LC, have you seen this bear?

[Ma Huang Sor]

God, he got all the way to Wellfleet? I'm telling you he'd have tried to swim to Martha's Vineyard if he got to Ptown.

[Jimbone]

Cape Cod's bear snagged in Wellfleet

Obviously he was going to the drive-in!!

[Lady Cop]

Cape Cod's bear snagged in Wellfleet

Obviously he was going to the drive-in!!

he caught a double feature, Brother Bear and Gentle Ben. and had some popcorn too.




June 12, 2012
BOSTON--State officials announced today that the black bear tranquilized and captured early Monday evening in Wellfleet was safely released by 9 p.m. in central Massachusetts.

The young male, weighing about 180 pounds, was let go near other bears and was monitored overnight, state officials said. The bear was in good condition and tagged on the ear prior to release to allow it to be identified in the future.

[Duchess]

Good job!

[Lady Cop]

he might come back, he's everywhere! had to be tranked right outside Boston, fell out of a tree.

boston herald

A wayward black bear’s amazing journey back and forth across Massachusetts was all about his quest for love, said wildlife experts, who tell suburban Bay Staters they’d better get used to backyard bruins ... because more will be coming.

“He’s just a guy trying to make his way in the world,” Environmental Police spokesman Reginald Zimmerman said about the fine young specimen of Ursus americanus that was spotted up a tree in Brookline’s tony Chestnut Hill yesterday, after his travels took him all the way to Provincetown, out to the Worcester County woods, and now even deeper into the wilds of western Massachusetts.

“We want to make sure he’s in an area where it’s suitable for bears,” Zimmerman said, after the bear was hit with a tranquilizer dart and shipped west ... again.

Suburban Boston isn’t out of the woods yet. The 180-pound, hirsute Romeo — thought to be about 21⁄2 years old, may well try to return to the area again before mating season ends late summer.

“We knew that it was a possibility ... they generally do have a sense of direction,” said Thomas O’Shea of MassWildlife.

The state’s bear population — estimated at fewer than 100 in the 1970s — now stands at 4,000 and grows by 8 percent annually, said O’Shea. “People in the more suburban areas are going to have to learn to live with them. We do know bears are moving eastward because there’s a lot of unoccupied territory for bears.”

Bears have been reported in Dedham, Mendon, Medway, Medfield, Needham and Walpole in recent weeks, similarly on the hunt for territory and mates, O’Shea said. Brookline’s bear spent last winter hibernating in the Middleboro area, emerging to raid a chicken coop in April before swimming across the Cape Cod Canal. He was sighted in Province-town before he was captured in Wellfleet on June 12 and moved to Worcester County.

“He covered so much ground when he was here, through so many neighborhoods, that one shouldn’t be surprised for his ability to roam,” said Orleans resident Terry Thalman, who saw the bear in his yard. “Maybe he misses the Cape. Everybody loves the Cape.”

Brookline resident Sherry Leventhal watched the ursine drama unfold yesterday outside her home at Hammon Street and Pine Road, where officials packed the tranquilized bear in a pickup truck.

“How many times do you see a bear in Brookline?” Leventhal said. “I never thought I’d have a day with a black bear in my yard.”


air bear!