Ram Singh Munda, 35, rides a bicycle with his pet sloth bear Rani in Gahatagaon village

Claude is an Asiatic black bear, living in a zoo in Hiroshima, and he loves to twirl a log. He's become so good at it, that he looks like a baton-twirler.

Bear driven to diet on pizza, booze

STATELINE, Nevada (AP) -- A bear cub drew a crowd of spectators at a Lake Tahoe neighborhood as it munched on barbecue-chicken-and-jalapeno pizza in the back seat of a vintage red Buick convertible.

It also apparently washed it down with a swig of a Jack Daniel's mixer, some vodka and a beer taken from a cooler, the vehicle's owner said.