{"id":781963,"date":"2026-07-24T14:24:45","date_gmt":"2026-07-24T14:24:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/781963\/"},"modified":"2026-07-24T14:24:45","modified_gmt":"2026-07-24T14:24:45","slug":"another-black-bear-sighting-in-west-tennessee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/781963\/","title":{"rendered":"Another black bear sighting in west Tennessee"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"figure-img img-fluid mx-auto d-block\" alt=\"Black bear spotted in Carroll County\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/3LVUO4KW3NF4TF76W427Z2MQJA.png\" width=\"980\" height=\"1308\" \/>Black bear spotted in Carroll County(Nena Rhodes)<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">JACKSON, Tenn. (WBBJ) &#8211; There\u2019s been another bear sighting here in west Tennessee.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Wednesday evening, a black bear was spotted on Damron Road in Yuma in Carroll County at around 7:15 p.m.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The bear seems to be taking a leisurely stroll through the country side.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">This is one of many bear sightings in West Tennessee in the last few weeks.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Wildlife officials say if you spot it, keep your distance, don\u2019t approach it, don\u2019t feed it, and don\u2019t try to snap a close-up photo. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\"> A reminder to secure your trash, pet food, and bird feeders to keep the bear moving.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 WBBJ. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Black bear spotted in Carroll County(Nena Rhodes) JACKSON, Tenn. (WBBJ) &#8211; There\u2019s been another bear sighting here in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":781964,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51],"tags":[79,201],"class_list":["post-781963","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wildlife","tag-science","tag-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/781963","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=781963"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/781963\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/781964"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=781963"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=781963"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=781963"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}