The Black Bear is a species of animal found in Red Dead Redemption 2.
Description[]
Black Bears are smaller in size than the Grizzly Bear. Their diet is omnivorous, consisting of salmon, honey, fruit, small mammals and carrion.
Their fur is soft, with dense underfur and long, coarse, thick guard hairs. However, the fur is not as shaggy or coarse as that of a Grizzly Bear.
Black Bears will flee from the player and are passive, but are still marked as hostile on the mini-map, and will spook the player's horse.
Location[]
- Big Valley (northwest)
- Northwestern Bayou Nwa
- Dakota River
- Forested areas of Roanoke Ridge
- Grizzlies East
- Tall Trees
- Aurora Basin (east of)
Challenges[]
- Rank 5 of the Master Hunter Challenges requires the player to skin three black or grizzly bears.
Tips[]
- A Long Scoped Rifle or a Bow with Improved Arrows are recommended when hunting this animal.
- Their claws and fat can be used for crafting and their meat is added to the player's inventory in the form of Big Game Meat.
- Players can craft a Bear Fringed Shotgun Chaps and a Bear Grenadier Hat at the Trapper using a Perfect Black Bear pelt, and cook the meat from hunting it.
- Black bears will always flee from the player, despite being marked as hostile in-game.
- One notable exception is during the Online mission "A Bitter Means to a Bitter End"; any black bears encountered during this mission can maul the player, as shown in this video.
- Like other wildlife in Butcher Creek, black bears suffer from mange and other horrible ailments (including being unskinnable due to pelt being worse than poor) from the lake's arsenic and lead poisoning.
Gallery[]
American black bear profile
Dead Black Bear
Arthur Morgan posing in his Bear Hunter Outfit with a Black Bear
Black Bear in Bayou Nwa
The Removed Compendium Image for the American Black Bear
Arthur's drawing of an American Black Bear
John's drawing of an American Black Bear
Trophies/Achievements[]
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30
 Bronze
 Skin every species of animal in Story Mode.
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20
Bronze
Study every animal across all states in Story Mode.
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