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I was on the air doing the I-95 Morning Show when an app chat message appeared from our wildlife correspondent Jen The Zookeeper Kotkin. In anticipation of the warmer weather she wrote:
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State environmental officials said they euthanized a mother black bear after it entered a home in Bloomfield.
The agency said that, as public safety is its "top priority", under the Black Bear Response protocol, "an attack on a human is a category 4 response, meaning humane euthanization of the bear."