Although nobody wants to run into a bear alone in the dark, most meetings between black bears and people go well.

In this context, no differentiation between black and brown bears is needed.

The relationship between black bears and grizzlies is strained at best.

Fights between bears were common, and the subject of much ritual.

A number of hybrids have been bred between American black, brown, and polar bears.

He added that recent encounters between humans and bears had made a hunt necessary to "manage the black bear population."

Already, conflicts between grizzly bears and people are taking place along the developing river corridors west of Cody.

In the Churchill region, however, many alliances between bears are made in the fall.

It had published pamphlets since the 1940s, but saw the need for a film exploring the troubled relationship between bears and humans.

In encounters between bears and humans, experts say, it is almost always the bear that loses.