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Black bear male eating acorns in the Smokies in the fall and winter black bears have to gorge themselves on acorns and walnuts so they can sleep for 3 months. The moma bears the females need a lot of acorns to make enough fat so they can reproduce cubs in the spring .
I used a canon mark11 7 d with a sigma 160 600 mm lens
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Black bear eating
Photographer: John Ball
Rose@7509 | Dec 3, 2022
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