A baby black bear who had been roaming around with a plastic lid over its neck for two years has finally been freed.
The two-year-old bear was first spotted in 2023 when it was a small cub on trail camera photos with the lid around its neck in Michigan.
Biologists at the Department of Natural Resources have attempted to locate the suffering cub for years, but the black bear proved elusive.
The cub occasionally popped up on trail cameras over the last two years, just to disappear a day later.
A breakthrough came in May when a resident of Hillman, a town outside of Lewiston with a population under 1,000, spotted the trapped bear.
