The Black Bear by Schleich is realistic and beautifully detailed. Schleich animals are hand painted and this black bear has gorgeous black and tan details. The animals created by Schleich are a true reflection of nature on a smaller scale. This listing is Schleich item #14316

The Schleich company was founded in 1935 as a supplier to the plastic industry. The now famous Schleich figurines first came to life in the 1960's. Since the 1980's, Schleich has been crafting animal figurines as well. Now you any your family can enter the fantastic play world on a smaller scale, with animals both wild and domestic, dinosaurs, and knights.

Here is some interesting information about Black Bears:

The American black bear (Ursus americanus), also known as the cinnamon bear, is the most common bear species native to North America.

The black bear lives throughout much of the continent, from northern Canada and Alaska south into Mexico, from the Atlantic to the Pacific. This includes 39 of the 50 U.S. states and all Canadian provinces. Populations in the east-central and southern United States remain in the protected mountains and woodlands of parks and preserves, though bears will occasionally wander outside the parks' boundaries and have set up new territories, in some cases on the margins of urban environments in recent years as their populations increase. Although there were probably once as many as two million black bears in North America long before European colonization, the population declined to a low of 200,000 as a result of habitat destruction and unrestricted hunting culls. By current estimates, more than 600,000 are living today on the continent. [1]

"American black bear." Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia. 13 Nov 2006, 07:58 UTC. Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. 14 Nov 2006 <http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=American_black_bear&oldid=87500640>.