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Black Bear Annual Food Cycle
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This chart illustrates the seasonal pattern of black bears. They emerge from their dens in the spring; feed on natural foods like berries, acorns and beech nuts in the summer and fall and hibernate during the winter. A bear's life evolves around food.
Graphic from the NEST Technical Note TN-017 entitled Nuisance Black Bears and What to do With Them(PDF Size: 1 Mb).
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