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Weirdly warm, dry winters lead black bears to halt hibernation
2014-01-23 07:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
CNN: They barely slept. That's the case for an unusual number of black bears in western Nevada, where an abnormally warm and dry winter has spurred them to halt their hibernation and head out for food. "They may be sleeping under a deck or under a house in a crawlspace, and they will emerge when it is a garbage day and raid some garbage cans and then go back to a sleep for a while," explains Chris Healy, a spokesman for the Nevada Department of Wildlife. Mother Nature can take credit for these bears'...
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