Originally published at: Zoo in China insists this is a real bear and not a human in disguise, but really? (video) | Boing Boing
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The BBC had a sun bear expert from Chester Zoo on yesterday. Apparently, the baggy skin is an evolutionary adaptation to help them against other predators. A tiger or leopard might get a good grip on the bear’s skin, but the bear still has enough freedom with all that slack to turn round and whack it.
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The way she sits down tells me it’s a bear and not a human. You try sitting down like that while wearing a huge bulky suit.
When she sits down you can also get a better idea of her body proportions, which really don’t suggest human-in-a-bear-suit.
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Looks like a bear to me. Bears can look a lot like people when they stand up and walk, etc. One reason why there are so many legends around them.
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Angela the Sunbear, “I am a real bear; but the zoo is a fake.”
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More like, “Hey, I’m one of you, let me out!”
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Compare the results of a human in a collie suit.
His movements are nowhere close to what an actual dog makes (unless it was severely crippled).
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Reboinged from just yesterday. Still on the front page for me.
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Sun bears do look like humans in a bear suit when the stand up. Same with Red Pandas, though they’d be very small humans in red panda suits.
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Ironically the zoo is run by bears in people suits.
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Obviously a real bear. Just look at it move on the ground.
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If only it was a dog. He could work out a crossover deal with short-haired-collie guy.
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More of those plz, thnx.
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such a lack of -basic- knowledge!
this is the kind of “article” I would never want to read
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Lucky you didn’t read it then.
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The manimal is being replaced by A.I.
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It is a lot to bear.
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