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500-pound black bear relocated after living near Tennessee univeristy
Tennessee wildlife officers captured and relocated a 500-pound black bear final week after it had been discovered residing close to a college.
The bear was situated close to Tusculum College, a personal Presbyterian college close to Greeneville in northeast Tennessee, and “had change into habituated to human and unnatural meals,” the Tennessee Wildlife Assets Company stated in a Fb put up Thursday.
Officers stated the bear had been within the space for a couple of years and often accessed rubbish, birdseed and pet meals. The bear had been extra lively prior to now 12 months, leading to property injury across the space.
The company determined to lure the bear “because of the rising potential for detrimental interplay” with people, however the bear evaded seize after altering its journey route.
However it wasn’t lengthy earlier than the bear went again to its outdated course, and wildlife officers situated and tranquilized the bear. With the assistance of the Greeneville Fireplace Division, the bear was put in a transport cage and brought to a distant a part of the close by Cherokee Nationwide Forest.
An grownup male black bear can attain as much as 660 kilos, however 500 kilos is in regards to the common measurement, according to the International Association for Bear Research and Management.
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Tennessee has had a growing black bear population since it became a protected species in the 1930s. Most of the bears live near the North Carolina and Kentucky border, according to the agency.
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