--- title: Man Feeding Bears Accidentally Threw His iPhone at Them description: Tourist accidentally threw his iPhone into a bear enclosure. canonical: https://time.com/5528513/bear-iphone-video/ author: Melissa Locker article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2019-02-13T15:56:30.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:57:28.529Z og:title: Man Feeding Bears Accidentally Threw His iPhone at Them og:description: Hold on to your phones at the zoo! og:url: https://time.com/5528513/bear-iphone-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: Man Feeding Bears Accidentally Threw His iPhone at Them twitter:description: Hold on to your phones at the zoo! twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Video Shows Nonchalant Man Feeding Bears Accidentally Throwing His iPhone at Them by [Melissa Locker](https://time.com/author/melissa-locker/) ## Melissa Locker Feb 13, 2019 3:56 PM UTC by [Melissa Locker](https://time.com/author/melissa-locker/) ## Melissa Locker Feb 13, 2019 3:56 PM UTC The [ U.S. Fish and Wildlife Services say](https://www.fws.gov/mountain-prairie/es/species/mammals/grizzly/grizz%5Ffoods.pdf) that [bears](http://time.com/5270214/does-pepper-spray-work-on-bears/) are omnivores who like to eat fish, berries, fruits and vegetables, insects, even human food when they find it (as anyone who has watched Yogi Bear and his love of pic-a-nic baskets knows). The bear experts don’t mention what bears will do with an iPhone, though. A man visiting the bears at Yancheng Wildlife Park accidentally found out. The man was visiting the zoological park in China’s Jiangsu Province, sitting in a little car on a ride that took him over the bears’ enclosure. According to the video shared by [CGTN](https://www.facebook.com/ChinaGlobalTVNetwork/videos/2221628478104075/) on Facebook and YouTube, he was feeding the bears apples and carrots when he accidentally chucked his iPhone into the pen, too. The bears were intrigued by the new arrival, pawing at the phone, perhaps trying to determine whether it was food or to [snap a selfie](http://time.com/3393645/monkey-selfie-lands-photographer-in-legal-quagmire/) or to call for help. One clever bear [picked up the phone](http://time.com/5192828/viral-penguin-selfie/) with its mouth and walked away with it. The bears reportedly eventually gave up realizing it wasn’t a particularly tasty new treat and lacking the opposable thumbs necessary to play Candy Crush. When they got bored, the zoo staff were able to get into the cage and return the visitor’s phone to him. Man Feeding Bears Accidentally Threw His iPhone at Them ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/5528513/bear-iphone-video/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/5528513/bear-iphone-video/"},"headline":"Video Shows Nonchalant Man Feeding Bears Accidentally Throwing His iPhone at Them","datePublished":"2019-02-13T15:56:30.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:57:28.529Z","description":"Hold on to your phones at the zoo!","url":"https://time.com/5528513/bear-iphone-video/","keywords":["Newsfeed","animals","viral","onetime"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Melissa Locker","jobTitle":"","url":"https://time.com/author/melissa-locker/"}],"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/5528513/bear-iphone-video/","name":"Video Shows Nonchalant Man Feeding Bears Accidentally Throwing His iPhone at Them"}}]}] ```