--- title: Bears Play with Pink Balloon description: Bears playing with a pink balloon. canonical: https://time.com/4257511/bear-balloon-video/ author: Olivia B. Waxman article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-03-15T13:32:03.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:30:54.765Z og:title: Bears Play with Pink Balloon og:description: Bears playing with a pink balloon. og:url: https://time.com/4257511/bear-balloon-video/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Bears Play with Pink Balloon twitter:description: Bears playing with a pink balloon. twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Watch 3 Bears Try Really, Really Hard Not to Pop This Pink Balloon  by [Olivia B. Waxman](https://time.com/author/olivia-b-waxman/)  ## Olivia B. Waxman Staff Writer Mar 15, 2016 1:32 PM UTC  by [Olivia B. Waxman](https://time.com/author/olivia-b-waxman/)  ## Olivia B. Waxman Staff Writer Mar 15, 2016 1:32 PM UTC The [red balloon](http://content.time.com/time/subscriber/article/0,33009,871775,00.html) is so last century. Now a pink balloon is captivating hearts and minds — at least among three sloth bears at a zoo. On March 8, Facebook user “Xaviera Simons” of Tilburg, a city in the Netherlands, [shared a video](https://www.facebook.com/xaviera.simons/videos/901376523314558/) of what appears to be three sloth bears that are really excited to play with a pink balloon tied to the ground in their enclosure. Some reports claim that the footage was shot at the Beekse Bergen Safari Park in Hilvarenbeek in the Netherlands. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4257511/bear-balloon-video/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4257511/bear-balloon-video/"},"headline":"Watch 3 Bears Try Really, Really Hard Not to Pop This Pink Balloon","datePublished":"2016-03-15T13:32:03.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:30:54.765Z","description":"Darn claws","url":"https://time.com/4257511/bear-balloon-video/","keywords":["Newsfeed","animals"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Olivia B. Waxman","jobTitle":"Staff Writer","url":"https://time.com/author/olivia-b-waxman/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4257511/bear-balloon-video/","name":"Watch 3 Bears Try Really, Really Hard Not to Pop This Pink Balloon"}}]}] ```