A black bear living in the Santa Monica Mountains — recently tagged and given the nickname BB-12 — apparently likes to relax the same way that a lot of Southern Californians do: with a ...

The only known black bear in the Santa Monica Mountains, and the first to be discovered living there in decades, was struck and killed by an oncoming vehicle on Highway 101 in Ventura County ...

The park service initially tagged the bear, known as BB-12, in April in the Santa Monica Mountains. He was the first of his kind to be captured and GPS-tracked in the range, officials said.

Biologists recently captured and tagged a young black bear in the western part of the Santa Monica Mountains near Los Angeles, marking a first for researchers eager to understand how such a large ...

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