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How to identify a black bear. Black bears, the most common bear in North America, can have black fur, but their hair may also range from gray to cinnamon to white, depending on its location ...

Black bears can range from cinnamon brown to bluish grey. The other major difference is size. Black bears usually weigh 200-500 pounds whereas grizzly bears weigh anywhere from 500-1,400 pounds.

People are even warned with a color-coded aphorism about how to behave during a bear encounter: “If it’s black, fight back; if it’s brown, lie down; if it’s white, say good night.” The ...

'Albino Brown Bear' Airlifted to Arctic ... over half of the black bears are brown, cinnamon or blond. "Light-colored fur reduces heat stress ... [email protected]. White Black Bears and ...

, black bears can appear in more colors than any other North American mammals, from black and brown to cinnamon, blond, blue-gray or even white. East of the Great Plains, nearly all black bear ...

Many American black bears are black, but some are blonde, brown or bluish-grey. Thomas Fuhrmann via Wikimedia Commons under CC BY-SA 4.0 Today, cinnamon-colored bears live primarily in western ...

First there were two white cubs with a black mother in 2000, and then a single white cub with a black mother in 2004. That makes this white bear in Michigan the first of its kind outside British ...

If a grizzly or brown bear charges and attacks you, play dead. Panicking or screaming will alarm the bear and cause it to attack. “Cover your head and neck with your hands and arms.

Dan D’Eramo stood between two houses in Northeast Washington, tranquilizer gun above his shoulder, looking up at a tree. At the top: a young black bear. Fuzzy, with perky brown ears. The roughly ...