DeereMan95
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I have heard old-timers talk about actual an bear called a hog bear what the heck is it? Is it just a poor looking southern black bear? Have you guys seen one?
I have heard old-timers talk about actual an bear called a hog bear what the heck is it? Is it just a poor looking southern black bear? Have you guys seen one?
I was given a book a few years ago written by a doctor in the mid 1920's who lived in Waycross. He hunted in the Okefenokee a lot. He wrote about there being a difference between the hog bear and the black bear. He said that the hog bear was smaller and brown. He wrote that they were called hog bears because they preferred to eat domestic hogs. He said the black bears were to big and slow to catch hogs but the little hog bear was agile enough to catch the hogs. I gave the book to my brother who does the boat tours at the Okefenokee Swamp park in Waycross. I'll ask him for the name of the book and post it up for you.
I heard of the small brown ones being called Honey bears in west central Georgia in my youth.............
Has there ever been a brown or cinnamon phase black bear seen or killed in the South? I haven`t heard of one.
No such critter exists. If you see a wild bear in Georgia you can rest assured that it's a genuine 100% black bear.
Don’t doubt the existence of hog bears or coywolves around here, 😆