Batting bear thrills visitors at Hiroshima Zoo

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!

7 comments - What do you think? Posted by James - May 21, 2008 at 6:03 am

Categories: Animal Videos Tags: baseball, bat, bear, japan, sports

http://www.feitclub.com feitclub

Too bad Hanshin is in first place! GO TIGERS!

(couldn’t resist)
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Why Japan has tendency in showing cute things on TV nowadays?

http://neilduckett.com Neil Duckett

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

http://www.hormel.com VonSkippy

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.
http://hobbyjapan.blogspot.com/ Timotei

Kawaii Kuma-san.

Seem to be a few news on animals these days.
http://linda-l.blogspot.com/ Junkgirl

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.
Jojo

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

Batting bear thrills visitors at Hiroshima Zoo

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