When black bears first emerge from the den in the spring, they'll eat tender grasses and vegetation like dandelions. Donna Feledichuk / Adobe Stock What do black bears eat? You name it, and a black ...

When they do prey on living animals, usually they kill defenseless calves and fawns, sick animals, or old, malnourished animals. They also love raiding nests for eggs, Jonkel says. Coastal brown bears ...

However, review coauthor Miha Krofel, a wildlife research fellow at the University of Ljubljana in Slovenia, says that while bears have been observed killing other bears to eat them, this situation ...