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WILD NEW JERSEY: National Geographic: Please DO Feed the Bears, Biologist Says

National Geographic: Please DO Feed the Bears, Biologist Says

A wild black bear eats sunflower seeds last spring at the Wildlife Research Institute in Ely, Minnesota.
Photo credit: Frank Lawatsch

It flies in the face of conventional wisdom, but one solution to control nuisance black bears in the United States may be to offer them snacks, one biologist says. Especially in the western United States, black bears will often break into cars, homes, and campsites in search of food. And as humans increasingly move into bears' habitats, more bear-human interactions have been occurring, experts say.