black bears

• plural

  plural

  The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.

  of black bear.
  black bear

  noun

  a medium-sized North American bear, Ursus (Euarctos ) americanus, relatively common in uninhabited mountainous areas, ranging from light brown to black with a straight brown muzzle: northern populations may be gray to near-white.

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black bears

I took a mat next to the American black bears and American badgers, only slightly jealous that the mats next to the large-scale walrus diorama were taken.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 28, 2026

Elliott spent hours watching through the kitchen window of a local resident's home, hoping to photograph black bears that frequently pass through the garden.

From BBC ● Aug. 25, 2026

Smaller black bears, meanwhile, are common across large parts of Japan, including on the main island of Honshu, and are responsible for most of the attacks.

From Barron's ● May 8, 2026

California is home to an estimated 60,000 black bears, the highest population estimate in the contiguous United States.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 9, 2026

There are at least 500,000 black bears in North America, possibly as many as 700,000.

From "A Walk in the Woods" by Bill Bryson

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