A female black bear and her cub scour this South Lake Tahoe, California (USA) neighborhood in search of food, and will commonly break into garage doors to get to garbage stored inside. Bears in South Lake Tahoe are growing increasingly bold, even staying awake in the Winter when they should be in torpor due to the year around supply of food to be found in the human built landscape. No bait was used to make this photo. This image is part of a series investigating the intelligence of urban animals and documenting the unique problems urban animals must solve to find nutrition.