{"id":850959,"date":"2026-08-08T19:30:25","date_gmt":"2026-08-08T19:30:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/850959\/"},"modified":"2026-08-08T19:30:25","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T19:30:25","slug":"black-bear-plays-with-mermaid-dolls-in-backyard-pool-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/850959\/","title":{"rendered":"Black Bear Plays With Mermaid Dolls in Backyard Pool (Video)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In a new viral video, a young girl looks on as a bear hangs out in her family\u2019s backyard pool, playing with her mermaid dolls. The family lives in the greater Los Angeles area, clearly somewhere near mountains and wild spaces, and they seem to be used to this type of visitor to their pool.<\/p>\n<p>[RELATED: <a href=\"https:\/\/outdoors.com\/black-bear-casually-walks-into-office-building-video\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Black Bear Casually Walks Into Office Building (Video)<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/bearlywildla\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">bearlywildla<\/a> Instagram account shares videos of the family\u2019s backyard bear visits. This one stands out because a bear is playing with the young girl\u2019s toys. Although the animal is brownish black, it\u2019s a black bear\u2014the only bear species currently native to California.<\/p>\n<p>Watch a bear play with mermaid dolls in a backyard pool below (or see it <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/reel\/Dba2zqkpwRW\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">here<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>Header stock image by Tfilm\/Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In a new viral video, a young girl looks on as a bear hangs out in her family\u2019s&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":850960,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[17611,49,48,66,323,5488],"class_list":["post-850959","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wildlife","tag-bear","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-science","tag-wildlife","tag-wildlife-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/850959","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=850959"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/850959\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/850960"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=850959"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=850959"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=850959"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}