While most bears worry about finding their next meal, one in Michigan spent two years trying to get rid of his last one – or ...

A black bear had to undergo a procedure after roaming around Michigan for two years with a plastic lid stuck around its neck.

Wildlife experts finally were able to trap a black bear and remove a large lid that was stuck around his neck for two years.

A black bear in northern Michigan is finally free after spending two years with a blue 55-gallon plastic drum lid stu ...

The bear had somehow shoved his head through a 5-inch-wide hole in a blue plastic drum and although he was able to remove the lid from the drum, he was unable to remove his head from the lid ...

The bear weighed about 110 pounds, which is standard for a growing 2-year-old black bear, according to DNR. It has ...

An unwelcome plastic collar was removed from around the neck of a 2-year-old bear. Once upon a time there was a black bear in ...

Wildlife biologists first became aware of the bear with a lid around its neck in 2023. They’d been searching ever since.

Michigan’s Department of Natural Resources (DNR) said in a June 18 press release that wildlife biologists in Montmorency ...

(Credit: Michigan DNR via Storyful) "The blue plastic lid is similar to those that fit 55-gallon drums used by hunters to bait bear and by landowners to store materials that can attract bears ...