To be quite honest I don't have any expierence with bears, I don't believe that I have ever seen one in the wild despite the fact that I did grow up in a rural area and there were black bears about. I imagine that if I had ever run across a bear I would have died of a heart attack before the bear could have looked cross eyed at me! This book was an informative source as to the different species found in North America their home ranges ,their varied diets and their fast disappearing habitats.