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Miles Rhodes,
Wine Taster
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Dark red to black cherries hang in clusters; these fruits were used by Native Americans and are an important food of black bears.
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John Carthy,
Gun Shop Sales Assistant
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A bear is capable of causing bodily injury, but the North American black bear should not be equated with bears such as the Grizzly or the Polar Bear.
American black bears are federally-listed as a threatened subspecies in Louisiana, eastern Texas, and southern Mississippi and four additional states black bears are state-listed as rare, threatened or endangered.
KIND OF BEAR: American black bears live in the United States along with brown or grizzly bears and polar bears.
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Bori Gonbutoren,
Reindeer Herder
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North American predators such as Mountain Lions, Black Bears, Red Wolves, Bobcat and Lynx will inhabit separate naturalistic exhibits, while a giant aviary will house vultures as well as such raptors as Eagles, Hawks and Owls.
North American Prairie ZooLab - Meet some of our own home-grown animals that might be rare or extinct in Kansas as you examine a black bear skull, grizzly bear fur, deer antlers, and even feel the quill of a porcupine.
Haunting the ancient moss-laden forests along the Pacific coast are white-coated bears that are a subspecies of the North American black bear.
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Josh Hogan,
Commander
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Winnie was an American black bear who was deposited at the Zoo in 1914 by a Canadian lieutenant at the start of the First World War.
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Ben Werner,
Student Newspaper Editor
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The experience of the Black Panther Party, targeted by the FBI and Federal Government in its infamous Cointel Operation during this era of intense opposition to racial injustice and the War in Vietnam, is an chapter in American history that bears careful review.
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Athena Mondale,
Spiritual Consultant
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Black Bear Ursus americanus (ur-sus:Latin word for bear; a-mer-i-ca-nus: american) Physical Description - Head and body 5 - 6 feet long, shoulder height 2 - 3 feet.
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Shane Kelly,
Bar Tender
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The American Black is one of eight species of bear found throughout the world on every continent except Australia and Antarctica.
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Sasha Prevette,
Kindergarten student
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The main types are brown bears, American black bears, Asiatic black bears, panda bears, polar bears, sun bears, sloth bears, and spectacled bears.
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