This is un-bear-ably interesting.
A young woman and her boyfriend spotted a black bear standing like a human in North Carolina.
According to Newsweek, Erin McAllister and Zachary Allen, students at East Carolina University, explored Pocosin Lakes National Wildlife Refuge. The couple traveled there because they wanted to see some bears.
When driving down the road, both students saw the bear standing in a strange position. Allen posted the peculiar pictures of the bear on his Facebook page.
“To be honest, when we both first saw it, we weren’t even sure it was real! It was standing so still and stoically,” McAllister said.
“We had both never seen black bears in the wild before—but my boyfriend had seen some at the zoo in Grandfather Mountain, and could tell right away that the bear in that standing position seemed kind of unnatural and odd,” she continued.
The couple predicted that the bear was very young and estimated that the bear stood around five feet tall. McAllister said the bear stood “very still” as the couple slowly drove their car on the dirt road.
“He seemed wholly unbothered by us, and aside from a slight glance our direction, continued on looking towards the opposing forest on the other side of the road,” McAllister said.
She shared that the bear stood in that position for 10 minutes.
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