Bear Rocks Stick

Say hello to Pamir, branch-manipulator extraordinaire. Pamir lives in Russia, and is not to be confused with Claude, the Asian black bear from Hiroshima who shows similar stick-handling dexterity. In other bear news, here is a gallery of polar bear photos marking International Polar Bear Day, which was yesterday. Finally, here’s the classic (and scary, but it ends happily, so no worries) story of a bear who almost got electrocuted while searching for her cub. “I think people like animals a lot more than they like each other,” says one of the interviewees, and most days you can’t really blame them.