Outdoor Adventures

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A bear will eat what it can catch. They are one of the major predators of whitetail fawns and turkey poults, but don't often prey upon healthy adults. I suspect if there are plenty of young groundhogs available, your bears will eat one if they can catch one. I wouldn't depend upon bears or coyotes to bring the groundhog numbers down to tolerable levels, though. Predators usually don't manage that as well as trapping or hunting.