{"id":69900,"date":"2025-12-13T18:00:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-13T18:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/69900\/"},"modified":"2025-12-13T18:00:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-13T18:00:07","slug":"bears-at-queens-zoo-figure-out-how-to-use-a-branch-as-a-see-saw","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/69900\/","title":{"rendered":"Bears at Queens zoo figure out how to use a branch as a see-saw"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">This is the adorable moment that a pair of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/topic\/bears\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:bears;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">bears<\/a> figured out how to use a branch as a see-saw.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">On Thursday, Queens Zoo in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/topic\/new-york-city\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:New York City;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">New York City<\/a> released footage of Andean bears Coya &amp; Ransisku playing with the branch. The sweet interaction was captured by zoo visitor Ursula McDermott.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">\u201cAs young bears, Coya and Ransisku are curious about everything in their environment,\u201d said Mike Allen, Director of the Queens Zoo.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">\u201cWhile this particular interaction with the branch is unique and fun to watch, it\u2019s very much in line with their natural instinct to explore, climb, and test their surroundings. They\u2019re learning about their habitat\u2014and each other\u2014every day.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"This is the adorable moment that a pair of bears figured out how to use a branch as&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":69901,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[9,24,63,122,124,123,35334],"class_list":{"0":"post-69900","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-queens","8":"tag-new-york","9":"tag-new-york-city","10":"tag-nyc","11":"tag-queens","12":"tag-queens-headlines","13":"tag-queens-news","14":"tag-queens-zoo"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69900","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=69900"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69900\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/69901"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69900"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69900"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69900"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}