'Lost' 200-Pound Black Bear Ends up in Backyard Tree in California Town
On 5/14/21 at 1:08 PM EDT
A "lost" black bear was spotted 40 feet up a tree in the backyard of a home in Marin County, California, on Thursday.
Police arrived at the house in the town of San Anselmo at around 4:45 p.m. after residents reported seeing the 200-pound animal in the yard, ABC 7 reported.
As word of the bear sighting spread around the neighborhood, which is just a few blocks from downtown, locals began to gather hoping to catch a glimpse of the animal.
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"It's majestic and beautiful but it must be scared," one neighbor, Natalie Harvey, told KTVU FOX 2. "I hike and I think about mountain lions all the time, but I've never heard of a bear around here."