https://www.cnn.com/2015/01/23/us/bears-overdose-on-chocolate-irpt/index.html

ByJareen Imam, CNNUpdated 5:51 PM EST, Fri January 23, 2015

ShutterstockOfficial: There’s no way to know how much a bear, such as this one, will consume at a bait site.

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Four black bears were found dead in the New Hampshire woods after a chocolate overdose

A hunter was said to have left about 100 pounds of chocolate out as bait

Wildlife experts in New Hampshire are looking at possible ban with such baitCNN—

Four black bears that died in the New Hampshire woods last year overdosed on chocolate bait, wildlife officials said this week.

A necropsy by the University of New Hampshire showed the bears – two adult females and two cubs – died from too much theobromine, a chemical compound in cocoa that’s toxic to animals.

The bears were found dead in September within 50 feet of where a hunter said he placed 90…