Bears eat a lot of bugs and grubs that they find in old tree trunks. They also eat a lot of berries, plants, and roots. A bear will also eat small animals like rats, rabbits and raccoons. A large hungry bear will eat big things like pigs and deer. Human population is the problem, people are moving in and pushing the bears out and out is actually into suburban areas.
Bears become a problem when they realize people have food.
The bears in the area of our cabin in the cypress forest found out that we have food stored in our cabin. We loaded up all our camping gear onto our swamp buggy and headed out to the cabin. As we got close to the cabin we saw that a bear had been in the area. We past by three cabbage palms that had been shredded by a bear. Bears love to eat cabbage palms.