Mark the bear, who spent most of his life in a cage at a restaurant, is competing FOUR PAWS' 2nd Annual March Napness bracket competition after entering his first full winter hibernation.

Wildlife officials in Minnesota say they rescued a 6 year-old bear stuck in an icy culvert during hibernation after receiving calls from local residents.

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Bears across the country are waking up from hibernation as spring starts. A file photo of a brown bear coming out of its den. "Males and solitary bears seem to leave first .

Male bears tend to abandon their dens much earlier than female bears with cubs. This article originally appeared on For The ...

Bears hibernate to deal with the lack of food in winter, not because of the cold," Dave Wattles, a black bear and furbearer biologist with Massachusetts Division of Fisheries & Wildlife, said.

State wildlife officials estimate the state's black bear population has remained stable for the past 10 years at 50,000 to 81,000 to animals. Bears can hibernate under decks, in crawl spaces ...

There is one particular bear, bear 480 Otis, who was observed on the webcams to consume. 45 salmon within a five-hour period. [bear vocalizing] [Narrator] And bears are catching these fish. at ...

Superficially, hibernating bears seem passive and inert. For five months or more, they do not eat, drink, urinate, defecate or move, except occasionally to turn over or shiver.

Bears do occasionally hibernate above ground, the DNR reported. It's not unusual. However, in this case, melting snow ended up flooding the bear out of the culvert.