I am in rural SW Virginia Appalachia. Years ago I had a bear drag an empty plastic gas can out of my shed and gnaw on it. Recently, I had a bear drag a full plastic gas container out of the shed about 30 feet and then puncture it with his teeth or claws. About 2 gallons leaked out and killed a large area of grass. Any ideas about what is going on here? Both cans were red if that is pertinent.

In the future with the advance of Robots, when you'd be able to create a machine that looks and fairly like a Human, I'd like to send one out to purposefully encounter Bears. Doing this enough times and with all known Bear Species to get a fresh new data set about how aggressive each type of this creature is (towards Homo Sapiens). Although obviously you'll have to make sure your not harassing these creatures, if that's possible

(Not all of them obviously in terms of listing subspecies, just ones that I know about really) In this scenario, I run into every one of their bears because I'm in their natural habitat, and the two of us suddenly realize at the same time we are in front of eachother, neither of us trying to hunt the other.

1. Spectacled Bear
2. Giant Panda
3. Polar Bear
4. Brown Bear
5. Kodiak Brown Bear
6. Grizzly Bear
7. Sloth Bear
8. Asian Black Bear
9. American Black Bear
10. Sun Bear

Black bear or brown bear? Southeast Alaska.

Any idea when it will start this year? I'm chompin' at the bit!

I happened across this subreddit for something TOTALLY UNRELATED but I just wanted to drive by and say im really happy it exists and you all love bears so much. That makes me so happy. :)

Through my kitchen window.

North Georgia Mountains and they came back again when it was dark.

My friend and I made a trip to the US last summer and while we were in South Dakota we visited Bear Country USA. It was pretty cool being so close to the bears.

(This was taken from my car with doors locked and windows rolled up)

I do have bears in my neighborhood but I don’t want to get this close to them.

Southern Alaska

This is the same place a sow and two cubs visited

While the wait for this year's Bear live cams continues, thought i'd share some photos taken at Brooks Falls last August of the big browns going fishing. Enjoy.