MIAMI — Officials with the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission mentioned Saturday that a bear witnessed roaming all over a Homestead neighborhood has been captured and “relocated.”
In an electronic mail to CBS News Miami, a spokesperson for the agency stated the bear experienced been trapped and moved out of the neighborhood even though she did not say the place the animal was taken.
A homeowner’s digital camera captured illustrations or photos of the bear as it walked all-around the Isle of Oasis region, in the vicinity of the Campbell Travel exit off the Florida Turnpike, not much from a wooded location.
Other people reported seeing the bear in the region as nicely, including online video taken from a cellphone of the animail in the place of SW 147th Avenue and Pacific Push Thursday around 10 p.m.
No injuries were being described.
According to the FWC, black bears can be observed virtually any where in Florida, they prefer a mixture of flatwoods, swamps, scrub oak ridges, bayheads, and hammock habitats.
The space they roam in search of food items, h2o, and sufficient address is identified as a house selection.
They are additional commonly observed in the central and southwest portions of the point out and are hardly ever spotted in South Florida.
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