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A wild, very “polite” and possibly lonely black bear recently paid a visit to its neighbors at a Northern California zoo.

Martin, 36, died in a hospital after he became unresponsive following his arrest by Oakland police officers responding to the reports of a break-in at a residence about two blocks from the Oakland zoo.

A zoo has said intruders are posing a risk to its gorillas after a video circulated online from someone who had broken in and filmed the animals.

She strongly suspects that some retiree volunteers who leave the zoo within a few months do so because they had to be on their feet too much.

“It is common for male gorillas, especially in adolescence, to express these types of behaviors,” a zoo spokesperson said in a statement.