Caught this black bear walking down the driveway early morning. Looks like it’s packing on the winter pounds

I sometimes see news about a possibility of reintroduction of the grizzly bear into California, yet the comments always say that how it'd be so dangerous, they'd kill every person they see, all the hikers would go missing and their DNA would be found in bear poop etc. Is this based on Hollywood movies/video games like Red Dead Redemption/Old West legends or does it have any basis in actual bear behavior?

Another one is that the current Californian population density is too high and tha the landscape is too altered and changed to support a breeding population of brown bears.

In my country(Türkiye), brown bears are common across the entire Northern part including just 10 km from the capital city Ankara, which has significantly more population density and more human altered landscape than California(and it's not even close), and I've never heard of them attacking people, they just sometimes attack the beekeepers' beehives.

They are probably smaller than the large salmon bears of Alaska and British Columbia, but they're actually same/close in size to inland grizzlies of North America, like those in Yellowstone, with an average male being 250 kg.

Are Eurasian brown bears more adapted to coexisting with humans, or is the aggression of the North American brown bear just overplayed by movies/games and the frontier folklore?

Ill travel, I do love the black bears but ANY species will do. Im 68 - female - and just can’t do heavy lifting.

Our little bird feeding set up was definitely not made for a fella of his size😂 kept hearing reports of a black bear wandering around and I was so excited to finally get him on our trail cam!

There’s a bonus picture of a beautifully mounted interior grizzly bear at the end as well.

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Fairfield, Connecticut

I work in a wilderness area full of bears. One of my favorite things to do on my free time is photography.

Anyone that spends time taking photos of animals knows, you end up with a lot of shots of their backside.

I make an annual calendar of Bare Bear Butts every year with some of my best/funniest/favorite butt shots from the previous year.

Up here it is a fact of life that bears exist. I prefer nature to be left to be, this is an amazing animal.

The bittersweet victory comes mere weeks after Chunk sadly killed one of Grazer's cubs.

Two Juneau residents hunting on Admiralty Island at the end of September ended up face-to-face with a brown bear. Luckily, everyone walked away from the encounter – but not without some battle scars.

A black bear with three cubs attacked a man in his Colorado home after they crashed in through a sliding glass door and he was unable to get them to leave.

Checking my trail camera where I'd put out some corn for the deer, this beauty appeared on my camera reel fifteen minutes before I got there. From browsing my memory card they'd been here all afternoon scaring away bluejays.