Bear Goes to College

Doesn't make grade, taken back to the wild
By Mary Papenfuss,  Newser Staff
Posted Apr 26, 2012 11:35 PM CDT
Updated Apr 27, 2012 12:03 AM CDT
Bear Goes to College
Getting high on campus? Actually, the bear has been shot with a tranquilizer dart and is falling out of a tree onto a mat.   (YouTube)

A rambling bear apparently looking for new wild life on a University of Colorado campus yesterday ended up cooling his heels in a tree. The young male was "pretty mellow, resting on a branch for close to two hours" near student apartments at the Boulder school, said a campus cop. Officials shot a tranquilizer dart into the animal, which tumbled from the tree onto a large mat. The bear will be taken some 50 miles away and released in the woods, a spokesman told ABC News. (More Colorado stories.)

Get the news faster.
Tap to install our app.
X
Install the Newser News app
in two easy steps:
1. Tap in your navigation bar.
2. Tap to Add to Home Screen.

X