00:05American black bears are the most common bear in North America and can be found from
00:09northern Mexico through the US to northern Canada. They are smaller than polar bears
00:17and brown bears which also makes them the smallest of North America's three bears.
00:24Black bears are about three feet tall at the shoulder when standing on all fours and up to
00:28seven feet tall when standing upright on two legs. Males can be up to 60% bigger
00:35than females and weigh up to 660 pounds. Black bears are usually black as their name
00:43suggests but their coats may also be brown, cinnamon or even white. This coat variation
00:52means they're occasionally mistaken for brown bears especially where the ranges
00:57of the two species overlap. To help tell them apart the US National Park Service notes that
01:05black bears do not have a pronounced shoulder hump like brown bears do and their shoulders
01:09are lower than their rumps when standing on all fours. Black bears also have straighter faces,
01:17taller ears and shorter more curved front claws. They use these claws to scale trees and access food.
01:27Black bears are omnivores and most of their diet is made up of insects, nuts, berries, grasses and other vegetation.
01:40They are not active predators and only hunt mammals such as young deer when the opportunity presents itself.
01:47But a black bear is no slouch either and can run at up to 35 miles per hour if needed.
01:55Bears often avoid encounters with people and do not normally harm humans.
02:00However, they occasionally attack to defend their cubs or food and on extremely rare occasions kill humans to eat them.
02:09Even so, bears have far more reason to fear humans.
02:14Black bears in the forest they lived in rapidly declined after Europeans settled in North America
02:19and they are still regularly hunted by humans today.
02:24However, greater protections has enabled the bear population to slowly recover.
02:32American black bears are not currently threatened with extinction
02:34and their population is estimated to be twice as large as all other bear populations on earth.
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