Kodiak bear cubs were found in Florida, thousands of miles away from their native home: 'Climbing on my car'
PENSACOLA, Fla. — Two Kodiak bear cubs, a unique subspecies of the brown bear, were found in a rural area of the Florida Panhandle thousands of miles away from their native home, authorities said.
The Okaloosa County Sheriff's Office shared a video on social media Wednesday of their encounter with the friendly cubs, who appeared to try and play with a responding deputy. Around 3:30 a.m. on Dec. 5, 2023, the sheriff's office received a call from a man who had spotted the pair of cubs and said: "they didn’t appear to be our common Northwest Florida black bears."
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Kodiak bears belonged to a 'self-proclaimed bear trainer'
The cubs were transferred to a "secure location for safekeeping," while the FWC conducted its investigation, the sheriff's office said. It was determined that the bears had escaped from an enclosure at a residence in the area where a "self-proclaimed bear trainer" lives.
The resident faces various state wildlife violations, according to the sheriff's department.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/kodiak-bear-cubs-were-found-041853984.html
No wonder Florida has so many invasive species. Wild animals do not make good pets.