{"id":235129,"date":"2025-10-19T00:28:12","date_gmt":"2025-10-19T00:28:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/235129\/"},"modified":"2025-10-19T00:28:12","modified_gmt":"2025-10-19T00:28:12","slug":"bear-captured-at-apartment-complex-released-back-into-natural-habitat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/235129\/","title":{"rendered":"Bear captured at apartment complex released back into natural habitat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The bear <a href=\"https:\/\/mynews4.com\/news\/local\/bear-spotted-at-south-reno-apartment#\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"https:\/\/mynews4.com\/news\/local\/bear-spotted-at-south-reno-apartment#\" class=\"themeColorForLinks\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">captured at the Harvest at Damonte Ranch apartment complex <\/a>on Thursday was released Friday morning at Davis Creek Regional Park, Nevada Department of Wildlife officials say. <\/p>\n<p>This area, along with the surrounding Carson Range, is part of the bear\u2019s original home range, so it was released back where it came from. No relocation was done.<\/p>\n<p>Wildlife officials say that the yelling by staff and barking by the dogs after the bear&#8217;s release are part of the aversive conditioning process used to teach bears to associate neighborhoods with a negative experience, helping prevent them from returning to populated areas.<\/p>\n<p>After the bear was released, it climbed a tree and the team backed off to give it space. Once the bear came down, the dogs engaged again, and it eventually ran off into the forest.<\/p>\n<p>The incident began when NDOW officials received a call from the Reno Police Department around 5:30 a.m. on Oct. 16 requesting assistance with a bear in an apartment complex off Steamboat. After about an hour, a biologist safely darted the animal, a two-year-old male.<\/p>\n<p>Authorities say there were bags of unsecured garbage left outside at the apartment complex, which likely drew the bear into the area.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The bear captured at the Harvest at Damonte Ranch apartment complex on Thursday was released Friday morning at&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":235130,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51],"tags":[73440,130406,7438,130407,68300,1058,51257,79,201],"class_list":["post-235129","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wildlife","tag-apartment-complex","tag-aversive-conditioning","tag-bear","tag-davis-creek-regional-park","tag-garbage","tag-nevada","tag-relocation","tag-science","tag-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235129","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=235129"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235129\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/235130"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=235129"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=235129"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=235129"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}