Black bear and moose sighted in Needham and Wellesley "It was a wild Monday in the suburbs west of Boston, with reports of a black bear ambling down by the Charles River in Needham and sightings of a 600-pound moose racing through backyards and across streets in Wellesley."
"Wellesley Police worked with Environmental Police to track the moose for hours from the area of Reeds Pond, where the moose reportedly went swimming, to Lexington Road and Shirley Road."
"It’s black bear mating season, said Zimmerman, and the young males are striking off in search of their own patch of land to call home. 'They’re searching for a mate,' he said. 'They’re like teenagers.'"
The (a?) black bear was caught in Brookline today. "An Environmental police officer, operating from a cherry picker, successfully shot the bear with a tranquilizer dart when the animal was an estimated 50 feet up in the tree. After being shot, the animal climbed even higher into the tree, but once the drug took effect, the animal plummeted to the ground."
And to prove that everything is more complicated than it appears at first:
"Officials at the scene said the bear survived the fall. The animal was immediately placed on 480 pounds of ice shavings picked up from Brookline Ice and Coal. When the bear is tranquilized, it’s body temperature goes up and may be a problem for the animal’s health, said Reggie Zimmerman, spokesman for the Massachusetts Executive Office of Energy and Environmental Affairs."
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