He just couldn’t bear to be on the outside looking in. Around midnight on Monday, a zoo ranger at Tennesse's Knoxville Zoo spotted a young 150-pound black bear scaling a 10-foot-high barbed wire fence surrounding the zoo perimeter, Knox News reports. Earlier that night, a neighbor had alerted the zoo that the bear was in the vicinity after seeing the furry fellow in nearby Chilhowee Park area. KnoxNews reports that zoo staff, suspecting the loose bear might be one of their own four black bears, quickly counted their bears' noses and discovered that all were present. After the bear's initial sighting, he was not seen again. He likely didn't want to be a fifth wheel. Apparently, an unexpected...
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