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Separate lives

Relaxed and content for the time being, yearling bears will soon be leaving their mother and going off alone. Yet close observation recently gave rise to a recent discovery that shortly before they leave the cubs suckle from their mother. Another recent observation has been that black bears groom each other to remove parasites, behaving in away that’s similar to primates.

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