{"id":602117,"date":"2026-04-23T18:56:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-23T18:56:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/602117\/"},"modified":"2026-04-23T18:56:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-23T18:56:09","slug":"tranquilized-bear-that-clung-to-tree-in-albany-for-hours-has-new-life-see-the-pics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/602117\/","title":{"rendered":"Tranquilized bear that clung to tree in Albany for hours has new life \u2014 see the pics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Captivity was un-bear-able!\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The black bear that vent viral for stubbornly clinging to a tree after <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/04\/21\/us-news\/curious-black-bear-tranquilized-by-cops-topples-out-of-tree-after-hours-long-standoff-in-ny\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">cops in Albany tranquilized it<\/a> was safely\u00a0released back into the wild, wildlife officials said Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>The curious cub took animal rescues to new heights Tuesday\u00a0when it made a spectacular plunge from a tree top into a padded net below after a more than six hour standoff, wild footage shows.<\/p>\n<p>The bear was seen in a new video Wednesday happily scampering\u00a0 into a wooded area away from the heart of the city as wildlife officials set it free, according to state environmental conservation police.<\/p>\n<p><img style=\"aspect-ratio:1.77777778;display:block\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"39174793\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/curious-black-bear-tranquilized-cops-126129728.jpg\" alt=\"bear\" class=\"wp-image-39174793\"  \/>The cub plunged from a tree into a padded net below Tuesday. WNYT<\/p>\n<p>Footage, posted by the agency<a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DXaOwdXEW36\/?hl=bg\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"> on Instagram,<\/a> shows the bear bolting from a metal enclosure into a still-snowy forest of bare trees.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis time of year, <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/tag\/bears\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">young bears<\/a>, particularly 1-year old males, disperse from the area of their birth,\u201d\u00a0 the agency said in the post.<\/p>\n<p><img style=\"aspect-ratio:0.66113281;display:block\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"39174785\" width=\"390\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/www-instagram-com-p-dxafb5xdoye-126239260.jpg\" alt=\"bear\" class=\"wp-image-39174785\"  \/>The bear was released into a wooded area, officials said Wednesday. CBS 6 Albany<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey may move several dozen miles in this process, and occasionally they wind up in unusual spots, like an urban neighborhood.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The bold bruin on Tuesday forced cops to block off streets for hours as a crowd of neighbors watched the \u201cAnimal Planet\u201d-worthy drama unfold.<\/p>\n<p>After it was shot with a tranquillizer, the strong-willed critter continued to climb higher into\u00a0 the tree \u2014\u00a0clinging to branches for roughly two more hours.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Captivity was un-bear-able!\u00a0 The black bear that vent viral for stubbornly clinging to a tree after cops in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":602118,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51],"tags":[1147,19122,5871,1583,79,194,2600,201],"class_list":["post-602117","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wildlife","tag-animals","tag-bears","tag-metro","tag-police","tag-science","tag-us-news","tag-viral-videos","tag-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/602117","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=602117"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/602117\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/602118"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=602117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=602117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=602117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}