{"id":245124,"date":"2025-10-23T03:45:12","date_gmt":"2025-10-23T03:45:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/245124\/"},"modified":"2025-10-23T03:45:12","modified_gmt":"2025-10-23T03:45:12","slug":"wild-bear-invades-california-zoo-and-hangs-out-with-other-bears","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/245124\/","title":{"rendered":"Wild Bear Invades California Zoo And Hangs Out With Other Bears"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Zookeepers are obviously accustomed to getting up close and personal with animals over the course of their day. However, some employees at a zoo in California had an unexpected encounter with a wild bear that was spotted hanging out with its own kind after managing to infiltrate its grounds.<\/p>\n

California is home to over 25 zoos, and none of them are older than the Sequoia Park Zoo<\/a>, which is located in the heart of a redwood forest in Eureka and has been open since 1907.\u00a0It\u2019s a relatively tiny operation but one that\u2019s still home to more than 150 species, including otters, red pandas, and three black bears named Tule, Ish\u016dng, and Nabu.<\/p>\n

All three of those bears<\/a> were brought to the zoo for rehabilitative reasons and will spend the rest of their life in captivity due to concerns about their ability to survive outside of a controlled habitat. However, they did get the chance to interact with a wild member of their species courtesy of an intruder that recently stopped by.<\/p>\n

A wild bear was spotted mingling with some other bears after making its way into the Sequoia Park Zoo<\/p>\n

Employees at the zoo were preparing to open for business on the morning of October 17th when workers inspecting its Redwood Sky Walk attraction sounded the alarm after spotting a black bear casually roaming around.<\/p>\n

According to The New York Times<\/a>, they quickly determined the bear in question was not a member of the aforementioned trio, although the intruder did get the chance to interact with them after making its way toward their habitat and getting \u201cnose-to-nose\u201d through the fencing while making \u201cpolite introductions.\u201d<\/p>\n

It did not enter any animal enclosures during its visit, which came to an end after a team of staffers guided it toward a service exit with the help of the Eureka Police Department and officials from the state\u2019s Department of Fish and Wildlife.<\/p>\n

The zoo is still attempting to determine how the bear managed to get over the wall that surrounds it\u2014an eight-foot-tall barrier topped with barbed wire\u2014and the leading theory is that it scaled a tree and dropped down before treating itself to a tour.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"iStockphoto Zookeepers are obviously accustomed to getting up close and personal with animals over the course of their…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":245125,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51],"tags":[19122,79,201,30519],"class_list":{"0":"post-245124","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wildlife","8":"tag-bears","9":"tag-science","10":"tag-wildlife","11":"tag-zoos"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245124","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=245124"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245124\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/245125"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=245124"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=245124"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=245124"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}