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 ...

P 22 is *** symbol. He's, he's uh like yogi bear. He's not your average mountain lion. When he would go across the camera, he had ***, er, of confidence of almost being regal for his story to ...

Secure your doors and roll up your windows, there's a black bear bandit and a rare litter of five cubs breaking into cars in the Great Smoky Mountains. A momma bear was caught breaking into a ...

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