Some visitors to the San Diego Zoo in Southern California saw something they didn’t expect to see when an Andean bear decided to start bouncing on a branch in its exhibit, and the branch broke, sending the bear tumbling. Several onlookers caught the moment on video, which is now going viral on social media.
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“So scary!! We just watched a bear fall at the @San Diego Zoo,” wrote Britt Mezzanares in her TikTok caption sharing the video. (Although Mezzanares adds the hashtag #slothbear to her caption, the animal appears to be an Andean bear, not a sloth bear.)
Based on the visitors’ reaction, we assume the bear wasn’t injured in the fall.
Watch an Andean bear overestimate how strong a branch is while bouncing on it here: