Bart the Bear 2

Bart the Bear 2

Bart the Bear 2 with Doug Seus in 2010
Other name(s)	Little Bart
Species	Brown bear
Sex	Male
Born	(2000-01-20) January 20, 2000 (age 17) near Paxson, Alaska, U.S.
Nation from	United States
Occupation	Bear Actor
Years active	2000 –
Owner	Doug and Lynne Seus
Weight	1,300 lb (500 kg)
Height	8 ft 6 in (2.59 m)
Named after	Bart the Bear
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Bart the Bear 2, also called Bart the Bear II, Bart 2, Bart II, or Little Bart (born January 20, 2000) is a male interior Alaskan brown bear actor who has appeared in several Hollywood films and television series, including An Unfinished Life, Into the Wild, We Bought a Zoo, and Game of Thrones. His trainers are Doug Seus and Lynne Seus of Wasatch Rocky Mountain Wildlife, Inc., in Heber City, Utah. Bart 2 was named after the earlier Seus-trained bear actor Bart the Bear, although the two bears are not related.

Bart 2 and his sister, Honey Bump, were born in January 2000. Within a few months, they were orphaned when their mother was shot and killed outside Paxson, Alaska. Unable to survive on their own, they were adopted as cubs by Doug and Lynne Seus on April 26, 2000. Bart 2 was named after the Seus' well-known bear actor Bart the Bear, who died a month later in May, shortly after the Seuses adopted the cubs. Doug Seus decided to name the new male cub after the original Bart after seeing that he "had the same nature as the original Bart, and a lot of the attributes." That same year, Bart 2 made his film debut along with Honey Bump in Dr. Dolittle 2, playing the offspring of the bear character "Archie" (who was played by another Seus-trained bear, Tank).

The childhood and young adulthood of Bart 2 and Honey Bump were the focus of two episodes of the Animal Planet channel Growing Up... series. Growing Up Grizzly (2001), hosted by Brad Pitt, focused on the cubs' first year. A second episode, Growing Up Grizzly 2 (2004), hosted by Jennifer Aniston, updated viewers on Bart and Honey Bump's life.