A black bear roams a Washington DC neighborhood and causes a frenzy before being captured

The Metropolitan Police in Washington and animal control personnel are scrambling Friday to locate a black bear that was seen up in a tree in a neighborhood of Washington.

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Television stations have shown images of the animal, a Urusus americanusresting on a tree branch near the street Franklin from the American capital.

The FOX5 television station showed a video in which the bear is seen resting on a thick branch in the middle of the smoke of the forest fires in Canadawhich still affects the american northeast.

A Twitter user posted video on her account showing the animal running across the street near the intersection of 14th and Monroe streets.

The police have interrupted the traffic of vehicles and pedestrians waiting for the capture of the animal, and the public school Elsie Whitlow warned families about the presence of the bear a few blocks from that institution.

On Thursday a black bear was sighted in the town of Hyattsville, Marylandnorth of the District of Columbiaand the Maryland Department of Natural Resources had reported the presence of one of these animals in Howard County on Tuesday.

The so-called American black bear is the most common ursid in North Americasmaller than the polar bear and the brown bear and can reach a weight of up to 280 kilograms in males and 180 kilograms in females.

Black bear habitat extends from Canada and Alaska to the plateaus in central Mexico.

According to the platform BearWiseIn June, bears of all ages are actively searching for new territories, food, and mating, rarely becoming aggressive.

Source: Elcomercio

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