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This image taken from a trail camera on Sunday, Oct. 5, 2025, and released by the Arkansas Game and Fish Commission shows a male black bear near a campground in northwest Arkansas where a 60-year-old man was fatally mauled.Â
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Lucas Bond, communications manager with the Missouri Department of Conservation, interviews a hunter who harvested the first black bear in southwestern Missouri on Monday, Oct. 18, 2021. Video provided by the Missouri Department of Conservation
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