"Nutritional stress does play a role. It's just that it doesn't appear to be the role that we thought it was, just driving ...

SALEM, Ore. (KTVZ) – Now that cooler autumn weather has replaced those hot summer days, Oregon's bears have begun their annual fall eat-a-thon, known as hyperphagia, to prepare for winter. And that ...

Last fall, black bears roamed in Dolores in noticeable numbers, rummaging through trash cans, walking along Central Avenue ...

With polar bears spending more and more time ashore in the Arctic because of melting sea ice from global warming, the chances of human-wildlife conflicts are growing. That brings in Polar Bears ...

The Connecticut Department of Energy and Environmental Protection is urging residents to be safe and follow proper guidance to reduce the likelihood of conflicts with black bears this fall amid a rise ...

RALEIGH, N.C. (WTVD) -- North Carolina Wildlife Resources Commission (NCWRC) is advising people that black bears' eating behavior is peaking now through the fall. They significantly increase their ...

During hibernation, brown bears spend up to six months lying almost completely still, without eating, drinking or exercising.

Change is in the air, at least possibly for black bears and how they eat. In preparation for the coming winter months, the eating behavior of black bears changes, according to the N.C. Wildlife ...

Becky Bohrer / AP It’s the time of year when Oregon’s black bears enter hyperphagia. That means they’re eating as much as they can before entering hibernation in the winter. Beth Quillian is with the ...

Mish and Lucy, two European brown bears, gobbled down an impressive amount of honey during their brief escape Wildwood Devon/Facebook Two European brown bears escaped their enclosure at the U.K.'s ...

Cows, pigs, chickens – these are staple foods in diets worldwide. Yet there’s something peculiar about human eating habits: we almost never eat other carnivores. Despite a wide variety of animal ...

Apennine brown bears have been living alongside humans in central Italy since at least the era of the Roman Empire. This prolonged proximity to people seems to have affected the isolated creatures’ ...