The bear that flew through the air
IS it a bird? Is it a plane? No, it’s a flying bear...
This amazing picture captures the moment he fell from a tree after being shot with tranquillisers.
Straying from a family of black bears, the 200lb creature had wandered on to a campus at the University of Colorado. Then he scaled a tree near student dorms and took refuge in its branches.
A police spokesman said: “He was just resting up there probably for a good two hours.”
The young bear was tranquillised by wildlife experts, fell from his perch, and made a near-perfect landing on padded mats laid down below.
He was then transferred to a cage ready to be released in the wild.