Xina, Utah’s oldest ever black bear, has died at 31

Biologists put a collar on her in 1992. They called her Xina.She outlived other black bears, including many of her own cubs, and the original study of which she was a part. The biologists who tracked her collar believes Xina was 31 and the oldest documented bear in state history when she died last month.“This bear’s the oldest known bear in Utah — period," said Hal Black, a professor emeritus of wildlife biology at Brigham Young University and one of the researchers who tracked