{"id":101148,"date":"2025-08-22T06:00:08","date_gmt":"2025-08-22T06:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/101148\/"},"modified":"2025-08-22T06:00:08","modified_gmt":"2025-08-22T06:00:08","slug":"black-bear-walking-around-fgcus-campus-lee-county","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/101148\/","title":{"rendered":"black bear walking around FGCU&#8217;S campus | Lee County"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A black bear was spotted on Florida Gulf Coast University&#8217;s campus by an IT worker as he was leaving for the night.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>This was reported Tuesday evening.<\/p>\n<p>Instead of using the dining hall, the bear chose to rummage through the garbage for a late-night snack.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Black bear sightings are extremely common in Florida, especially for this time of year as it is the end of hibernation season, and food supply is needed and abundant.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/myfwc.com\/wildlifehabitats\/wildlife\/bear\/living\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">FWC<\/a> reminds Florida residents to stay vigilant in your neighborhoods and to take necessary steps to protect yourself such as securing garbage and not leaving food out.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A black bear was spotted on Florida Gulf Coast University&#8217;s campus by an IT worker as he was&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":101149,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51],"tags":[7438,65643,4168,79,201],"class_list":{"0":"post-101148","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wildlife","8":"tag-bear","9":"tag-florida-gulf-coast-university","10":"tag-fwc","11":"tag-science","12":"tag-wildlife"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101148","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=101148"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101148\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/101149"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=101148"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=101148"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=101148"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}