“Until one has loved an animal, a part of one’s soul remains unawakened.” Anatole France
This gorgeous video has been doing the rounds and came to me thanks to Suzann.
Enjoy!
Very Talented Russian Bear and His Awesome Friend
This unbelievably talented and cute Russian bear can roll over, play the trumpet, sit on a lawn chair, play the trumpet, you name it. Leave it to a random Russian guy to train such an awesome bear.
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Absolutely wonderful, what a gorgeous and clever bear!!
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Glad you liked the video and welcome to this place.
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I am sorry, This looks more like a circus act than genuine friendship. Who can we be sure what training the bear had to go through to perform this…it could easily be animal cruelty.
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That’s certainly a possibility and, ultimately, each person will need to come to their own conclusion.
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Some university research lab somewhere (I think Japan) is testing the intelligence of a number of chimps and at least one Brown Bear (as in the video). They found the bear tested at roughly the same intellectual level.
The “I am sorry” comment of bhardwaz-twice is possibly, by itself, animal cruelty. He obviously has never met a bear in the wild. I have, all too many times. They have an excellent sense of human psychology. One even drove a Prius in lake Tahoe this year (!) OK, he got in an accident. But was THAT animal cruelty?
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Thanks Patrice. I have no expertise in terms of being able to define cruelty but as a lay person would have thought that being forced to do something against one’s will must lay within the definition of cruelty. If that is a reliable measure then this particular bear is not the victim of cruelty, just demonstrating like all warm-blooded creatures that we can succumb to being ‘trained’.
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Loved the Video, and hope he was a rescue bear who loved what he was doing,.. Did you ever see the Bear Series on BBC’s 2 The Great Bear Stakeout “… now that was awesome 🙂
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I don’t recall that BBC series: when did it run?
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Try this Link Paul, there is some clips viewing some of the footage here
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0176ql9
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Well done, Sue.
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Hi, Paul. I think this is the first of my ‘time travel’ jaunts on your blog where I’ve come across a dead video link… I did a search on YouTube for your headline (‘Very Talented Russian Bear and His Awesome Friend’) and came up with this:
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Thank you kindly, Mr P.
For some reason that original YouTube link no longer works.
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You’re very welcome, Paul 🙂
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🙂
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