The American black bear (Ursus americanus) is North America's smallest and most common species of bear. Black bears are omnivores, with their diets varying greatly depending on the season. Black bears typically live in largely forested areas, but do leave forests in search of food. Sometimes they become attracted to human communities because of the immediate availability of food. The American black bear is listed by the IUCN as Least Concern, due to the species' widespread distribution and a large global population estimated to be twice that of all other bear species combined.
Ten Facts about Black Bear
- They characteristically reside in forests as well as are exceptional tree climbers, on the other hand are in addition found in the mountains as well as swamps.
- n spite of their name, the black bears can be anytime blue-black or else blue-gray, cinnamon, brown, or else even (very infrequently) white.
- Black bears are North America's most familiar and common bears.
- Most of their diet consists of grasses, roots, berries, and insects. They will also eat fish and mammals-including carrion-and easily develop a taste for human foods and garbage. Bears who become habituated to human food at campsites, cabins, or rural homes can become dangerous and are often killed-thus the frequent reminder: Please don't feed the bears!
- They are 5 to 6 ft (1.5 to 1.8 m) long.
- There group are called Sleuth or Sloth.
- There weight is around 200 to 600 lbs (90 to 270 kg).
- The average life span age in the wild is 20 years.
- Female black bears give birth to two or three blind, helpless cubs in mid-winter and nurse them in the den until spring, when all emerge in search of food. The cubs will stay with their very protective mother for about two years.
- Males might wander a 15- to 80-square-mile (39- to 207-square-kilometer) home range.
