An unwelcome plastic collar was removed from around the neck of a 2-year-old bear. Once upon a time there was a black bear in the Michigan woods. He roamed, hibernated, searched for food and did whatever else a bear does in the woods.

A plastic lid certainly wasn't on this bear's list of bare necessities. Biologists were thankfully able to safely remove the lid from around the cub's neck after nearly two years of it being stuck.

The bear had “significant scarring and an abscess on its neck,” according to a June 18 news release.