Japan’s Cabinet yesterday approved a bill that would allow hunters to shoot bears in populated areas at their own discretion after human encounters with the wild animals hit record levels. Across the ...

Employees at a supermarket in Akita ... The police eventually captured the bear by luring it into a trap filled with honey, rice, bananas, apples, and bread. The animal was tranquilised and ...

AKITA—A bizarre standoff between police and a marauding bear holed up in a supermarket here finally ended with the animal’s capture on Dec. 2, two days after it broke in and mauled an employee.

A brown bear cub has been rescued by rangers at a national park in Turkey, after it consumed a hallucinogen. Mad honey, or deli bal in Turkish, is a type of rhododendron honey. Footage shows the ...