Tame bear

Because dancing bears need to stand on hind legs to perform tricks, various methods have been employed to execute this behavior.

[1] Another tactic is considered inhumane today but is still practiced in some countries by semi-nomadic people living in extreme poverty.

[7] In Russia and Siberia, cubs were for centuries captured for being used as dancing bears accompanying tavern musicians (skomorokhi), as depicted in the Travels of Adam Olearius.

More than 600 men from Ariège in the French Pyrenees trained bear cubs found in the mountains near their home.

[12] They would leave their home early in spring, walking from the Pyrenees through France and England, earning money for the crossing in order to arrive in North America in May or June.