{"id":787226,"date":"2026-07-27T11:42:31","date_gmt":"2026-07-27T11:42:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/787226\/"},"modified":"2026-07-27T11:42:31","modified_gmt":"2026-07-27T11:42:31","slug":"bear-3-cubs-spotted-in-ridgedale-mo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/787226\/","title":{"rendered":"Bear, 3 cubs spotted in Ridgedale, Mo."},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text text-start\">RIDGEDALE, Mo. (KY3) -A bear and three cubs were spotted in Taney County Saturday morning.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text text-start\">Footage captured the bears walking across a street off Oakview Drive in Ridgedale at around 7:30 a.m.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text text-start\">Randy MacDowall was on his way to work when he saw the bears and started filming. He said he\u2019s been living in the Ridgedale area since 2013 and has never seen a wild bear in person, let alone four.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text text-start\">MacDowall mentioned a friend of his possibly saw the bears in the area earlier this week but was not able to film them at the time.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text text-start\">Although it was an exciting moment, MacDowall said he wants everyone to keep their distance if they see wild bears and leave them alone.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text text-start\">To report a correction or typo, please email <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ky3.com\/2026\/07\/25\/bear-3-cubs-spotted-ridgedale-mo\/mailto:digitalnews@ky3.com\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">digitalnews@ky3.com<\/a>. Please include the article info in the subject line of the email.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 KY3. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"RIDGEDALE, Mo. (KY3) -A bear and three cubs were spotted in Taney County Saturday morning. Footage captured the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":787227,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51],"tags":[79,201],"class_list":["post-787226","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\/787226","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=787226"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/787226\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/787227"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=787226"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=787226"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=787226"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}