{"id":41620,"date":"2025-07-05T20:33:10","date_gmt":"2025-07-05T20:33:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/41620\/"},"modified":"2025-07-05T20:33:10","modified_gmt":"2025-07-05T20:33:10","slug":"bear-captured-after-being-spotted-wandering-around-warminster-twp-pennsylvania","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/41620\/","title":{"rendered":"Bear captured after being spotted wandering around Warminster Twp., Pennsylvania"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao MvWXB TjIXL aGjvy ebVHC \">WARMINSTER TWP., Pa. (WPVI) &#8212; Authorities in Warminster Township, Bucks County say a black <a class=\"zZygg UbGlr iFzkS qdXbA WCDhQ DbOXS tqUtK GpWVU iJYzE \" data-testid=\"prism-linkbase\" href=\"https:\/\/6abc.com\/tag\/bear\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">bear<\/a> that was spotted wandering around the community on Saturday morning has been captured.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Police said they were called to the area of Evergreen and Juniper in the Speedway section of the township for a report of a bear sighting.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The Pennsylvania Game Commission was then called in to help in the search.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The bear was eventually located in the backyard of a home in the 300 block of Olive Street.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Officers were able to capture the bear without incident.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Warminster Twp. police shared this photo of a bear that was caught on Saturday, July 5.\" class=\"hsDdd NDJZt sJeUN IJwXl vBqtr KrDt itslR zFTjo hakZw HlUVI \" data-testid=\"prism-image\" draggable=\"false\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/16969896_070525-wpvi-warminster-bear-caught-police-photo-img.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Warminster Twp. police shared this photo of a bear that was caught on Saturday, July 5.<\/p>\n<p>Warminster Twp. Police Dept.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">&#8220;The bear will be relocated to a more conducive location for his growth and prosperity,&#8221; the department <a class=\"zZygg UbGlr iFzkS qdXbA WCDhQ DbOXS tqUtK GpWVU iJYzE \" data-testid=\"prism-linkbase\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/WarminsterPD\/posts\/pfbid05J9s1ZNwwmsgezd3Pi5beg6NJftGS4yv1DtQDqoDzDeuiiySvzoB6yuHWoj4hK6Ml\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">wrote in a Facebook post<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">According to state officials, bears occupy over three-quarters of Pennsylvania.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC eTIW sUzSN \">Sightings have been confirmed in every single county. But, the Pennsylvania Game Commission said that because the southeastern corner of the state lacks sufficient forest habitats, bears seen here are mostly transient.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2025 WPVI-TV. All Rights Reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WARMINSTER TWP., Pa. (WPVI) &#8212; Authorities in Warminster Township, Bucks County say a black bear that was spotted&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":41621,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[32824,159,67,132,68,837],"class_list":{"0":"post-41620","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wildlife","8":"tag-32824","9":"tag-science","10":"tag-united-states","11":"tag-unitedstates","12":"tag-us","13":"tag-wildlife"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114802541710736283","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41620","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41620"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41620\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/41621"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41620"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41620"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41620"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}