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SALEM, Ore. (KTVZ) – Now that cooler autumn weather has replaced those hot summer days, Oregon's bears have begun their annual fall eat-a-thon, known as hyperphagia, to prepare for winter. And that ...

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Bear activity has increased in the last two months. That's because bears living in the Sierra Nevada enter hyperphagia during the fall months. Hyperphagia is "a natural phase when their appetites go ...