Reports indicate that unlike the friendly brown bear images we often see in cartoons and movies, the bears in the zoo seem quite aloof, either sleeping or turning their backs to visitors. However, the "star" brown bear at the Madrid Zoo is very hospitable.
One brown bear first walked up to the visitors, found a rock where it could see all the visitors, and began to raise its strong paw to wave at them. A few minutes later, other brown bears, inspired by it, also started to "wave their paws".
Andrey Slepnev, a 31-year-old photographer from Russia, captured this amusing and heartwarming scene. Slepnev said: "This bear looked very happy; the more visitors waved back, the longer the bear waved its arm. It waved for about 3 minutes before the other bears began to imitate it."
