Males are called boars, females are called sows and babies are called cubs. Summer time is playtime for the cubs. But the mother watches for intruders. If one comes near, the mother puts the cubs up a tree and scares the person away. When President Teddy Roosevelt saved a black bear cub from death, a toymaker was so charmed he made the first teddy bear.
Some bears are blueish black.
If you see a black thing that lives in thickly wooded area or dense brushland near a creek, stream or lake, it may be a black bear. Black bear mothers keep their cubs in a tree if a stranger comes and they stay up there for 20 minutes. The black bear and her cubs sleep in a cave. When you go camping just look for a black bear in the woods. You may see them eating nuts, berries, grass and forbs.