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Originally Posted by Bill Tasker
I'm just curious as to where the bear would be coming from? Are there woods that close to Winifred?
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Black bears can travel long long distances. They take nuisance bears over 90miles away to relocate in a forest and a percentage of them will return to where they were removed.
Some bears don't have a home location and just travel hundreds and hundreds of miles. Males usually travel farther than females and from the look of the size of the one in Winifred, it was probably a male.
All that being said, this area has a ton of trees and patches of forests here and there.
As has been said, developments are encroaching on bears natural habitat so you will see them almost anyplace. Orlando will have some that make the news. Since most travel from dusk to daylight, you don't usually spot them. All though some will travel in the day time and some have jumped into a pools in Orlando to cool off.
Just google black bears and you can find out anything you want to know.