On February 23, 2022, CNN reported a crying news that a black bear in the south Lake Tahoe area of Sacramento, California, began to loot the warehouse where food was stored in residents' homes from the fall of 2021, eating so much that even the whole winter did not stop, and residents were miserable and vowed to "send it away".
Human neighbors are so well fed that American black bears break into 33 houses!
On Feb. 18, when the South Lake Tahoe Police Department received an alarm call that a black bear was looking for food in a home in the Tahoe Keys neighborhood on Catalina Avenue, Sullivan and Wallace officers asked the owner to slap the wall to scare the bear away and not confront it head-on.
The bear broke into a fenced hut, destroyed the door inside, "ransacked" everything he could eat, and left satisfactorily, and the South Lake Tahoe Police Department could not count the number of times it had received such an alarm call, and it did not even need to be verified, which must have been the American black bear named "Tank Hank" who had done a good job.
American Black Bear: Tank Hank
This is an American black bear, distributed in 39 states in the United States, adult American black bears are about 1.8 meters tall, females are about 4-150 kg, males are about 60 to 225 kg, 75% of the diet is plant-eating food, hunting animals although not much, they are very powerful, the power of the forefoot swing attention to shoot an American red deer.
The black bear arrived here in the summer of 2021, when it was in the process of eating heavily, because the fat in the summer and autumn seasons allowed it to survive the long winter, but somehow the bear found a shortcut, that is, to rummage through the garbage cans in the residential area, and the food thrown by the Americans just gave the bear a good place to find food.
But obviously the garbage can not meet the high calorie demand of the American black bear, do not know which "burglary" process found that Americans have a food pantry, the result is out of control, began to frequently break into the home "loot" human those delicious food, in front of this giant bear, the American wooden house is simply the same as the paper paste, a slap on the shattered, into which looted and then flew away.
So the locals "affectionately" called it "Tank Hank", friends who had never encountered it loved it, and friends who had encountered it ransacked hated it to the bone, starting in the summer and autumn, the local police station received more than 100 alarm calls about Tank Hank, breaking into at least 33 houses and wreaking havoc.
In early October, a California woman was bitten by a black bear that had entered the kitchen rummaging for food;
The most recent "burglary" occurred on February 18, which is the police response at the beginning of this article;
So the residents of these destroyed communities vowed to send it away, and applied to the authorities for a bear trap in the hope of catching it, while the wildlife department intended to shoot it, because the American black bear seemed to have a strange problem, it did not hibernate, because at normal times, the American black bear would go into hibernation from late autumn and would not wake up until the next spring, so in the summer and autumn the black bear would eat heavily to increase fatten to cope with the winter.
When the local residents learned that they were going to dispose of it, they asked whether it could be placed in a place where it could be "lived and worked in peace" and hoped that the authorities would not kill it.
Why doesn't this American black bear need to hibernate?
Hibernation is a period of time when many animals spend lack of food and harsh climate, the animal's body temperature decreases, the heart rate and breathing slower, the metabolism decreases to reduce energy consumption to spend this time, generally occurs in winter, there is also summer sleep in summer, the state is similar.
Mammals such as bears will eat a lot of food before hibernation to increase the proportion of fat, such as the human body will become fat storage when it consumes a lot of energy, which is the body's instinct, and bears consume these fats to spend the day when they go into hibernation during the long winter, and when they wait until the next spring, their weight can be reduced by 15% to 27%.
Bears need to find a warm shelter cave to hide in when hibernating, squirrels and animals such as mice and skunks are also in this habit, but the hibernation of animals like bears is somewhat different from other animals, and the hibernation of bears can only be regarded as deep sleep, and their body temperature changes not as drastically as other animals, but the heartbeat will decrease.
Several factors in whether bears hibernate are temperature, sunshine, and food scarcity, such as bears in the U.S. mainland, which is relatively far north of Maine (not counting Alaska), which will freeze to death or starve to death if they do not hibernate, but not necessarily in the south, especially if they can find food every day.
And California is around 30 degrees north latitude, and Jiangsu is similar, the bear here is not sure whether to hibernate, like this tank Hulk can find food in the residential area every day, every day can get a lot of calories, so it comes out every day to harass the people. (End)