bear say hi to me

"We're bears — Of course we're going to bite your friend."

Does she somehow know this "mummy" bear's pronoun is "he?"

mostly empty calories article
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/why-are-bears-friend-shaped/

but thumbs up on choice of stock photo:
https://static.scientificamerican.com/dam/m/120f13fd81870c89/original/GettyImages-1469738306.jpg?w=1350

LOL @ the People link upthread about the tourist bear mauling. Stock photo of bears. Stock photo of hospital gurney.

let's think....brown, American black, Andean (aka spectacled), polar, sloth, sun, Asian black, giant panda

Are giant pandas actually bears? or massive rodents

DNA sequencing finally proved that, yes, giant pandas are bears. They were originally thought to be bears, then placed in the raccoon family (Procyonidae), then in a family of their own together with the red panda and are now considered bears again.
No zoologist ever considered they were rodents iirc although rhino-sized capybara-like rodents did exist in prehistory.

Ahh, okay... I thought raccoons were rodents but that doesn't seem to be the case anymore: 'Distantly related to cats and dogs, they share a common evolutionary ancestor with bears.'

These incidences of bears breaking into cars and wreaking havoc seem to be becoming more and more common:

https://www.motorious.com/articles/news/bear-lamborghini-huracan/

https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/jun/12/ontario-black-bear-car