We assumed that all released bears found in conflict situations with humans were identified by ear-tag or collar. We calculated the percentage of bears involved in conflicts for each species by dividing the number of bears found in conflict situations by the total number of bears released for that species. We used the Pearson’s x2 test to test the hypothesis that captive-reared American black bears found involved in postrelease conflicts with humans were more likely to come from motherswithaknownhistoryofconflictactivity.Wealsoused logistic regression to test the influence of age at orphaning, time in captivity and release weight on probability that an American black bear was in a human conflict after release and selected the model with the lowest AIC value.