Wildlife officials catch 500-pound bear roaming near a Tennessee university

The Tennessee Wildlife Sources Company captured a 500-pound black bear in Greeneville, Tennessee. (Tennessee Wildlife Sources Company)

A 500-pound black bear prowling round a Tennessee college has been captured and relocated, in keeping with the Tennessee Wildlife Sources Company.

The bear was dwelling close to the Tusculum College campus in Greeneville. In a Fb submit, the company mentioned the bear "had turn out to be habituated to human and unnatural meals." The massive bear had made a behavior of consuming rubbish, chook seed, and pet meals, and "ramped up its exercise and property harm final 12 months."

At 500 kilos, the animal is on the higher restrict of a black bear's measurement, in keeping with the company.

Hoping to keep away from a harmful interplay with residents, officers with the wildlife company and Greenville Fireplace Division tranquilized and relocated the bear to a distant space of the Cherokee Nationwide Forest in jap Tennessee.

The Fb submit included footage of officers with the massive tranquilized animal.

Studies of nuisance bears -- these getting too near human property or turn out to be used to consuming human meals -- are likely to rise in April, because the bears emerge from their winter dens and seek for meals, the company mentioned.