ASHEVILLE, N.C. ( WBTV /Gray News) - A bear cub who was taken out of a tree for selfies has been released back into the wild. The bear gained international attention after a video taken in April showed a group of people taking it out of a tree in Asheville, North Carolina, and posing for photos with it.

A bear cub that went viral earlier this year after being pulled from a tree for selfies has been rehabilitated and returned to the wild in an undisclosed and remote

A cub that was snatched from a tree by people looking to take selfies back in April has been returned to a remote area of the North Carolina mountains after she was deemed “healthy and able to successfully survive in the wild”.

Video the North Carolina Wildlife Commission posted online showed people pulling cubs from a tree in Asheville. One person could also be seen posing for a photo while holding one of the wild animals -- and one cub fell to t the ground.

A black bear cub that was pulled from a tree for a selfie in North Carolina earlier this year has been successfully released back into the wild. Back in April, a group was caught pulling bear cubs from a tree to take photographs with them, as seen in ...

A bear cub, one of two pulled from a tree as a person posed for a photo, has been returned to the wild, according to North Carolina wildlife officials. The bear was released last month in an undisclosed,