{"id":229109,"date":"2026-03-20T21:11:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-20T21:11:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/229109\/"},"modified":"2026-03-20T21:11:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-20T21:11:08","slug":"bears-waltz-out-of-winter-torpor-into-sunny-california-spring","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/229109\/","title":{"rendered":"Bears &#8216;Waltz&#8217; Out of Winter Torpor Into Sunny California Spring"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Bears living at the Oakland Zoo have begun to emerge from their torpor season, an annual winter sleep <a href=\"https:\/\/www.threads.com\/@oaklandzoo\/post\/DPE0ZPlEYy8\/technically-its-a-torpor-a-lighter-form-of-hibernation-that-bears-experience-rat\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:similar to;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;similar to&quot;}\" class=\"link \">similar to<\/a> hibernation, keepers said on Friday, March 20.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">This footage shows a pair of bears \u201cwaltzing\u201d together in their enclosure in California\u2019s Bay Area on Friday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">\u201cSpring has arrived, and what more perfect way to celebrate than with a bear waltz!\u201d the zoo said on X. \u201cThe bears are waking up out of torpor, so you\u2019ll see them a lot more as the weather gets warmer!\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">According to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/OakZoo\/posts\/naptime-for-truckee-the-bears-are-easing-back-into-torpor-their-version-of-hiber\/706516328173643\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Oakland Zoo,;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;Oakland Zoo,&quot;}\" class=\"link \">Oakland Zoo,<\/a> black bears, grizzly bears, and brown bears go into a deep sleep called torpor during the winter months. While hibernation typically lasts for longer periods of time and involves \u201cmore intense physiological changes,\u201d bears are able to wake from torpor \u201ceasily and frequently,\u201d according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.turpentinecreek.org\/natures-dormant-states-the-difference-between-hibernation-and-torpor\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:wildlife experts.;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;wildlife experts.&quot;}\" class=\"link \">wildlife experts.<\/a> Credit: Oakland Zoo via Storyful<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Bears living at the Oakland Zoo have begun to emerge from their torpor season, an annual winter sleep&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":229110,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[1088,104073,7,9,8,104071,104072,12294],"class_list":["post-229109","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-california","tag-black-bears","tag-brown-bears","tag-california","tag-california-headlines","tag-california-news","tag-grizzly-bears","tag-hibernation","tag-oakland-zoo"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229109","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=229109"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229109\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/229110"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=229109"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=229109"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=229109"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}