What NC’s Black Bears Can Teach Us
December 01, 2025
From North Carolina’s pocosins to the hollows, black bears shape wild spaces with persistence, silence and strength. Learn more about these quiet giants with Our State Magazine’s Dr. Eleanor Spicer Rice as she travels to the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences to meet with the Head of Mammalogy Dr. Mike Cove.
“I think if you ask my daughter she’ll say, ‘if you don’t bother them, they won’t bother you,’” Cove says. “And I think that’s a good motto to have … around any wild animals.”
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