When black bears first emerge from the den in the spring, they'll eat tender grasses and vegetation like dandelions. Donna Feledichuk / Adobe Stock What do black bears eat? You name it, and a black ...

Adirondack black bears eat a wide variety of foods. Approximately 90 percent of their diet is plant material consisting of not less than 30 different plant species. The remainder is primarily insects, ...

They are the only bear species in the state, and, despite the name, their fur ranges in color from blond to black. It’s been ...

Bears have been described as "big, black eating machines" because foraging for food is a near constant activity except in winter. Adequate food resources are important for growth, reproduction, and ...

(Meanwhile, black bears eat acorns, chestnuts, walnuts, beech nuts, and countless other varieties across their range.) Grasses and forbs are crucial to a grizzly bear’s diet. Denita Delimont / Adobe ...

A black bear has come to eat. It's spawning season. Egg-heavy fish glut the streams of Gribbell Island, a small piece of Canada's Great Bear Rainforest, one of the largest coastal temperate rain ...

“So, if there’s a carcass that’s available, they just take the opportunity to eat it.” He and his coauthors found that in polar bears and brown bears, most instances of cannibalism are infanticide, ...

Colorado wildlife officials were forced to capture and relocate a young black bear which refused to go into hibernation - because it was too busy eating. Last month the young bear, likely older ...

A black bear eats hawthorn berries. Large animals can disperse seeds over great distances, but many large seed dispersers are extinct or in decline.