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VIDEO: Curious black bear checks out Black Mountain cars

A cub got close to some cars in Black Mountain Monday night
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A black bear got up close and personal with some vehicles in Kelowna91ÂãÁÄÊÓƵ™s Black Mountain neighbourhood on Monday.

At around 6:30 p.m., Felix Plath was driving home from work on Joe Riche Road near Highway 33 when he saw a vehicle pulled over and a 91ÂãÁÄÊÓƵ˜furry big animal91ÂãÁÄÊÓƵ™ walking not far down the road in front of it.

Out of curiosity, Plath pulled his car over as well to catch a glimpse of what the big animal might be. As it got closer, he realized it was a two-year-old (approximately) black bear.

He believes the bear was headed back into the bush.

The bear slowly walked past Plath91ÂãÁÄÊÓƵ™s car, sniffed the vehicles, and continued on its way.

91ÂãÁÄÊÓƵœIt seemed very friendly, which is not something that I would recommend taking for granted. They are wild animals and should be treated as such.91ÂãÁÄÊÓƵ

Plath told the Capital News the bear didn91ÂãÁÄÊÓƵ™t seem like it was looking for food because someone from one of the cars in front of him left food on the ground, but the bear wasn91ÂãÁÄÊÓƵ™t interested.

He said he wasn91ÂãÁÄÊÓƵ™t nervous when the bear got close to his car, as seen in the video because he grew up in a farm community in Salmon Arm where bears were known to come around often to eat the corn and apples in the fields.

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