Black Bears

Black bears are North Americas most widely spread Bear species, that span all over the country. Forests being their main home, they tend to be very good at climbing trees, which helps when it comes to foraging for food and escaping from hostile bears, or hunters. Black bears are omnivores that forage for roots, berries, leaves, insects and small animals such as Badgers, raccoons and Possums. Much like their Grizzly cousins they are being forced from their natural habitat, due to deforestation which means they are now in search for easy ways of getting food, which means they can sometimes been seen in small rural towns looking through peoples trashcans and breaking into cars and homes in search for their next meal.

“Solitary animals, black bears roam large territories, though they do not protect them from other bears.” (http://animals.nationalgeographic.com/animals/mammals/black-bear/ ). Males are known to wonder 15-80 square miles from their ‘home’ land. This can be in search for food or during mating season in search for female Black bears. During winter Black bears go into hibernation inside their dens, which are made out of caves, burrows in the earth or sometimes high up in of the ground in a hole in the side of a tree, which they slowly feed of their body fat that they’ve built up during Spring and Summer.