{"id":240303,"date":"2025-10-21T05:31:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-21T05:31:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/240303\/"},"modified":"2025-10-21T05:31:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-21T05:31:07","slug":"polite-black-bear-stumbles-into-california-zoo-to-pay-his-counterparts-a-visit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/240303\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Polite&#8217; black bear stumbles into California zoo to pay his counterparts a visit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Got room for one more? <\/p>\n<p>A wild but \u201cvery polite\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/04\/14\/us-news\/new-york-wildlife-rescue-busy-caring-for-orphaned-black-bears-miracle-they-survived\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">black bear<\/a> stumbled his way into a California zoo and paid a visit to his three local counterparts, peeking into their habitat from the spectator\u2019s row.<\/p>\n<p>Employees at the Sequoia Park Zoo spotted the bear on Friday as the surprise visitor was wandering the facility\u2019s Redwood Sky Walk, which overlooks the<a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2022\/07\/23\/the-redwood-bandits-poach-trees-and-almost-never-get-caught\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"> redwood forest area<\/a> and bear habitats.<\/p>\n<p>A wild black bear broke into Sequoia Park Zoo in California. Sequoia Park Zoo\/Instagram<\/p>\n<p>The bear was spotted wandering around the Redwood Sky Walk \u2014 which overlooks the bears in captivity in the zoo. Sequoia Park Zoo\/Instagram<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe wild bear did not appear aggressive and was observed interacting with Tule, Ish\u016dng and Nabu through their habitat fencing,\u201d the zoo said, referencing the three bears that live in the enclosure.<\/p>\n<p>Photos from the break-in show the black bear perched over on a viewing balcony taking a look at his fellow bears from afar as any normal visitor to the zoo would.<\/p>\n<p>Luckily, the bear did not attempt to climb into the enclosures, but he did come across some of the toys the zoo leaves for the animals.<\/p>\n<p>One of the bears at Sequoia Park Zoo. Sequoia Park Zoo<\/p>\n<p>While he was distracted, the zoo\u2019s staff contacted Eureka Police and the <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/08\/23\/us-news\/band-of-mountain-lions-savagely-attack-california-farm-slaughtering-15-alpacas\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">California Department of Fish and Wildlife <\/a>to help coax the animal back into the wild.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOverall, he was a very polite visitor. He stayed on the boardwalk path, kept two feet on the ground and didn\u2019t try to climb over the railings!\u201d the zoo said of their wild visitor. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut seriously. When we say \u2018wildlife welcome\u2019, this isn\u2019t exactly what we have in mind,\u201d they added. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Park officials aren\u2019t sure how the wild bear got in, but the area is home to bears and other animals, with the zoo continuing to monitor the situation. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Got room for one more? A wild but \u201cvery polite\u201d black bear stumbled his way into a California&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":240304,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51],"tags":[19122,2356,79,194,201,30519],"class_list":{"0":"post-240303","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wildlife","8":"tag-bears","9":"tag-california","10":"tag-science","11":"tag-us-news","12":"tag-wildlife","13":"tag-zoos"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240303","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=240303"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240303\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/240304"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=240303"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=240303"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=240303"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}