oil on maple panel, 41 cm x 60 cm Painted from a photograph this winter taken near Otter Creek in the Sleeping Bear Dunes. Colors were mixed from Ultramarine blue, Manganese violet, Turner yellow, Chinese Lake, white and black. Non...

The cost of keeping wild animals in captivity is always more than the price of admission to a zoo or amusement park. Just ask the woman who lost two of her fingers after trying to feed a caged black bear at a Wisconsin zoo last week...

New Jersey's Fish and Game Council voted to allow the state's first black bear hunt in five years.

Dog wounded in New Jersey black bear attack. Image credit:News 12, video. Without getting into what constitutes a black bear "home invasion" or "pet attack" incident, all would agree that black bears frequently in the yard, tippi...

Dog wounded in New Jersey black bear attack. Image credit:News 12, video. Without getting into what constitutes an officially recorded bear "invasion" or attack "incident," all would agree that black bears frequently in the yard,...

Four Tet's Kieran Hebden has gotten his hands on Pantha du Prince's "Stick to My Side", the Panda Bear-featuring new single from Pantha's Best New Music album Black Noise, and it sounds awesome. The bright synth pulses running throu...

Four Tet's Kieran Hebden has gotten his hands on Pantha du Prince's "Stick to My Side", the Panda Bear-featuring new single from Pantha's Best New Music album Black Noise. Stream the Four Tet remix above, and purchase it ...

An Asiatic black bear at Lincoln Park Zoo in Manitowoc, Wisc., bit off all or parts of four fingers from the hand of a 47-year-old woman Friday after she went past barriers and tried to feed the animal, police said. Tracy Weiler and...

As has become my tradition as owner/administrator of the Black Bear Blog, whenever I reach some kind of remarkable milestone, I post up something to commemorate it. The milestone I have reached is the 5,000th post to this blog and ...

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Photo by Asha Mines German electronic producer Pantha du Prince's song "Stick to My Side"-- from his recent Best New Music'd album Black Noise-- features the artist known as Panda Bear on vocals. And the video features people (who a...

Leonardo DiCaprio joined Bar Refaeli on a yacht off the coast of Cabo yesterday. The swimsuit model kicked off her bikini time in a skimpy black suit over the weekend as Leo arrived to take in the gorgeous sights for himself. Leonar...

Just over a week ago I posted a press release here at the Black Bear Blog that announced the delivery to Maine’s Governor John Baldacci (D-Maine) by State Rep. Peter Edgecomb (R-Caribou) a petition seeking action by the state to do ...

In the new video from death-obsessed Best New Music band the Antlers, a girl in a cloak drops the ball. Literally-- she's carrying a big black ball in a carriage and then she loses her grip. Luckily, the New York band are there to h...

A girl dressed in rags drops an ominous black orb in this eerie video from the NYC indie rockers the Antlers for the song "Bear", one of the highlights from their excellent 2009 debut, Hospice. ...

A black rat snake (Elaphe obsoleta), photographed near Bear Mountain in New York. Read the comments on this post......

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Moscow Mayor Yury Luzhkov says he will never permit a gay pride parade in that city. "It's high time that we stop propagating nonsense discussions about human rights, and bring to bear on them the full force and justice of the...

The New Jersey Fish and Game Commission is working on a black bear management plan that would include a hunt in the fall of 2010. According the the U.S. Sportsman’s Alliance, a meeting is scheduled for Feb. 9, 2010. The new manageme...

This story deserves the recognition of a Black Bear Blog Golden Horse Excrement Award. (I don’t just give these to anybody.) Wolves are such a wonderful animal. As a matter of fact, they are so wonderful they actually have been give...