Staff at the Ailao Mountain National Nature Reserve in southwest China's Yunnan Province found an Asian black bear curiously sniffing around an infrared camera installed for on-the-spot inspection in a forest. After walking around the camera for several minutes, the bear got close and sniffed the object. All of a sudden, it got frightened and stepped back, only to return minutes later and continue its close-range "investigation". 

According to the staff, eleven of 35 infrared cameras installed in the wild have recorded footage of Asian black bears. The footage taken by the cameras, installed in a low altitude area with abundant water and food resources and close to a village, is seen a sign that the bears are frequent visitors to the area. 

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