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A young black bear that made its way Thursday afternoon into a park located between several busy streets in downtown Dartmouth, N.S., has been rescued.

The bear was first spotted at around 5 a.m. near Sullivan’s Pond, said Butch Galvez, a wildlife technician with the Department of Natural Resources, and was later located about a kilometre away in the Dartmouth Commons. People spotted it clinging to a tree at around 11 a.m. 

“Black bears sort of follow their nose,” said Galvez. “A young male like this, this time of the year they’re sort of in super eating mode and they’ll wander. So through the night, the bear made it into an area, and once the traffic got busy, the bear went …