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Home Period General Modern The paratrooper, the poet’s pet and the real Winnie: 10 famous bears in historyThe paratrooper, the poet’s pet and the real Winnie: 10 famous bears in historyTry 6 issues of BBC History Magazine or BBC History Revealed for only £9.99BBC History Revealed searches for the most outstanding bears in ursine history – from fire-singed Smokey and the first teddy to the world’s most notorious marmalade fiend. Far from being average bears, these ten cuddly critters have found fame on screen, in literature and even in battle…Created in 1944 as part of a campaign to educate the US public about the dangers of forest fires, Smokey was initially just a cartoon. That was until 1950, when an American black bear cub (pictured above) was rescued from a wildfire in the Capitan Mountains. With his paws and hind legs singed, the bear was originally called ‘Hotfoot Teddy’, but was later renamed Smokey after the mascot. He was rehomed at the National Zoo in Washington, DC, where he received so much fan mail that he was given his own zip code.Grizzly’s grizzly bodyguardBozo the Bear and Dan Haggerty in The Life and Times of Grizzly AdamsBozo the Bear and Dan Haggerty starred in The Life and Times of Grizzly Adams television series (Photo by Getty)It’s not often that you come across a man named Grizzly with a pet bear named Ben. While in pursuit of a new life in the American West, John “Grizzly” Adams found companionship not in the other gold rush forty-niners, but in a bear cub he had captured while hunting. The bear, which he decided to call Ben Franklin, became so loyal to his master that he risked his life saving Grizzly from another, fiercer grizzly.

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The tale became so popular it spawned a novel that later became a television series – The Life and Times of Grizzly Adams, starring a bear called Bozo as Ben and DanHaggerty as the titular mountain manWojtek, Polish WW2 privateWith a penchant for drinking and smoking, Wojtek had much in common with many other privates serving in World War II – but this private was a bear. When hunters killedhis mother, Wojtek was adopted by members of the Polish II Corps.After being raised on condensed milk, the bear developed a taste for wine and beer, and would even take the odd puff on a cigarette (before promptly swallowing it). As the army prepared to push forward into Italy, Wojtek was officially drafted into the ranks to cheat the ‘no pets on camp’ rule, and was commended for his bravery after helping to carry ammunition into battle.Lord Byron’s Cambridge peThe Romantic poet kept the bear in his Cambridge lodgings (Photo by Getty Images)The Romantic poet kept the bear in his Cambridge lodgings (Photo by Getty Images)When Lord Byron was told that he was not allowed to bring his beloved pet dog to the University of Cambridge, the quick-witted poet devised a plan to ensure that he would never be without a furry friend. As the rules only specified that cats and dogs were forbidden, he instead managed to acquire a tame bear.