Ursinology (BEARS) with Chris Morgan
Ologies with Alie Ward
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Is There a Black Bear?
The world would be overrun with ersonologists if there was a promise that one day, even for 15 minutes, you got to snuggle a baby bear. How big is a black bear? So smaller than a brown bear with females around 150 pounds and males topping out usually around 250 about the size of an English Mastiff,. But there are outliers who have topped 800 pounds, which is huge for a black bear. One gentle giant black bear named Duffy weighed 690 pounds and then lost over 400 pounds in a winter, just snoozing himself scrawny.
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