According to the North American Bear Center, black bears are good swimmers and can swim for at least a mile in fresh water.

Its presence here is not for debate: the black bear. Let’s talk about facts here. Black bears – the state mammal – are native to Alabama. A small population has lived in southwest Alabama ...

The BriefA male black bear with a tracking collar was seen Monday morning near Alabama Drive in HerndonFairfax County Animal ...

A sneaky bear in Alabama recently pulled off an impressive feat on its hind legs, recent home surveillance video shows. The footage, which was posted on Facebook, shows a black bear sniffing ...

Early Wednesday morning, A.J. McGee caught this bear taking a dip in Lake Guntersville. While we're not sure if he was cooling off or looking for something to snack on, black bears will readily enter ...

According to the Alabama Wildlife and Freshwater Fisheries Division, the agency is monitoring the black bear population ... and that the animal could be found in every county in the state.

Shooting a black bear in Alabama is a crime ... animals if they are causing damage, and numerous animal removal operations throughout the state are also permitted and trained to remove larger ...

At this time, the black bear population in Alabama does not ... All game animal species and a variety of nongame species are protected by state law. The protections afforded to game species ...

While Alabama’s black bear population is relatively ... the growing number of observations outside the animal’s traditional ranges in the state. In recent years, bear sightings have also ...

While Minnesota does not have an official state animal, several proposed options include the white-tailed deer, the Eastern timber wolf, the black bear, the thirteen-lined ground squirrel ...

(AP) — Biologists and researchers are tracking a trio of black bear ... state, which works with a research team from Auburn University, estimates that from 30 to 35 bears live in northeast ...