The Chequamegon Humane Association in Ashland, Wisconsin, said the bear had the jar on its head for more than a week.

A bear in western Wisconsin was freed after spending more than a week with its head trapped in a jar, surviving by burning its fat stores and dunking its head underwater to drink through punctures in the jar.

For nearly two weeks, a black bear roamed Wisconsin with a jar stuck to her head. Unable to eat and drink with the jar constricting her breathing, the bear had been spotted multiple times in late July in the Iron River area, according to the Chequamegon Humane Association.