If you would like more information bears in national parks, including photos, videos, and links to other parks with bears, visit Bears. The American black bear is an omnivore (eating both plants and animals) and frequently eats berries and meadow plants, claws at logs or digs for insects, dangles from sugar pine branches to go after cones, and forages for acorns in the fall. A male black bear weighs an average 300 to 350 pounds, and smaller females weigh 150 to 200 pounds. Black bears can range in color from cinnamon brown to black, and some can have light blazes on their chests.
American black bear
American black bear