\u201cHey! Where\u2019d the pond go?\u201d is probably what this bear named Jenny was thinking when she stepped outside at the Orphaned Wildlife Center in New York and discovered that her pond had seemingly vanished and replaced by deep snow.<\/p>\n
Of course, the pond was still there, buried underneath it all, and Jenny set out on a mission to find it. Make sure your sound is on so you can hear her massive paws digging through the snow as she searches. She starts to look a little annoyed, and honestly, we don\u2019t blame her one bit!<\/p>\n
She was tasting the snow as she stuck her head into the deep snow so at least she got a little snack out of the deal!<\/p>\n
Accuweather shared the video and said in the caption, “\u201cWhere The Heck is the Pond?\u201d A confused bear named Jenny searched for her swimming spot after snow buried it at a wildlife center in New York.”<\/p>\n
Related: Grizzly Bear Trying to Scratch an Itch She Can\u2019t Reach Is Cracking Everybody Up<\/a><\/p>\n \ud83d\udc36<\/a>SIGN UP to get \u201cpawsitivity\u201d delivered right to your inbox with inspiring & entertaining stories about our furry & feathered friends<\/a>\ud83d\udc3e\ud83d\udc3e<\/a><\/p>\n One Commenter Asked, “Isn’t She Supposed to Be Sleeping?”<\/p>\n “Oh My GODDDDDDDDDD that is the chubbiest bear I ever saw!”, exclaimed @mermaidslove. And Accuweather cracked us up with their reply, “She does not skip breakfast LOL!”<\/p>\n One thing some had many viewers stumped was why, in the middle of winter, the bear wasn’t sleeping. @777glod asked, “Isn’t she supposed to be sleeping??” Another commenter wondered, “Why is she awake when there’s snow on the ground<\/a>…”<\/p>\n Clearly she put on her “winter coat” of fur to help keep her warm, and while most of us learned as kids that bears hibernate in the winter, that’s not exactly true. Bears go into a state called torpor<\/a>, or as commenter @kimikat79 said, “She’s in low power mode.”<\/p>\n Bears are not true hibernators<\/a>, and in torpor they enter a deep sleep where their body temperature and metabolism slow down.\u00a0While they may sleep for longer periods of time than normal, they occasionally wake to forage for food in the wild or for exercise when they’re in captivity.<\/p>\n Commenter @alex.mcdonald0 explained it well: “Hibernation is a function<\/a> of food availability not temperature, captive bears don’t hibernate because they are fed reliably and regularly.”<\/p>\n This story was originally published by PetHelpful<\/a> on Feb 3, 2026, where it first appeared in the Pet News<\/a> section. Add PetHelpful as a Preferred Source by clicking here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cHey! Where\u2019d the pond go?\u201d is probably what this bear named Jenny was thinking when she stepped outside…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":448287,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51],"tags":[210470,134937,210469,79,201],"class_list":{"0":"post-448286","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wildlife","8":"tag-deep-snow","9":"tag-jenny","10":"tag-orphaned-wildlife-center","11":"tag-science","12":"tag-wildlife"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/448286","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=448286"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/448286\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/448287"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=448286"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=448286"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=448286"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}