A Thanksgiving Day Dinner That Couldn’t Be Beat
Ah, Brutus the bear is busy this time of year. He is very much in demand for photo shoots. American grizzly bears are not usually very cooperative. Or friendly. But Brutus appears to be both. So he gets called on to pose a lot.
It’s not exactly the teddy bears’ picnic. And roast turkey is rarely on the menu for Brutus, the 7ft grizzly.
His meat, when he eats it, is usually raw, and he really prefers fruit and vegetables or fish.
But the four-year-old bear who lives in a Montana zoo is always happy to oblige his human friends.
So Brutus sat down to a traditional dinner for an American TV show to be broadcast on Thanksgiving Day on Thursday.
Called An American Thanksgiving, it shows in a series of cameos, the growth of the US from the early settlers until today.
Which is a bit academic to Brutus. All he knows is he likes humans. It’s been that way since he was born in an Idaho zoo four years ago.
Not only does Brutus like humans, but he is, we hear, also very nice. Why, we have it on good authority that he invited Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad over for Thanksgiving dinner.
By ajacksonian, Tuesday, 21 November , 2006 @ 8:57 pm
Invited my brother to dinner *again*?
Eat you out of house and home this time, for sure…
By Pam, Tuesday, 21 November , 2006 @ 9:52 pm
Who’s that on the left, Grizzly Adams?
By Gaius, Tuesday, 21 November , 2006 @ 9:56 pm
Apparently