Private Wojtek

Here is an amazing story of a bear named Private Wojtek that was the mascot of a Polish military unit during World War II. Go read it if you find bears fascinating, as we do here at COTTonLINE. The story is in the online version of the U.K.'s Telegraph.

This bear must have been a great pet, and he apparently understood some Polish. I'll bet that, like Yogi, he was smarter than the average bear. The other DrC tells me that a Google search about this remarkable bear turns up lots of interesting stuff - go for it.