A Sierra Madre homeowner recently spotted a large black bear enjoying the cool of his backyard pool. The bear swam around, watched the man who was staring through the sliding-glass door, and then walked away. In his viral video of the bear in his pool, the homeowner, David Rechtschaffen, noted that the animal appeared to be wounded.
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“I walked over to my glass door, and there he was, chilling in the water,” Rechtschaffen said, according to CBS LA.
Sierra Madre is a city in Los Angeles County, California, near Angeles National Forest. Despite its cinnamon-colored fur, this bear is a black bear, since black bears are the only bear species that currently lives in California.
Watch a bear enjoy a backyard pool near Los Angeles below (or see it here).
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