A black bear in Colorado has been pausing and posing in front of motion-detecting cameras, snapping hundreds of “selfies”.

On one camera, roughly 400 out of 580 images were of the same bear.

Most of the other animals at Open Space and Mountain Parks (OSMP) in Boulder simply walk by, searching for food or resting places. But not this bear.

This animal “took a special interest” in the cameras, an OSMP spokesperson said, and seized the “opportunity.”

“These pictures made us laugh, and we thought others would, too,”spokesperson Philip Yates said in a statement

The OSMP posted some of the images on Twitter and the surprise selfie star soon caught the eye of many social media users.

“Sure, it’s cute when the bear takes 400 selfies with the trail cam. But when I do it, I get a letter advising me that I should have taken a left at the trail split and that I was on private property,” said Twitter user @EscpFrmFlatland.