Reply #43: Except where there's overpopulation, there's always trouble.

[sybylla]

In the fight for food, they break into homes, they forage in towns, they cause damage to property and vehicles who run into them on the road. And they are just as likely to attack people when they are hungry as when they are protecting their young.

I'd much prefer black bears to grizzlies as neighbors. Regardless, whether they are 150 lb juveniles just kicked out of the nest or 500 lb elders camping out at the dumpster next to the chicken shack down the street, black bears don't make good neighbors.

Fortunately this cousin of pigs are mighty tasty.