WBRE-TV Wild video shows a black bear chasing and then attacking a hiker in the Poconos — with it later testing positive for rabies, according to officials. Victim Andrew Nierer told NBC 10 that ...

Footage showing bear cub’s prolonged assault on camera has folks in Alberta worried about what’s to come this spring.

Thousands of Asiatic black bears live in the wild throughout Japan. Attacks have risen as the borders blur between the bears’ habitats and people’s dwellings. The scarcity of acorns ...

However, like any wild animal, they can become defensive or even aggressive under certain conditions. Pennsylvania averages only one or two bear attacks on humans per year, with most incidents ...

A resident of the town of Jim Thorpe was “aggressively approached” by a black adult male bear on Sunday, Jan. 19, the Pennsylvania Game Commission said in a news release. The animal then “proceeded to ...

Andrew Nierer was doing a grocery run before the football game on Jan. 19 when a strange thing happened. A bear came from the woods, ran across the parking lot of the Jim Thorpe market and bit him in ...

A smaller black bear can be seen on security camera footage from a home, tackling Andrew Nierer and attacking him on the ground before it was shot and killed by a neighbor. "She came and looked at ...

Florida black bears prefer a mixture of flatwoods, swamps, scrub oak ridges, bayheads and hammock habitats, the FWC said. "While wild bears are found in almost half of the state, due to their ...

The bear that attacked a man in Jim Thorpe Sunday has tested positive for rabies, according to the Pennsylvania Game Commission. The test results, commission spokesman Travis Lau said, explains the ...

He added that the bear first attacked two men Suklal Darro (45) and Ajju Kureti (22) while they were collecting wood in the forest on Jailnkasa Hill. In the fatal attack of the wild animal ...

A Carbon County man is recovering after a black bear attacked him on Sunday. Andrew Nierer, of Jim Thorpe, was coming home from a nearby grocery store when the small bear attacked him. Security ...