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[102] [61] Male bears play no role in raising young. Infanticide, where an adult male kills the cubs of another, has been recorded in polar bears, brown bears and American black bears but not in other species. [104] Males kill young to bring the female into estrus. [105] Cubs may flee and the mother defends them even at the cost of her life.
[111] [112] Brown bears practice infanticide, as an adult male bear may kill the cubs of another. [92] When an adult male brown bear kills a cub, it is usually because he is trying to bring the female into oestrus, as she will enter that state within two to four days after the death of her cubs. [92] Cubs may flee up a tree when they see a ...
For instance, with many species of bear, the female will often drive a male off soon after mating, and will later guard her cubs from him. It is thought that this may be due to the fact that too many bears close to one another may deplete the food available to the relatively small but growing cubs. Monogamy may be social but rarely genetic.
The Museum of Life and Science announced Tuesday it now has a 9-month-old American black bear cub found abandoned in the wild last spring. The 88-pound male cub joins the Durham museum’s three ...
The biggest wild American black bear ever recorded was a male from New Brunswick, shot in November 1972, that weighed 409 kg (902 lb) after it had been dressed, meaning it weighed an estimated 500 kg (1,100 lb) in life and measured 2.41 m (7 ft 11 in) long. [60]
There are more bears living along North Carolina's coast than in the mountains. The recovery of the black bear in the state is one of North Carolina's real wildlife success stories.
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Cubs also face threats from wolves [141] and adult male bears. Males kill cubs to bring their mother back into estrus but also kill young outside the breeding season for food. [107] A female and her cubs can flee from the slower male. If the male can get close to a cub, the mother may try to fight him off, sometimes at the cost of her life. [142]