Polar bear cub in Japan goes viral for his love of traffic cones

A polar bear cub residing in an aquarium in Japan's Akita Prefecture has gone viral for his love of traffic cones. Mobile phone footage obtained by the Associated Press showed the cub, named Momota, pushing his head inside a cone and poking his mother's back.

TOKYO (Kyodo) -- Climber traffic fell more than 30 percent in northern Japan's Hokkaido and Tohoku regions between April and June compared with the sa