This week a woman hit a massive black bear in Twiggs County and the photos have gotten a lot of buzz on Facebook.
Here's how to stay safe on roads where these animals tend to roam.
A bear is the talk of Beck and Son hardware store in Jeffersonville after Hugh Faulk saw the post on Facebook.
"I was really shocked we had a bear that big in this area, I know there are a lot of bears in this area you know coon hunting at night we have run into small bears but nothing that size," he exclaimed.
Bobby Bond is a wildlife biologist with the Department of Natural Resources.
"Their calling asking how much did it weigh and it weighed 564 pounds and is the largest middle Georgia bear we've weighed to date," he calculated.
When the driver hit the animal early Wednesday morning, the sheriff's office turned it over to Bond and the state.
"We do have a history with this bear," he recalled. "Low and behold the bear that got hit this week was bear 154 from that project and it was caught in 2013 on the Ocmulgee WMA."
Bond explained that bears dying on the roads is more common than you might think.
"We get so many bears hit a year we get one a month at least," Bond said.
The Cochran Short route is the busiest for that.
The woods sit pretty close to the road.
But there are other highways that round out the top three.
"Probably number two is Highway 96 we do get a lot hit near Tarversville and Twiggs and probably number three may be highway 247," he said. "Highway 247 and 341 are pretty close together."
Back at the hardware shop Anne Neely-Beck says she's seen the big animals in her travels.
"I thought I'm glad it wasn't me that hit it going from Jeffersonville to Gordon everyday there are several big bears that I have seen, she said.
The woman who hit the bear is okay, but her car is totaled.
Bond said to take especially care on the roads early in the morning and at night.
Bears are harder to see than deer because they have dark eyes and coats.