Chinese zoo denies its bears are humans in costume

[aziqbal]

Chinese zoo denies its bears are humans in costume​

Images posted online prompt questions as to whether the animals are real - after one is shown standing upright on slender hind legs.

Imageictures posted online prompted scepticism among some

A zoo in China has denied suggestions some of its bears might be people in costumes after photos of the animals standing like humans circulated online.

Hangzhou Zoo said on social media that the sun bears from Malaysia are smaller than other bears and look different, but insisted they were the real thing.


"Some people think I stand like a person," the post written from the bear's point of view said.

"It seems you don't understand me very well."

An employee who answered the phone at the zoo declined to talk about the bears but said visits were being arranged on Monday for reporters to see them.

Internet users questioned whether the zoo's bears were genuine after photos circulated showing one standing upright on slender hind legs.

"Because of the way they stand, some people online question whether they are 'humans in disguise,'" Chinese newspaper Hangzhou Daily said.


Sun bears are the size of large dogs, standing at most 1.3 metres (50 inches) tall on their hind legs, compared with up to 2.8 metres (9 feet) for grizzlies and other species, according to the zoo.



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Chinese zoo denies its bears are humans in costume

Images posted online prompt questions as to whether the animals are real - after one is shown standing upright on slender hind legs.

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[beijingwalker]

Why only China gets this much attention when this happens in all zoos in all other countries?

 

[SoulSpokesman]

@aziqbal

I doubt if PRC has any bears (or any other proper animal) in its zoos anyway. They would have been eaten up.

Regards

 

[beijingwalker]

@aziqbal

I doubt if PRC has any bears (or any other proper animal) in its zoos anyway. They would have been eaten up.

Regards

Tiny peanut size Indian brains never ceases to amuse us , lol

Brown bears attacked Chinese PLA's border outposts in Tibet

Brown bears attacked Chinese PLA's border outposts in Tibet

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[etylo]

@aziqbal

I doubt if PRC has any bears (or any other proper animal) in its zoos anyway. They would have been eaten up.

Regards

 

[beijingwalker]

One tourist opens the window of his room in a hostel and finds a total of 6 black bears waiting out of his window.

Roads are being overwhelmed by tourists this summer, traffic jam hit every mountain road, brown bears take this opportunity to come down to the roads asking for food

 

[beijingwalker]

The western media tries to hype this up and tell the world the China uses humans to pretend to be bears and everything in China is fake, but this would only damaged the abysmal western media's credibility further.

 

[KAL-EL]

It depends on how big of a dump it takes

 

[REhorror]

That's a strange looking bear, never seen it before.

 

[twocents]

Tiny peanut size Indian brains never ceases to amuse us , lol

Brown bears attacked Chinese PLA's border outposts in Tibet

Brown bears attacked Chinese PLA's border outposts in Tibet

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The exact term is "pea brain".

 

[hirobo2]

I watched this on Western media news website. The bear really looked like a person wearing pants until the bear got tired and sat down/climbed down from the rocks, then it was clear it was really a bear and not human in costume!

 

[SoulSpokesman]

@beijingwalker

One tourist opens the window of his room in a hostel and finds a total of 6 black bears waiting out of his window.

Were these 6 gentlemen on their way to the zoo or on the way back from their shift duty?

Regards