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Credit \u00a9 Ursula McDermott \/ Queens Zoo<\/p>\n Credit \u00a9 Ursula McDermott \/ Queens Zoo<\/p>\n
The Queens Zoo released a short, heart-warming video this week featuring two young Andean bears having fun with a tree branch.<\/p>\n
The video captured by a guest at the zoo shows the moment the bears found a limb and discovered how to turn it into a playful see-saw.<\/p>\n
The pair includes Coya a female bear almost two years old (right), and Ransisku, a male almost four years old (left).<\/p>\n
\u201cAs young bears, Coya and Ransisku are curious about everything in their environment,\u201d said Mike Allen, Director of the Queens Zoo.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhile this particular interaction with the branch is unique and fun to watch, it\u2019s very much in line with their natural instinct to explore, climb, and test their surroundings.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThey\u2019re learning about their habitat\u2014and each other\u2014every day.\u201d (See the video below\u2026)<\/p>\n
Also known as spectacled bears for the distinctive white or cream-colored markings around their eyes, Andean bears are the only bear species native to South America.<\/p>\n
Adults typically measure 5-6 feet long, and since they are highly arboreal, they rely on trees for nesting, foraging, resting\u2014and playing, apparently.<\/p>\n
MORE ZOO-TOPIA:<\/strong> In the wild, you can find this bear species frolicking in the Tropical Andes mountains across Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, and Venezuela.<\/p>\n SHARE THE HILARIOUS PLAYGROUND ANTICS With Friends on Social Media\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Credit \u00a9 Ursula McDermott \/ Queens Zoo The Queens Zoo released a short, heart-warming video this week featuring…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":447095,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[3425,21219,11660,14764,403,5039,159,52245,67,132,68,837,4286],"class_list":{"0":"post-447094","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wildlife","8":"tag-animals","9":"tag-cute","10":"tag-fun","11":"tag-funny","12":"tag-new-york-city","13":"tag-play","14":"tag-science","15":"tag-top-videos","16":"tag-united-states","17":"tag-unitedstates","18":"tag-us","19":"tag-wildlife","20":"tag-zoos"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115719611779056543","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/447094","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=447094"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/447094\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/447095"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=447094"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=447094"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=447094"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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