Kung Fu Bear
You might remember it as Claude the bear, Bear twirling staff
The archive has not found a surviving copy.
2002·Early web, before YouTube
An animal clip remembered for a decade, and a test of whether zoo footage survives as an identifiable original.
At a glanceThe facts
- Remembered as
- Claude the bear
- Spread in
- 2002
- Began as
- A video upload
- Format
- Video
- Origin
- Origin not yet established
- Available
- Not held by ViralWorld
Why it is here: it got out of its own corner of the internet fast · still being watched and quoted years later
Where it came fromWhat we know
Original source uncertain. This is the earliest copy currently known.
No original upload has been established for this record. The index is showing the earliest copy it currently knows about, and says so rather than guessing.
Not established. This index only names a creator where the evidence supports it.