Bear doing Kung-Fu with Bamboo Stick
Have you ever seen a bear do Kung-Fu with a bamboo stick? Well, before I saw this video I haven’t seen any show of dexterity and manual skill of this magnitude by a bear. This bear is from Japan. Let me give a big thanks to The Morning Mash Up for bringing this video to my attention. The Morning Mash Up is a website with funny little articles and it is a variety blog. This bear that is in the video is extremely talented. It looks very curious about the manual manipulation of the staff and it seems to have a great sense of balance. You can watch the bear search for the center of gravity of the staff and it uses its head and feet sometimes to do interesting movements. If you watch the video past 1 minute and 30 seconds the bear really starts to do some cool moves with the staff. I think this shows that bears are very intelligent and talented. I wonder if all bears are this curious about moving objects or if this is peculiar to this bear. It would be pretty cool to have a bear bodyguard who knew how to use a bo staff.