He’s no LeBron James, but there’s a bear that’s been caught on camera in Metro Vancouver getting a little air.<\/p>\n
More of a Le-Bruin James, if you will. Or Cub-e Bryant. Or\u00a0Wilt Cham-bear-lain.<\/p>\n
In short, the bear can jump.<\/p>\n
Calvin Brown spotted the bear on Saturday, Aug. 30. The Maple Ridge resident tells V.I.A. he thought it was his neighbour at first, picking some pears, and went to get a bowl to see if he could snag a couple.<\/p>\n
“I came back and [the bear] was jumping for the low-hanging fruit,” Brown tells V.I.A.<\/p>\n
His house is near the forest, and bears are not an uncommon sight, but it was the first time he’d seen a bear jumping for fruit in the tree; it seems past visits may have meant the fruit is growing a little higher.<\/p>\n
“Basically, over the years, bears have ripped off full limbs to get fruit,” says Brown.<\/p>\n
Also in the past, a mother bear had sent her cubs up the tree to get some sweet snacks.<\/p>\n
Brown, who’s familiar with the local bears in his neighbourhood, shot the video while safely on his side of the fence; while the bear could jump a little, it wasn’t going to vault the fence anytime soon. At the same time, he kept his dogs in when he realized it was a bear next door.<\/p>\n
“I let him pick his fruit and be gone,” says Brown.<\/p>\n
Unfortunately, he wasn’t able to watch the visitor for too long, just long enough to get the shot.<\/p>\n
“I wish I had watched him a little more,” says Brown. “It was pretty hysterical.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"He’s no LeBron James, but there’s a bear that’s been caught on camera in Metro Vancouver getting a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":116022,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[49,48,66,323],"class_list":{"0":"post-116021","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wildlife","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-science","11":"tag-wildlife"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116021","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=116021"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116021\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/116022"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=116021"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=116021"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=116021"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}