{"id":232254,"date":"2025-10-22T16:05:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-22T16:05:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/232254\/"},"modified":"2025-10-22T16:05:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-22T16:05:07","slug":"wild-bear-pays-surprise-visit-to-bear-enclosure-at-california-zoo-he-was-very-polite-california","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/232254\/","title":{"rendered":"Wild bear pays surprise visit to bear enclosure at California zoo: \u2018He was very polite\u2019 | California"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">A wild bear in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/california\" data-link-name=\"in body link\" data-component=\"auto-linked-tag\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">California<\/a> has broken into a zoo and paid an unexpected visit to the bear enclosure.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">In a Facebook post, the Sequoia Park Zoo in Eureka in the northern part of the state <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/SequoiaParkZoo\/posts\/pfbid02EWaVPPELFA8ykeZzsEwyHdzeX6JxGziNAR1UMqxvb1U7Gn9ZoboHYJEi68JjxGkSl\" data-link-name=\"in body link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">said<\/a> its staff were conducting a routine inspection of part of the complex when they spotted a wild American black bear leaning on a gate and looking in at three captive black bears in their enclosure.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">\u201cThe wild bear did not appear aggressive and was observed interacting with [the captive bears] through their habitat fencing,\u201d the zoo said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">\u201cAt no point did the wild bear enter any animal habitats and, after a brief exploration of the enrichment items around the night house, the bear was safely coaxed back into the woods through a service gate.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">The bear is believed to have come from the wooded 60-acre (24-hectare) Sequoia park directly behind the zoo.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">\u201cOverall, he was a very polite visitor,\u201d the zoo <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/SequoiaParkZoo\/posts\/pfbid02EWaVPPELFA8ykeZzsEwyHdzeX6JxGziNAR1UMqxvb1U7Gn9ZoboHYJEi68JjxGkSl\" data-link-name=\"in body link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">added<\/a>. \u201cHe stayed on the boardwalk path, kept two feet on the ground and didn\u2019t try to climb over the railings!\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A wild bear in California has broken into a zoo and paid an unexpected visit to the bear&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":232255,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[49,48,66,323],"class_list":{"0":"post-232254","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\/232254","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=232254"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232254\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/232255"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=232254"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=232254"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=232254"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}