This sculpture is made of stainless steel wire, steel structural bars, and fiberglass-polymer concrete. All these materials create a single composite material we could call wire-mesh-steel-reinforced-high-strength concrete. It is incredibly strong, able to withstand a collision with a car traveling about 60 mph (Mother and Cub probably saved the driver's life by absorbing the impact before the car hit a nearby brick wall). These bears are in Antioch California where a tradition has arisen around them. For most major holidays locals dress the bears up; for instance at Christmas they wear Santa hats and on Valentines Day hearts and ribbons.
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