Wildlife biologists first became aware of the bear with a lid around its neck in 2023. They’d been searching ever since.

Wildlife experts finally were able to trap a black bear and remove a large lid that was stuck around his neck for two years.

For at least two years, a Michigan black bear traipsed around the forest, a blue barrel lid wrapped around its neck, as state ...

An unwelcome plastic collar was removed from around the neck of a 2-year-old bear. Once upon a time there was a black bear in ...

Wildlife experts have successfully freed a black bear that had endured two years with a hard plastic lid trapped around its ...

A Michigan bear is feeling much, much better. Wildlife experts finally were able to trap a black bear and remove a large lid ...

Michigan wildlife experts finally were able to trap a black bear and remove a large lid that was stuck around his neck for ...

A plastic lid certainly wasn't on this bear's list of bare necessities. Biologists were thankfully able to safely remove the ...

The bear weighed about 110 pounds, which is standard for a growing 2-year-old black bear, according to DNR. It has ...

While most bears worry about finding their next meal, one spent two years trying to get rid of his last one–or at least the ...