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Sun bear in China zoo sparks online debate
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Күн бұрынA zoo in China says its sun bear is real and not a person dressed in costume after a viral video ignited internet debate. NBC News’ Janis Mackey Frayer has more on what experts are saying about the video showing the bear standing on its hind legs and waving.
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@shawnmatthews5944 Жыл бұрын
It’s clearly a bear in a bear costume!
@picklenik9658 Жыл бұрын
Wake up sheeple, it’s two bear cubs standing on each others shoulders in a bear costume!
@Nick-vw1lm Жыл бұрын
No other explanation is valid as far as I’m concerned 👌🏻
@rabbit0664 Жыл бұрын
Oh yeah. If you look really closely you can see the fur.
@loadingnewads Жыл бұрын
Actually that’s a real bear, a Malaysian sun bear(and same thing happened in Korea too, 2 hears stood up and walked toward visitors lol)
@richj2709 Жыл бұрын
Fake bear
@eco2geek. Жыл бұрын
The bear is waving because she has to -- it's a claws in her contract.
@nikkyro03 Жыл бұрын
Oml ....hahaha...you did not just pull a dad joke outta pocket....for some reason, where most people roll their eyes at goofy dad jokes, they are my fav and 99% actually make me laugh a for real laugh. When my son was younger, he started telling me some goofy dad jokes one day. He said what do you call a cow with no legs? Ground Beef. I giggled my butt off and after that he would tell me some every day. I think thats why i love them. But unless its a real stupid one, a dad joke will make me laugh every time so thank you for that laugh
@87teggy Жыл бұрын
Lol. 😂
@eco2geek. Жыл бұрын
@@nikkyro03 It's always good to meet someone who likes silly puns as much as I do 🙂 🙂
@bastard_ts Жыл бұрын
🐻 or 🧸
@SniqrsFFA Жыл бұрын
God bless you lol
@peachreed Жыл бұрын
It’s just uncanny the way it’s standing. The excess skin makes it look like it’s wearing pants with a baggy top.
@Alex-vz2jz Жыл бұрын
Not really. Bears have always been able to stand and sit.
@robertmontague1216 Жыл бұрын
It just needs a hat and tie and then it's off to Jellystone Park
@politecat32 Жыл бұрын
@@Alex-vz2jzyeah...sunbear just look weird because its smaller and have less fat than the American known version lizzo.
@meowky4001 Жыл бұрын
@@politecat32LMAOOO
@cozzazee4043 Жыл бұрын
God your ignorant. Animals can do more then you think. Get off your phone and watch, I hope you love hiking, pmsl.
@laskey2175 Жыл бұрын
The bear has learned how to get attention and now he got everyone's attention.
@SLC-Smudge42 Жыл бұрын
Exactly! Animals are friggin smart man. If I threw a treat at my dog every time it itches his a$$ he’d be up there all day!
@tr1bes Жыл бұрын
That's Yogi in disguise underneath.
@rorykeegan1895 Жыл бұрын
She ... It's name is Angela!
@dmandipper9102 Жыл бұрын
The unbearable weight of massive talent
@dmandipper9102 Жыл бұрын
@@GanF147 well at least 50 others liked it so thanks I wish the thumbs down button still worked for you friend.
@Johnflaxman974 Жыл бұрын
Nailed it 🎉
@suntzu1269 Жыл бұрын
@@dmandipper9102walking w
@LouisWinthorpe622 Жыл бұрын
The unweighable talent of massive bear.
@joegarage5569 Жыл бұрын
Everyone: Why are you wearing that stupid bear suit? The Bear: Why are you wearing that stupid man suit?
@ireid6786 Жыл бұрын
Oh brother... even a bear cant be a bear anymore.
@RafiBarides Жыл бұрын
As a sun bear, I can say this is %100 real
@vintagearisen Жыл бұрын
You know, I'm something of a sun bear myself
@LouisWinthorpe622 Жыл бұрын
As a bear's son, I can say 100% that's my mom.
@Dreadlk Жыл бұрын
PT Barnum would be proud that Suckers are still being born everyday. If it was a real bear they would have let TV personnel get in much closer and film a lot more of the bear doing it's daily activities, as a matter of fact a full 30 minute documentary would make this bear an international sensation. If they can alleviate all fears that it is a fake then attendance would go up by 100% or more. PT Barnum was famous for things like the Mermaid and other oddities. The trick was that you never got to look at them long enough to figure out if it was real or not.
@ilhamtlam5250 Жыл бұрын
As a drunk man once told me "If that's an actor 😂 he's the best bear actor I've ever seen"
@Sidicas Жыл бұрын
So it would seem.
@joshbogard6740 Жыл бұрын
Jackie moon?
@DeidresStuff Жыл бұрын
I have been to Disneyland enough times to know what a person in a bear costume looks like.
@mariotaz Жыл бұрын
Clearly not
@klocke-hx3xl Жыл бұрын
It looks pretty much like that, until it's had enough and quits.
@anindowmohsin1886 Жыл бұрын
You should’ve stayed there and kept looking. It’s a real bear
@southamptonfan3460 2 ай бұрын
clearly you havent entered school
@MadeIn619 Жыл бұрын
If we want to get to the bottom of this we just need to ask the bear how it identifies.
@captainchris817 Жыл бұрын
I love when funny stuff like this gets national attention, it lets people learn about the wildlife in question! Sun bears are great (I mean if you ever see one don’t approach it, cause that is very much still a bear)
@sp4c3y Жыл бұрын
i personally think its a bear in a human costume in a bear costume
@candyluna2929 Жыл бұрын
bingo!!!
@chriscarrol9373 Жыл бұрын
Victor Vitoria the zoo play.
@marylynnjerome Жыл бұрын
How nice of the bear to wave like that. They must wave to each other consistently.
@slomo4672 Жыл бұрын
Why are bears with a crescent 🌙 on their chests called sun bears not moon bears?
@Fuzhou Жыл бұрын
Some dude thought it was the sun and just named it that way.
@sweaterrpoorlyknit Жыл бұрын
Neither. They are called Teddiursa
@Lob0nation Жыл бұрын
Interesting point
@DaisyPusher Жыл бұрын
It’s an eclipse
@derralgerken Жыл бұрын
CEASE YOUR INVESTIGATION!!
@scottbutler5421 Жыл бұрын
I think when the bear was smoking a cigarette made me wonder if it was a human or if just every living thing in China smokes.
@ytzpilot Жыл бұрын
When I saw it driving an UBER for extra income I was like no way that’s a real bear 😂
@Sebastian_Michaelis Жыл бұрын
So this entire 'story' is just people showing off how they have no idea what sun bears are before today. Fun fact, sun bears are weird creatures. That's all there is to it.
@candyluna2929 Жыл бұрын
First time hearing of such animal I am impressed
@lewstone5430 Жыл бұрын
That’s mean calling them ‘weird’.
@zachfreeman2502 Жыл бұрын
The whole story is American media entertaining the idea that everything in China is a lie so that we're distracted hating people on the opposite side of the planet instead of focusing on our own problems.
@hirzuko Жыл бұрын
@@lewstone5430sun bears have much worse problems like being kept in small enclosures and being malnourished.
@senny- Жыл бұрын
Yeah, fr lol. Plus, if I'm ever going to wear a bear costume to trick people, I'll act more like a traditional bear, not act sus like this.
@supadupahilton6848 Жыл бұрын
Q: "Dude, what are you going to be for Halloween"? A: "I don't know, maybe... Sun Bear??"
@ericheine2414 Жыл бұрын
San Francisco Zoo used to have Sun Bears. They are a smaller bear. They walk with a certain shuffle. The body language of this bear is human. Sun bears are really cute- once you see real ones they will be one of your favorite bears. They do have interesting feet..
@BillyAu Жыл бұрын
Bears do this in the wild and people think it's Bigfoot 😅🎉
@levelup2xs Жыл бұрын
that bear is gorgeous, protect those bears!
@phototristan Жыл бұрын
We humans really need to stop anthropomorphizing animals.
@Huobaojiqi Ай бұрын
Wow I just learned a new word thank you random person
@Tikolico Жыл бұрын
Looks real to me, seems like it learned to mimic humans, probably for treats. There's videos out there of bears standing on sidewalks in neighborhoods looking all creepy. If you think it's fake, go high-five it lol.
@anthonyplanzo1082 Жыл бұрын
I've seen videos and pictures of Santa Claus and he looks more real than whatever tf this is
@AliceP. Жыл бұрын
Can you link one or some of these videos here? Just curious.
@DonnaChamberson Жыл бұрын
@@AliceP.No he can’t, Alice. KZfaq doesn’t allow links, dumb dumb.
@virginiep8505 Жыл бұрын
@@AliceP.Of Santa or the bears?
@whiteflameME Жыл бұрын
@@AliceP. kzfaq.infoSBULNsWmi6E was hard to find "bear wave"
@CB-ke7eq Жыл бұрын
Leave it up to the internet "experts" 😂
@87teggy Жыл бұрын
Yeah, the "experts" that don't know anything except how to post things they know nothing about on social media. I know what you mean.
@87teggy Жыл бұрын
Have you seen the TikTok of "experts" that show you how to survive a plane crash? Those are ridiculous.
@dave23024 Жыл бұрын
You can tell it's real because of how close it's getting to the edge. There's no way a person in a bear suit will walk right up to the edge like that. Plus, when it almost fell forward, it only used its front legs to readjust and didn't even move its back legs. A person would have stood up and jumped back.
@lalomontoyajr.9282 Жыл бұрын
Ya. You can see the power of it when it readjusted after falling forward. No human has the ab/core power to do that.
@vintagearisen Жыл бұрын
I mean just look at the way its face, head, and tongue move. It's probably cheaper to buy a whole new bear than build an animatronic that sophisticated.
@wetluv4 Жыл бұрын
People have been blown off the cliffs at the grand canyon because they stand on the very edge.
@dave23024 Жыл бұрын
@@wetluv4 Yeah, that's what I'm saying. Plus, I think the person's visibility would be so limited, it would be like wearing a loose-fitting blindfold. I'd be scared to death to stand on the edge like that.
@nanochic 10 ай бұрын
I think she’s just skinny but otherwise looks like a regular bear
@Boiiinito Жыл бұрын
The puns in this video💀. I can’t bear this laughter😹. at least news reporters have humour too 🤣.
@themadviking5746 Жыл бұрын
That bear looks like it dances on Disney parade floats .
@loomspace Жыл бұрын
Many indigenous people considered bears a 'brother' to humans. If you google a skinned bear, its body is shockingly similar in appearance to a human.
@mondayquarterback9174 Жыл бұрын
Yep.
@its-_-foxgrrr6041 Жыл бұрын
That is correct, look at the bears belly before it stands up. It's real.
@DaisyPusher Жыл бұрын
The royal guards in England should stop wearing their babies skin on their heads..
@aofeizhang8735 Жыл бұрын
Most mammals' skeletons look alike. Bats' skeletons also look like human
@edbell5771 Жыл бұрын
Wow at first look I thought it was fake, but that's awesome. I've never seen anything like that.
@j.l.torres4610 Жыл бұрын
The bear yelled "Helloooooh!" That's a pretty sus bear
@Funontherun391 Жыл бұрын
😂😂😂
@teomai Жыл бұрын
I can validate that is 100% true. That's a real Sun Bear. How do I know this? Because I'm from where Sun Bear native land. Here we got 2 Sun Bears. One is the Malay Sun Bear (as you see in the video) and the other one is Borneo Sun Bear (this is where I'm now). I used to see Sun Bear standing like that when I was visiting the Sun Bear center in Sandakan.
@azmanabas8425 Жыл бұрын
How many of them left in your forest?? I read somewhere they are considered as vulnerable species because of intense deforestation and poaching for Chinese traditional medicine
@bill392 Жыл бұрын
That bear has some nerve standing there buck naked in broad daylight. Disgusting. I can't bear it.
@arconeagain Жыл бұрын
This case calls for the Scooby Doo team. I can see the reveal now. 'And I would have got away with it if it weren't for you meddling kids!'
@ElGaby323 Жыл бұрын
The loose skin on it's back makes it looks like it's a person wearing pijamas. But it's a real bear.
@pinkroses135 Жыл бұрын
Imagine one at your bedroom window during a midnight thunderstorm 😂
@cheri3000 Жыл бұрын
Literally the next article i scroll to after this..."Man who spent $14K to transform himself into collie" DUDE WHAT?!?!?! What a bizarre world we live in
@noelitonoelito Жыл бұрын
Humans: I don't know who or what you are... Bear: I know who I am! I'm a bear, playing a bear, disguised as another bear!
@AnneAnderson-ve5ig Жыл бұрын
He's not the only one to stand upright, a 🐻 was filmed walking here in the United States, last year.
@fatthor2117 Жыл бұрын
Why don’t you hop into the cage and find out?😮
@oggies3000 Жыл бұрын
"yo this bear fake af" "no sir they're just goofy asl"
@___beyondhorizon4664 Жыл бұрын
Did we just head the bear said "👋 hello"??????🤣😂🤣
@Monkaisubi Жыл бұрын
😂 IMAGINE HE SPOKE BACK TO HER IN ENGLISH
@tsangdennis1953 Жыл бұрын
Let me clarify this. This bear has a look that resembles very much human and therefore they put on a bear costume to it to make it look more bearly
@notvenom1152 Жыл бұрын
Well it bearly worked at all
@kennethhamilton5633 Жыл бұрын
Haaaa😂
@andyC95 Жыл бұрын
Your so cute and funny!
@seagitwibo7967 Жыл бұрын
Americans seen Sun bear think oooh its a fake its resemble a Utah Jazz Bear mascot.
@limitlessfury3963 Жыл бұрын
It's clearly a sun bear. Even my dog tries to replicate human behavior so the standing up thing isn't even remotely suspicious.
@mikes8116 Жыл бұрын
Dang! The whole report was one big pun!
@robertmontague1216 Жыл бұрын
Reminds of Monty Python's Meaning Of Life were some British soldiers in Africa encounter two guys dressed up like a tiger doing a promotional for coffee 🤣
@candyluna2929 Жыл бұрын
Today i found out that this type of bear exist
@_Majoras Жыл бұрын
0:34 "phd" w/ a nose ring 🤣 how professional
@beardedloon77 5 ай бұрын
I worked in that zoo and part of our duties for all staff was to do a 3 hour(never longer or you could get heatstroke) shift in the sunbear outfits, we all have to do it and sometimes when the only people around are fellow Chinese we talk to them but never infront of foreigners lol.
@squibblywibbly8929 Жыл бұрын
The puns were a bit much😂
@user-cz9jf1ec8s Жыл бұрын
So they allow people to feed the bears at that zoo? Wonder how this policy would make the other animals act…
@jimiknewstubb Жыл бұрын
Make it eat a few salmon and watch how it does
@mitchkman Жыл бұрын
100% a real bear. American blacks bears can look like human as well, especially when they stand upright. That’s where all the Bigfoot/Sasquatch sightings come from. Sun bears, in particular, do naturally have a very human appearance.
@KabobHope Жыл бұрын
This is the most hilarious controversy in awhile.
@liquiddevil7396 Жыл бұрын
“Me? I know who I am! I’m a bear, playing the bear, disguised as another bear!”
@davidhall6464 Жыл бұрын
Next up: a bear in a human costume
@jarrettcrain76 Жыл бұрын
Never seen a bear with a lumpy butt
@jayceecee8651 Жыл бұрын
If we could actually get images and videos that didn't look like they were taken from a 3rd party camera, it would help to put this rumor to rest.
@lewstone5430 Жыл бұрын
A ‘3rd party camera’?
@jayceecee8651 Жыл бұрын
@@lewstone5430 my comment disappeared... Let's try again...3rd party, meaning a cheap knock off, like one of those items you'd get from a website that deals in super cheap products.
@jayceecee8651 Жыл бұрын
@@brandall101 if you click on this video and watch it, you will see those bears too, and learn a little bit about them. Interestingly enough, those images/footage are shown in high resolution.... Unlike the ones from the China Zoo. But, I digress. Some of us actually do read the articles/watch the entire video before commenting.
@Huobaojiqi Ай бұрын
There is no rumor😑people are just assuming this bear is fake because it's from china but guess what....it's a sun bear it's supposed to look like that and if you don't believe go look it up on google
@chuckm6274 Жыл бұрын
"That bear is wearing people clothes"
@ILDG86 Жыл бұрын
Visitors to Bear witness!! No pun intended 😂
@Lady.Luck. Жыл бұрын
I haven't seen sun bear behavior much but bears can comically act like humans from what I've seen.
@smitchwhite4290 Жыл бұрын
Sun Bear: I work so hard from 9 to 5 every day, how dare you accused me of using body double during office hours...
@bill392 Жыл бұрын
I could bearly watch the video.
@TEAMCHURCHGIRL Жыл бұрын
This must be April fool in august lol
@PassengersMusic777 Жыл бұрын
It’s more of a bear than NBC is journalism
@F1derful. Жыл бұрын
It’s real, unlike fox noose
@PassengersMusic777 Жыл бұрын
@@F1derful. wow, that’s funny. You are Colbert level
@LEO_CXLIV Жыл бұрын
Looks like a costume.
@87teggy Жыл бұрын
Any publicity is good publicity. But it's a real bear people!
@GaneshKrishnan Жыл бұрын
I can't bear these kind of news anymore 😔
@w.a4856 Жыл бұрын
That is one dedicated cosplayer, if it isn’t a real bear!
@masguapoako Жыл бұрын
As a great man from Chicago once said *"The Bear"*
@stumsi Жыл бұрын
And that's important "news"? Whole YT blabbering about this nonsense...It looks like a giraffe to me!
@ilynpayne7491 Жыл бұрын
1:15 holy s*** how did these guys put a dog and pretended it was a freaking lion😂😂
@kindregards912 Жыл бұрын
Bears have always looked human when they stand. They stand all the time. Chester Zoo hasn't got a clue they have institutionalised bears why not ask someone who actually lives near them.
@austineobieze9968 Жыл бұрын
If doubt it , you can walk in and ask the bear your self.
@AnonymousAlcoholic772 Жыл бұрын
Man, if the bear insists its a bear i gotta go with the bear. Why would a bear lie? That would just be silly.
@theripleyeffect5203 Жыл бұрын
The real bear will eat the guy in the costume at some point.
@Bug_Bait Жыл бұрын
Sun bears are actually just that weird.
@Eagle-Striker Жыл бұрын
Just people underestimating animals as usual. The bear is just smart enough to understand that imitating the human visitors (it sees thousands per day) sometimes leads to food reward.
@julieporter7805 Жыл бұрын
Or is it a bear in a human costume?🤔
@jasminealwedyan874 Жыл бұрын
I'm sure it's a bear. But I can see why people would think it's someone wearing a costume. I wonder if that is why so many people claim to have seen big foot or the abonminable snow man/yeti. There are just really talented bears walking around lol.
@jc2333 Жыл бұрын
I’ve never seen a skinny bear before.
@jamiew9289 Жыл бұрын
Sun bears always look like a human in a bear suit
@darksoul479 Жыл бұрын
Oh please. That's a person wearing a bear costume.
@j.t.miller1641 Жыл бұрын
The fact this is even a debate is sad
@danr154 Жыл бұрын
Big bears be doin weird thangs sometimes.
@hovermo74 Жыл бұрын
It’s so weird cause some angles it totally looks like a bear and then others 😒
@ilusions4 6 ай бұрын
I miss when gossip channels had 5 views per video.
@ObinnaOkehie Жыл бұрын
Trying to pass a dog as a lion. Wow! 😂😂😂
@Huobaojiqi Ай бұрын
Dogs don't move like that your ignorant
@AL_YZ Жыл бұрын
That's Tom Cruise in Mission Impossible 6.
@Enivri Жыл бұрын
It’s funny that whenever something happens on a zoo, they always go to Chester Zoo for advice. It is supposedly one of the best Zoos in the world.
@northernsamba7388 Жыл бұрын
That bear is definitely grinning and bearing it, at all the humans with less intelligence around the twitter sphere!
@randomguy2100 Жыл бұрын
Is this The Onion? Are you guys… is this a joke?
@jacobsdescendant4240 Жыл бұрын
Moab is out of control 🤣🤣🤣
@bobbywalker2980 Жыл бұрын
Before the bear necessities, the simple bear necessities.
@superduperfelixparker6252 Жыл бұрын
Where’s his tail? 🫢
@JeromeyRome90 Жыл бұрын
Bears are like humans/dogs lol
@amain7965 Жыл бұрын
Is this really comparable to a dog in a lion costume?
@drjekelmrhyde Жыл бұрын
Wait till they see a raccoon walking on 2 legs.
@whatwouldgordonramsaydo Жыл бұрын
IT WOULDNT LOOK LIKE THAT IF IT WAS BEING PROPERLY FED
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