Adorable Bear Family Frolicked on New Jersey Golf Course
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— -- A sunny day in a New Jersey town brought three bears out to play.
The mother bear and her two cubs were caught on video playing around on the green of a golf course, just a few hundred feet away from homes.
“It’s a way of life if you live here,” Vernon Township spokeswoman Michelle Downtain told ABC News today.
One cub is seen sniffing around the sand trap before taking a running start and tackling its sibling.
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“They’re absolutely beautiful and people have seen them in their pools or on their swing sets. It doesn’t surprise me they came out to play on a golf course,” Downtain said.
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"Ironically, [the town] has a huge statue of a black bear named Samantha outside our municipal building," she added.
There were no golfers on the course when the video was filmed.