Famous Bears

1 Bozo the bear The original actress bear. Bozo was a gigantic female Kodiak bear who shot to fame when she portrayed real life grizzly bear Benjamin Franklin in the TV show The Life and Times Of Grizzly Adams. The real Ben Franklin was actually a male, a Californian grizzly bear (an extinct subspecies) who befriended the real life Grizzly Adams and even saved his … [Read more...] about 10 Actor Bears Which Appeared On Screen

  1 The first reintroduced Pyrenees bear The Pyrenees is perhaps the main bear battleground of Europe today. From the 1800s peak where hundreds of bear trainers left Pyrenees villages and crossed the Atlantic, the bears were hunted down to 4 survivors by 1995, far beyond hope of natural genetic survival. The only solution was introducing bears from … [Read more...] about Pyros the Superdaddy Bear: 10 Facts

  1 The beginning Unlike some showbiz bears, Bart wasn't rescued from the wild. He was born in Baltimore zoo on January 19, 1977, and at the age of 5 weeks, weighing 1 pound, he was purchased by film industry animal trainers Doug and Lynn Sues. A husband and wife team, they made their start in 1971 by training wolves, before expanding to racoons, foxes and … [Read more...] about Bart the Famous Actor Bear: 10 Facts

  1 Origins of Bruno Like most European countries, Germany had been a bear-free zone since the early 19th century, with the last official sighting being in 1838. In 2006, however, all that changed with the arrival of a bear called JJ1, AKA Bruno, who would go on to become arguably the most famous bear in the world. Everyone had an opinion on Bruno in … [Read more...] about Bruno AKA JJ1, the Infamous German Bear

  1 Yellowstone's celebrity bear Which bear is the most famous in the world? If you asked the question in summer 2020, it would undoubtedly be Papillon the escape bear, who stormed to headlines after breaking from an Italian bear sanctuary not once, but twice. However, many would argue that the most consistently famous bear is 399 of Yellowstone. She's a … [Read more...] about Famous Bears: Grizzly 399 Of Yellowstone Park