JapanProbe Friends - Featured Members


Batting bear thrills visitors at Hiroshima Zoo

May 21st, 2008 by James

A video news report about Cloud, an Asian black bear at the Hiroshima City Zoo that likes to swing around a bat:

Cloud had originally played with a stick, but yesterday he received a special present from the Hiroshima Carp: an official game bat. Now both the zoo and the baseball team can share in the free advertising they’re getting from the media!



Related Posts:
 

Vicious bear mauls Japanese schoolboy

Voices of the Survivors From Hiroshima & Nagasaki (In English)

Bear stops playing with baseball bat

Dwarf Caiman Stands Up, Delights Aquarium Visitors

Polar bear cubs in Hokkaido


RSS feed | Trackback URI

7 Comments »

Comment by feitclub
2008-05-21 06:37:29

Too bad Hanshin is in first place! GO TIGERS!

(couldn’t resist)

Rate this comment: Thumb up 0 Thumb down 0

 
Comment by ...
2008-05-21 07:31:09

Why Japan has tendency in showing cute things on TV nowadays?

Rate this comment: Thumb up 0 Thumb down 0

Comment by Neil Duckett
2008-05-21 09:18:38

They’ve always loved their ‘acting’ animals … i haven’t seen any increase i thought it was always excessive!

Rate this comment: Thumb up 0 Thumb down 0

 
 
Comment by VonSkippy
2008-05-21 09:23:52

Put the bear in a uniform, teach it how to play the game, have it hit a homerun AND the game would still bore me to tears.

Rate this comment: Thumb up 0 Thumb down 0

 
Comment by Timotei
2008-05-21 21:51:13

Kawaii Kuma-san.

Seem to be a few news on animals these days.

Rate this comment: Thumb up 0 Thumb down 0

 
Comment by Junkgirl
2008-05-22 08:33:22

I saw an earlier video of Cloud twirling sticks. Now he’s got bats to twirl. Hopefully he won’t knock himself out twirling the bat.

Rate this comment: Thumb up 0 Thumb down 0

 
Comment by Jojo
2008-05-23 11:12:55

um…give a dangerous animal a weapon to make it MORE dangerous? lol. he’s pretty insane with that thing so i’d watch out taking it back

Rate this comment: Thumb up 0 Thumb down 0

 
Name (required)
E-mail (required - never shown publicly)
URI
Your Comment (smaller size | larger size)
You may use <a href="" title=""> <abbr title=""> <acronym title=""> <b> <blockquote cite=""> <cite> <code> <del datetime=""> <em> <i> <q cite=""> <strike> <strong> in your comment. (Please close your HTML tags.)

If your comment isn't showing up, it's probably stuck in the spam filter or in moderation. Instead of typing the same comment over and over and sending it, contact us. Most comments are visible within a few minutes of their posting.
This site is not an open forum: we have rules. Read our discussion policy for more details.

Trackback responses to this post