Black bear, black bear, what do you see? The end of Cape Cod looking at me
He is now a wanted man — or bear, to be exact. The black bear that state officials want to relocate from Cape Cod turned up in Provincetown, at the tip of the Cape, again this morning but then disappeared back into the woods, authorities said.
State wildlife officials have said they’re ready to remove the itinerant animal from the Cape now that he’s reached its end and has nowhere to go. The officials say they’ve been preparing to trap or tranquilize the bear in the interest of public safety and then relocate him to an environment with other bears.
“We’re keeping an eye out and we’re keeping track of any sightings,’’ Shelley Hall, chief of natural resources at the Cape Cod National Seashore, said today. “Any kind of management approach will be coordinated with the state.’’
The bear was spotted Wednesday in the national seashore. He first appeared Cape Cod on May 27.
The bear is thought to be the same one that frequented much of Southeastern Massachusetts last summer. Officials say it probably got to the Cape by swimming across the Cape Cod Canal.
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