Officials from the Hangzhou Zoo in Eastern China have refuted claims suggesting that their sun bears are merely humans disguised in costumes, maintaining the animals are indeed authentic bears.
"Some people think I stand like a person," the Hangzhou Zoo wrote, pretending to be a bear. "It seems you don't understand me very well."
A video that features a bear named Angela, standing upright and waving, went viral on Chinese social media in the latter part of July, as reported by Reuters.
A Chinese zoo says their Malaysian sun bears are real, despite rumors spreading that they're "humans in disguise."pic.twitter.com/qVCRT1Khvv
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Despite the zoo's assertions that the bears are not humans, an influx of tourists has been reported at the location to verify the claims for themselves, according to Reuters. Chao News, a Chinese news outlet, has stated that there has been an approximate 30% rise in visitor numbers to the zoo since the video was shared.
"After seeing this bear standing up on the internet, I wanted to see how it looks in real life, so I came here," said a man with the surname You explained, defending himself he only half-believed these were real bears.
Despite the zoo's assertions that the bears are not humans, an influx of tourists has been reported at the location to verify the claims for themselves, according to Reuters. Chao News, a Chinese news outlet, has stated that there has been an approximate 30% rise in visitor numbers to the zoo since the video was shared.
"Because of the way they stand, some people online question whether they are ‘humans in disguise,’" said the Chinese newspaper Hangzhou Daily.
The Hangzhou Zoo additionally pointed out that the high temperatures would make it entirely unfeasible for a human to don a bear costume for an extended duration.
"Our zoo is government-run, so that kind of situation would not happen," said a staffer at the Hangzhou Zoo said on their WeChat account.
Of course. Everyone knows the Chinese government would never do anything sketchy or dishonest.
This is a real bear, not a human dressed in costumes! A four-year-old Malayan sun bear named Angela in a Hangzhou zoo went viral on China's social media as a video showed the world's smallest bear standing upright and waving to tourists just like a human. pic.twitter.com/Azv2tTVJhv
— Yicai Global 第一财经 (@yicaichina) August 1, 2023
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