the United States grew by some 25 to 35 percent during the past 15 years, from roughly 300,000 in 1988 to an estimated 450,000 in the mid-1990s.
		Black bears are large mammals, averaging between 100 to 150 pounds for females and up to 300 pounds or more for males.
	www.bowhunts.com /bear_1.html (962 words)

	ADW: Ursus americanus: Information
		Throughout bears' range, prime fl bear habitat is characterized by relatively inaccessible terrain, thick understory vegetation, and abundant sources of food in the form of shrub or tree-borne soft or hard mast.
		Black bears in the southern Appalachian Mountains survive in a predominantly oak- hickory and mixed mesophytic forest.
		Black bear cubs may be at risk of being killed by large predators, such as wolves and mountain lions.
	animaldiversity.ummz.umich.edu /site/accounts/information/Ursus_americanus.html (2079 words)

	North American Black Bear
		Currently fl bears exist in 95% of their former range and they are even returning to forested areas in or near major cities.
		Each year humans move farther into fl bear habitat, forcing bears to learn how to live in a new setting where natural food sources, dens, and water are harder to access.
		In the United States, fl bears live in 28 states from the southeast to the Appalachian Mountains, in New England, the lower MIssissippi valley, the upper Midwest, throughout the Rocky Mountains, the southwest and the West Coast.
	www.greatbear.org /nablackbear.htm (927 words)

	American Black Bear, Wildlife Species Information: U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
		Black bears breed in the spring, usually in May and June, but the embryos do not begin to develop until the mother dens in the fall to hibernate through the winter months.
		Although attitudes concerning bears and other game animals were changing and wildlife laws protecting fl bears and other animals were being enacted, the understanding of fl bear biology, behavior, and habitat requirements remained incomplete.
		American fl bear also is protected by the Act in the affected states (Louisiana, Mississippi, and Texas) due to its close resemblance to this subspecies.
	www.fws.gov /species/species_accounts/bio_bear.html (1166 words)

	NatureWorks - Black Bear (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-07-10)
		The American fl bear is the smallest North American bear.
		Black bears in the west may be cinnamon brown and in parts of British Columbia and the Yukon Territory in Canada the fl bear may even be silver gray or white.
		The fl bear is found in a variety of habitats that include tree-covered areas and meadows.
	www.nhptv.org /natureworks/blackbear.htm (592 words)

	NOVA Online \| Japan's Secret Garden \| Secrets of Hibernation
		Biologists have long acknowledged that hibernating fl bears may have something to teach us, and they are now studying the animals with an eye to aiding everything from organ preservation to kidney disorders, from human hibernation to long-distance space travel.
		One of nine species of bear in the world, the American fl bear is found throughout North America, from the frozen tundras of the Yukon to the steaming bayous of Louisiana.
		But that's the way bears like it: Black bears do no exercising of any sort during the winter months, prefering to lie rolled into a tight ball, with their heads between their forepaws and their heavily furred backs exposed to the worst of the cold.
	www.pbs.org /wgbh/nova/satoyama/hibernation.html (1267 words)

	American Black Bear, Wildlife Species Information: U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
		The fl bear is approximately 5 feet long and varies in weight from 125 to 400 pounds.
		Although attitudes concerning bears and other game animals were changing and wildlife laws protecting fl bears and other animals were being enacted, the understanding of fl bear biology, behavior, and habitat requirements remained incomplete.
		American fl bear also is protected by the Act in the affected states (Louisiana, Mississippi, and Texas) due to its close resemblance to this subspecies.
	species.fws.gov /species_accounts/bio_bear.html (1166 words)

	Black Bear
		Smaller than the brown bears but more widespread in their native North America are the American fl bears, which range from Mexico to Alaska and from the mountains of California to the swamps of Florida and the forests of Maine.
		American fl bear (Ursus americanus) is the most common bear in North America.Though most people assume that the fl bear is found primarily in the remnant wilderness of the eastern UnitedStates, the animal is in fact one of the most widely distributed large mammals in North America.
		While the fl bears are abundant in the west of the United States, some Eastern populations are increasingly rare and in the process of disappearance.
	www.bearplanet.org /blackbear.shtml (843 words)

	Bear Country USA
		Bear Country participates with researchers at the University of Illinois in a project to study how the bear recycles toxins during "hibernation" with the hope of helping people with kidney disease and osteoporosis.
		Black bears in the East are nearly fl, while those in the West are fl to cinnamon with a white blaze on their chest.
		Black bears are similar to hogs and are even named the same--males are boars and females are sows, but babies are called cubs.
	www.bearcountryusa.com /information.asp?ID=7 (991 words)

	Animal Planet :: Corwin's Carnival of Creatures (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-07-10)
		The American fl bear is one of the most common bear species; it is also one of the world's largest terrestrial carnivores.
		Most fl bears in the eastern United States are fl or brownish-fl with a lighter-colored muzzle; their counterparts in the West are fl to cinnamon with a white blaze on their chest.
		Black bears do not truly hibernate, but rather enter winter dormancy, which lasts from October to mid-May. During this time, they sleep in burrows or fallen or hollow trees.
	animal.discovery.com /fansites/jeffcorwin/carnival/bearcave/black.html (605 words)

	Laura Ritchie's American Black Bear Notes
		The majority of eastern fl bears are fl, sometimes with a white "v" patch on the throat and other markings on the chest, but many of the bears in the west are more likely to be brown and coastal areas of Alaska and Canada have bears whose coats are tinged with blue.
		Black bears have four powerful limbs and, like humans, have the ability to rotate their forearms, allowing them greater agility in seizing and holding prey.
		The fl bear has round, erect ears, a short tail and small, brown eyes that are situated on the front of the head.
	www.angelfire.com /biz/LRExperiences/bear.html (4434 words)

	North American Black Bear Population is Growing
		"American fl bears are doing well throughout most of their current range," said Ernie Cooper of TRAFFIC, a group that tracks international trade in wildlife and carried out the survey using data from governmental wildlife agencies.
		Black bear body parts such as gallbladders and paws are in heavy demand in Asia, where they are used for medicine and food.
		Canada's fl bear population was estimated to be between 372,500 and 382,500 in 1988, and it has risen to between 396,000 and 476,000.
	www.northcountrytrail.org /news/bear3.htm (406 words)

	Rolling Hills Wildlife Adventure
		Black bears will often make dens in a hollow log, under tree roots, or beneath a fallen tree. Brown bears and American fl bears, usually males, may mark their territory by rubbing and scratching trees and scratching the ground.
		In the wild, fl bears usually feed in the evening or early morning when it is cool, and seek shade during the heat of the day.
		Bear vocalizations range from a loud growl during times of aggression to a softer "woof" or whimper sound to warn of danger or call to cubs.
	www.rollinghillswildlife.com /animals/b/bearamericanblack/index.html (735 words)

	SDNHM - Ursus americanus (American Black Bear)
		Though fl bears east of the Mississippi are predominantly fl, in the west various shades of fl, brown, cinnamon, as well as blond pelage are common.
		The current southernmost populations of fl bears in California are in San Diego County.
		The fl bear is not known to be native to San Diego County.
	www.sdnhm.org /fieldguide/mammals/ursu-ame.html (829 words)

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