Little girl's bear encounter at Nashville Zoo will melt your heart
A friendly captive bear has melted the hearts of the internet after an adorable encounter with a young visitor to the zoo was captured on video.
A young bear was in the pool at the Andean bear enclosure at Nashville Zoo when it found an unlikely playmate in a little girl, according to viral website Jukin.
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Recreating a video that went viral just a year prior, the unidentified small blonde girl can be seen jumping up and down in the footage as the bear – suspected to be Luka, who featured in the original footage – jumps gleefully in unison.
And don't worry — the interaction occurs while the girl is safe on the other side of a glass barrier.
The bear is believed to be six-year-old Luka, who shot to fame after starring in a similar viral video in 2017. Jukin
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The small, excitable bear is just six years old, according to the zoo website, and identifiable by its unique 'spectacled' fur face markings, adorably resembling a pair of oversized glasses (can this bear get any cuter, seriously?!).
It's unclear how long the jumping went on, but its not the first time the bear has made a connection with a young, bouncy zoo visitor.
In June of 2018, Luka hit viral fame as the bear imitated five-year-old Ian in much the same way.
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The video shows Luke and Ian jumping on opposite sides of the enclosure to the bemusement of the child's father, Patrick.
Patrick's original Facebook post clocked up hundreds of thousands of views.
