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FORT MYERS — Wildlife officials say they tranquilized and relocated a black bear that was sighted near homes in south Fort Myers.
Sheriff's deputies and residents sighted the 225-pound adult male bear, who spent part of Saturday morning resting against bushes behind a home.
Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission biologists tranquilized the bear with a dart at about 5 p.m.
The bear was safely moved to a more rural area in north central Florida. He was tagged with an identification number, and some fur was taken for DNA sampling. Ice bags were used to keep the bear cool.
Commission spokesman Gary Morse says black bears typically are docile. Morse says the bear could have been forced from his regular home by construction or other "disturbance."
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Why can't we do that with illegals?
#1 Posted by Paradise on May 4, 2008 at 7:25 p.m. (Suggest removal)
That's a good one! Was Bo Bo spotted too?
#2 Posted by The_Brooks on May 4, 2008 at 8:49 p.m. (Suggest removal)
Always the illegals.. even regarding a story that has nothing to do with illegals. The heat and humidity must be baking your brains..
Shamefully ignorant.
#3 Posted by leftubehind on May 5, 2008 at 12:31 a.m. (Suggest removal)
White people were illegal to the Calusa. They were murders of native people. I can't wait untill the oceans flood Naples and the racists are swimming with the gators.
#4 Posted by BackRoadsWine on May 5, 2008 at 3:04 a.m. (Suggest removal)
"White people were illegal to the Calusa. They were murders of native people." Unless history has changed in the last several hundred years, I believe the end of the Calusa empire was by the hands of the Creek and Yemassee Indians. Granted, the Spanish did have a huge involvement in conflicts with the Calusa but they were usually outnumbered and defeated by this civilization. Warring tribes often completely eliminated their enemies.
#5 Posted by ravenhawk on May 5, 2008 at 9:07 p.m. (Suggest removal)
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