Sure enough, after a few bounces, the limb snapped and the bear toppled, only to execute an acrobatic save to end up standing on its hind legs, nonchalantly, as if nothing embarrassing had happened.

However, there's one "bear cub" who might just be the most approachable of all! When his mom took him for a walk recently, the Pomeranian-Shih-Tzu mix decided to stand on his hind legs.

A video of a Southeast Asian sun bear standing on hind legs at the Hangzhou Zoo swept through Chinese social media. This behavior is not unusual, experts say, and sun bears are known for their ...

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A zoo in China has refused to grin and bear it after video of one of its bears standing on its hind legs went viral — forcing officials to deny it was a human in a costume.

The mama grizzly rose up on her hind legs and turned her head from side to side. Keep walking, I said to Natalie, as we strode downstream through thigh-high grasses and bushes.

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