who never hunted the animals or spoke of them to fur trappers. A white bear steps out of the tree cover onto a streamside rock. Set against the dark palette of the rain forest, the bear's fur ...

“Brown bear sightings in mid-winter in mountain forests in eastern Hokkaido began about 10 years ago,” said Toshio Tsubota, a professor of animal medicine at Hokkaido University’s Graduate ...

They typically live in forests ... animals, black bears roam large territories, though they do not protect them from other bears. Males might wander a 15- to 80-square-mile home range. When winter ...