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>> dubois: and mink the bear's incredible journey, thousands of miles to get back home. >> a bear's home range is a bear's home. >> dubois: good evening. i'm maurice dubois. this is our western edition. the trump administration wanted to ask every person in the country whether he or she is an american citizen as part of the 2020 census. but today, in a 5-4 decision, the supreme court blocked that. the president vows to keep fighting, and there's a lot at stake. the census bureau predicts millions of immigrants would go uncounted if the question were on the form, and some states could lose seat...

Try to return. a bear's home range is a bear's home. >> reporter: black bears, he says, are much smarter than people think. >> they recognize their own image. >> reporter: that's self- awareness? >> yeah, that's self-awareness. >> come on, guys. >> reporter: kilham usually ilkes in eight cubs a year, but this year, it's more than 80, due to a severe food shortage that forced mama bears to search for food far away. some never returned to their cubs. the day we were there, two more starving cubs arrived. as for mink, this time, she doesn't appear to be causing problems. kilham says that's becaus...

I have an unusual sound for you. can you name this? if you've ever spent time in new england, you'll have a leg up on everybody else here, but are you ready? all right. hit it. i know that sounds like bad news, but it's not. that is not the sound of a dying animal or an animal in distress. that is the sound of a happy fisher cat. the fisher cat is not actually a cat, it's in the weasel family. it's a large carnivorous arboreal tree-dwelling weasel. they're one of the only things rascally enough to know how to eat a porcupine. they are known to be pretty ferocious. if you want to talk more abou...

We said, hey, let's get some good pictures. >> reporter: and within a heartbeat... >> reporter: this cell phone video captured the moment after a jaguar at the wildlife world zoo near phoenix reached through the fence, seriously wounding leanne's arm. >> i was in the wrong for leaning over the barrier, but i do think that maybe the zoo should look into moving their fence back. >> reporter: now this is where the incident took place. as you can see, there is only a few feet between the jaguar's enclosure and this waist-high barrier. now, the jaguar at the center of the incident has been removed ...

The hospital, we're still getting further -- >> she yelled, screamed, made lots of noise. the bear dropped her daughter. >> reporter: her dad says the girl went outside because she thought she heard dogs barking in the backyard. black bears can weigh up to 600 pounds and run as fast as 30 miles an hour. authorities setting up traps and using dogs to find the bear. warning residents to be on alert. >> do not run from a bear. don't try to climb a tree. a bear can do those things much faster than we can. >> reporter: if the bear is caught, officials say it will have to be euthanized. officials sa...