Fact Check: Did The Bear get nominated for Guinness Book of World Records? No

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Hyderabad: A video of a lioness chasing a bear is making rounds on social media with an unrelated claim. The viral post claims that the video has been nominated for the Guinness Book of World Records. The caption of the post reads, “This video is nominated for the Guinness Book of World records. Amazing effort by the videographer.”

Is this legit? Let’s find out

Fact Check

NewsMeter found the claim to be false.

On performing a reverse image search, we found the same video uploaded on a YouTube channel with the title ‘L’Ours (1988) - the cougar scene’ dated October 31, 2007.

Taking the movie’s name as a cue, we performed a keyword search and found that the movie is originally known as The Bear directed by Jean Jacques Annaud. In the 1988 French movie, a bear cub is left alone, unable to feed or defend itself, when its mother is killed in a rockslide. Eventually, the cub attempts to bond with a male grizzly, which initially ignores it. When the grizzly is pursued by hunters, the cub comes to its aid and wins the grizzly’s affection. However, when one of the hunters captures the cub, the grizzly must confront the armed hunters. The tale is told from the cub’s perspective.

We searched the official website of Guinness World Records, but couldn’t find any record of The Bear being nominated in 3,322 results on the website.

Hence, it is clear that the movie was not nominated or included in the Guinness Book of World Records.