The free animal screensaver, American Black Bear, contains 12 images of American Black Bears. The American Black Bear (Ursus americanus) is the most common bear species native to North America. It lives throughout much of the continent, from northern Canada and Alaska south into Mexico, from the Atlantic to the Pacific. This includes 41 of the 50 U.S. states and all Canadian provinces except Prince Edward Island. 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. By current estimates, more than 800,000 are living today on the continent. - wiki American Black Bear is a free screensaver created by RateMyScreensaver.com. Screensaver Picture Count: 12 Free Screensaver Type: Slideshow Credit: All images in this free animal screensaver fall under one of the following licenses: Creative Commons, Attribution ShareAlike 2.0, Attribution ShareAlike 2.5, public domain, GNU Free Documentation License