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Big bear Hank the Tank breaks into dozens of Lake Tahoe homes, eludes capture
Headline from Independent Tribune
Hank the Tank strikes again. The 500-pound black bear has damaged more than 30 Lake Tahoe properties and last week broke into yet another home.
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The 500-pound animal is a "severely food-habituated bear," meaning that it "has lost its fear of people and is associating people with access to food," California officials say.
SOUTH LAKE TAHOE, Calif. (AP) — Hank the Tank strikes again. The 500-pound black bear that has damaged more than 30 properties around Lake Tahoe last week
The 500-pound animal is a "severely food-habituated bear," meaning that it "has lost its fear of people and is associating people with access to food," California officials say.
Wildlife authorities are trying to trap a 500-pound black bear — known as Hank the Tank — that has broken into dozens of homes in South Lake Tahoe, Calif. Residents, the state’s wildlife service and the nonprofit BEAR League are deciding what to do with the enormous bear that has
Hank has “forcefully entered” at least 28 homes in the Lake Tahoe area, earning him the status "conflict bear," and an advocacy group is worried he will be euthanized once captured.
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