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Bears In A Conga Line

by Eliot Glazer (Subscribe to Eliot Glazer's posts): Mar 3rd 2010 4:00PM Filed Under: Funny Animal Videos

Depending on whether or not you're the type of person to willfully get up and dance at a wedding, you may or may not love this video featuring bears in a conga line.

Ah, forget it. Who doesn't love bears in a conga line?

Bald Bears Baffle Vets

by Rebecca Quimby (Subscribe to Rebecca Quimby's posts): Nov 10th 2009 1:00PM Filed Under: Exotic Pets, Pets News

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You know that feeling when you've gotten a bad haircut and you feel like everyone's staring at you? Well, the female bears at a zoo in Leipzig are currently experiencing that very sensation. They are bald bears! Check out these pictures from the Daily Mail: Dolores and her ursine friends have lost all their body hair.

The few tufts left around their heads and their wrinkly, rashy skin lend the bears a decidedly unsettling appearance: part lion, part Chupacabra. What's worse, vets can't figure out what's made the bears go bald; they should currently be growing thick, dark-brown fur for winter.

People have been visiting the zoo in droves to get a peek at these unfortunate animals.

Beer-Loving Bear Chills Out in Grocery-Store Cooler

by Rebecca Quimby (Subscribe to Rebecca Quimby's posts): Oct 27th 2009 4:00PM Filed Under: Pets News

You might know that cats like to nap on top of refrigerators, but you probably wouldn't expect a 125-pound bear to try anything similar. Well, shoppers in a Wisconsin supermarket learned a little something about our ursine friends when a black bear made its way into their grocery store and headed straight for the beer cooler. Hey, where else would any self-respecting Midwestern bear go?

According to MSNBC, the bear did its shopping on a Friday night at Marketplace Foods in Hayward, Wis., 140 miles northeast of Minneapolis. It strolled in through the automatic doors and climbed onto the 12-foot-tall shelf in the beer cooler where it hung out for about an hour. Then it went bowling with some of its buddies. Just kidding! Officials from the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources tranquilized and removed the bear. The bear has not yet announced whether it plans to sue for shopper discrimination.

Photographer Snaps Candids of Elusive Spirit Bear

by Eliot Glazer (Subscribe to Eliot Glazer's posts): Jun 30th 2009 12:00PM Filed Under: Exotic Pets

Photo: Steve Kozlowski, BARM / Fame Pictures

Wildlife photog Steve Kozlowski recently got up close and personal with a spirit bear, the rarely-seen off-shoot of the American black bear population revered by native tribes in its home of British Columbia. The bear is, in fact, not albino, but merely the blondest of its kind.

"I emerged from my tent and was confronted with [it]," said Kozlowski. "The bear was startled and it charged at me over a log, its hair up, ears back, snapping its jaws.

Kozlowski escaped safely before setting up a hidden camera to take advantage of capturing the animal in its natural habitat.

And, yes, we know it's crazy, but how much do we want to give that big guy a hug? (...Okay, well when we really think about it...)

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Funny Animal Video: Grizzly Bears Playing Ice Hockey

by Maria Coder (Subscribe to Maria Coder's posts): May 7th 2009 12:00PM Filed Under: Exotic Pets, Funny Animal Videos

Ahhh, Russia. Home of borscht, vodka, and... ice skating bears?

Apparently, grizzly bear ice hockey is something of a national past time in Russia. According to a write up in The New York Times, it works much like traditional hockey, replete with sticks, pucks, numbered jerseys, a jam-packed arena, and a (brave) human referee. Admittedly, the bears spend the bulk of their time looking for the regulation-sized puck, which seems downright diminutive beneath their large legs.

This may be news to us, but bears balancing their burly frames on ice skates dates way back to 1962 when the Moscow Circus on Ice played a bear ice hockey game at New York's Madison Square Garden. Watch these grizzlies get all Gretzky on the ice:

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Brutus the Bear - One Man's Best Friend

by Kristyn Pomranz (Subscribe to Kristyn Pomranz's posts): Apr 29th 2009 4:45PM Filed Under: Exotic Pets, Pets News

Talk about bearing witness!

An 800 pound grizzly bear named Brutus served as best man in naturalist Casey Anderson's 2008 wedding to actress Missi Pyle. But this was not a stunt for pun's sake; Anderson calls Brutus his best friend, even telling Good Morning America, "He gives me unconditional love."

Expedition Grizzly, a new documentary airing on National Geographic on Sunday, May 3^rd at 9pm EST, captures Anderson living among the bears of Yellowstone National Park, charting their lives and man's impact on their environment.

Anderson first befriended the bear in 2002 when young Brutus' wildlife park became overpopulated. Before the cub had to face a lose-lose fate of captivity or death, Anderson adopted him and opened a sanctuary so Brutus could "act like a real bear."

Of course, "real bears" don't usually eat at kitchen tables and swim in lap pools. But according to Anderson, they do experience human-level emotions, sometimes even shedding tears. Anderson's relationship with his furry surrogate son spawned his mission to dispel false "man eater" stereotypes about Grizzlies.

Brutus the Bear: One Mans Best Friend

Best man Brutus gives the bride and groom good luck kisses.

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Brutus joins the Anderson family for Thanksgiving dinner.

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Casey hand feeds Brutus some berries.

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Beneath those sharp teeth, Brutus is gentle as a teddy bear.

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Casey enjoys a dip with his furry friend.

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Don't be intimidated by Brutus' stature; he's a gentle giant.

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Q: Where does a Grizzly bear swim? A: Anywhere he wants!

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Bear hug!

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...and a bear kiss!

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Casey Anderson totes a teenage Brutus.

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