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A local news report covers a black bear sighting near Cleveland, as witnesses describe the encounter and a naturalist explains how bears move through the area.
0:01 It was an adrenaline rush, and I think you can only take maybe one of those a year, but I was so pumped. 0:06 I was sweating. 0:07 Sweating because a black bear was roaming through Tina Marison's backyard. 0:10 The, the operator said, what is your emergency? And I said, you're not going to believe this, but they're in my woods here, and she says it's a black bear. 0:16 Tina was too stunned to get a picture, but this is what the bear probably looked like, except real. 0:23 This isn't the first time the bear was spotted. Early Sunday morning, right here along Miles Road, a jogger saw what they thought was a black bear, immediately called police, but when police showed up, 0:32 no sign of the bear. 0:34 A few minutes later, the bear was spotted behind this home in Moreland Hills. 0:38 This recreation identifies how witnesses say the bear escaped into the woods. 0:44 I'm excited to hear that there's a bear, uh, in South Chagrin or the South Chagrin area. 0:48 We hear reports every year or two. 0:50 Cleveland Metroparks naturalist Carly Martin explains that black bears can be on the ground or can climb in trees. 0:57 She's never seen one, but came close. 0:59 Then I found bear scat, which, and it was right after a report that there was a bear in the area. 1:03 Bear scat. 1:04 Scat is the good nature word for poop. 1:06 So we know that a bear scat's in the woods, but should we be concerned? 1:09 We are not bear food. 1:10 And neither are pets, which is good news for the animals. 1:14 I'm good. I'm, uh, faster than a bear. 1:17 And it just wanders through, and then it's gone. You know, we'll hear, you know, reports, you know, it's at this part of the river one day, and then it moves on and moves on and moves on, 1:24 and then we don't hear about it for a year or two. 1:26 But even that is too short of a time for Tina, who still can't believe how close she came. 
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