| September 3, 2004 | -
Brown bears were terrorizing a village in Transylvania.
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Reuters
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| February 25, 2004 | - Two polar bears in the Singapore zoo turned green.
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CNN
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| December 14, 2003 | - New Jersey's big bear hunt ended with 328 confirmed kills.
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Guardian
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| October 17, 2003 | - A bear barged into a hospital in Japan.
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Ananova
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| October 2, 2003 | - A new study found that large predators such as polar bears strongly dislike being caged in zoos.
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New York Times
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| October 2, 2003 | - Six thousand three hundred New Jersians applied for permits for the state's big upcoming bear
hunt.
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New York Times
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| March 18, 2003 | -
Under pressure from animal-rights groups, the British Army agreed to look into alternatives to the black bear fur used to make the caps of Her Majesty's Foot Guards.
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| February 18, 2003 | -
Smith & Wesson introduced its biggest handgun ever, a .50-caliber Magnum powerful enough to bring down a charging bear.
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| February 26, 2002 | -
Tokyo's Ueno Zoo staged a drill wherein a man dressed up in a bear suit pretended to be an escaped polar bear; he was captured in a net and taken away.
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| January 1, 2002 | -
The United States Forest Service approved a large mine, which will produce 10,000 tons of copper and silver a day for 35 years, in a Montana wilderness area that provides habitat for protected bull trout and a population of grizzly bears.
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| December 25, 2001 | -
A Russian man was eaten by a bear.
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| December 18, 2001 | - A baby bear named Snickers escaped from a Minnesota animal park and broke into a farmhouse because he was feeling lonely. “He was just looking for people to hug him,” the bear's owner said. “He's a huggy bear.”
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| October 9, 2001 | - In Iran, a missing 16-month-old baby was found after three days in the den of a female bear; the bear apparently breast-fed the baby, who was in good health.
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| June 5, 2001 | - Some brown bears started a wildfire in Alaska.
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| June 5, 2001 | - In Canada, a black bear killed a man.
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| October 17, 2000 | - Advanced Cell Technology, a company in Worcester, Massachusetts, announced that it had cloned an Asian guar; the embryo was gestating in an Iowan cow. The company plans to clone the extinct bucardo mountain goat (from cells collected before the last surviving goat died) as well as the giant panda (using black bears as surrogate mothers).
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| September 5, 2000 | - The Forest Service issued a bear warning in some areas of the Rockies; due to a recent drought, bears are hungrier than usual.
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| September 5, 2000 | - Some 7,000 Chinese
bears were being farmed for bile on 247 licensed bear farms: farmers insert a tube into a live bear's gall bladder to extract the bile, which is sold as a traditional medicine.
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| July 25, 2000 | - A bear killed and partially ate a man in Alaska.
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