during a family trip in 2009. >> the zoo is generally really quiet. we were looking around. i walk off by myself. >> soon alex comes face-to-face with claude the bear. >> so i take out my camera. >> alex can't believe his eyes when claude picks up the stick. >> i was pretty amazed when i saw claude playing with the stick doing all these amazing tricks. at the time i was filming it, i was thinking this could get millions of view on youtube. >> alex decides to make his vision a reality. he comes home from his trip and edits together a montage of claude's best moves. the bear's tricks are so unbelievable that even alex's sister yuki thinks it's a fake. >> there's a ton of crazy stuff in japan, so i thought maybe it was a show or something. then he's like, no, it's real.