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Sufi the Grizzly Bear

Aug 192011
 

Some of you might enjoy this video of a young grizzly bear playing, socializing, and training:

 

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 August 19, 2011  Posted by roland at 11:09 pm Tagged with: baby, bear, bears, cub, grizzly, playing, swimming, young

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