Definition of black bear
: the common North American bear (Ursus americanus) ranging in color from brown or typical black to white
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Stars of the park include the big cats (bobcats, lynx, and cougar), roly-poly black bears, and moose that munch all manner of browse, unperturbed by squealing youngsters.
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Originally found in 2004, the tomb’s dozen pits hold the bones of cranes, a lynx, a leopard, and an Asiatic black bear, among other animals.
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Lady Xia also took a leopard, a lynx, an Asiatic black bear, a crane, and several domestic animals with her to her very ornate grave in Chang’an, now the city of Shenheyuan in Shaanxi Province.
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The tomb, which was originally discovered in 2004, also held pits containing a menagerie of animals, including the bones of a leopard, lynx, Asiatic black bear, crane, domestic mammals and birds — and a gibbon.
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Twelve pits in the tomb also yielded bones from an exotic menagerie, including an Asiatic black bear, a leopard, a lynx, a crane—and an unusual-looking gibbon.
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State wildlife experts sedated a small, injured black bear on Ridgewood Road in West Hartford that was hiding under a shed after its paw became ensnared in a trap, police said Monday morning.
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Several younger grizzlies, along with some black bears and a cinnamon, were chained off to the side.
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The Everglades is home to alligators, panthers, black bears, crocodiles and pythons.
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Definition of black bear for English Language Learners
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: a North American bear that usually has black fur
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