{"id":914417,"date":"2026-10-03T07:46:07","date_gmt":"2026-10-03T07:46:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/914417\/"},"modified":"2026-10-03T07:46:07","modified_gmt":"2026-10-03T07:46:07","slug":"14-bears-captured-and-killed-at-montana-home-amid-rise-in-human-bear-encounters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/914417\/","title":{"rendered":"14 bears captured and killed at Montana home, amid rise in human-bear encounters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-apitype=\"text\" data-contentid=\"O2MZCFRUCZBENPVGXRXXOYT5I4\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-heFNVF wpds-c-heFNVF-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\" dir=\"null\">Wildlife officials found and killed 14 black bears last week on a property in Montana. A cub was also found and relocated for possible placement at a zoo, officials said in a <a href=\"https:\/\/fwp.mt.gov\/homepage\/news\/2026\/sep\/0929-black-bears-removed-during-investigation-at-residence-near-bozeman\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"https:\/\/fwp.mt.gov\/homepage\/news\/2026\/sep\/0929-black-bears-removed-during-investigation-at-residence-near-bozeman\">statement<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p data-apitype=\"text\" data-contentid=\"JNGPU7M7CBGH7MZCNEQ4ZS5PHA\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-heFNVF wpds-c-heFNVF-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\" dir=\"null\">\u201cThese bears were unafraid of humans and stopped relying on natural foods,\u201d said Montana game warden Captain Josh Leonard. \u201cIt\u2019s very unfortunate they had to be euthanized.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Wildlife officials found and killed 14 black bears last week on a property in Montana. A cub was&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":914418,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[64,63,128,338],"class_list":["post-914417","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wildlife","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-science","tag-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/914417","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=914417"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/914417\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/914418"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=914417"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=914417"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=914417"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}