Chinese zoo denies its bears are people in costume

A zoo in China has denied ideas a few of its bears could be people in costumes after images of the animals standing like people circulated on-line.

Hangzhou Zoo stated on social media that the solar bears from Malaysia are smaller than different bears and look completely different, however insisted they had been the actual factor.

“Some people think I stand like a person,” the publish written from the bear’s viewpoint stated.

“It seems you don’t understand me very well.”

An worker who answered the telephone on the zoo declined to speak in regards to the bears however stated visits had been being organized on Monday for reporters to see them.

Internet customers questioned whether or not the zoo’s bears had been real after images circulated displaying 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 stated.

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Sun bears are the scale of enormous canines, standing at most 1.3 metres (50 inches) tall on their hind legs, in contrast with as much as 2.8 metres (9 toes) for grizzlies and different species, in line with the zoo.

Other Chinese zoos have been accused of attempting to go off canines with their fur dyed and reduce to appear like wolves or African cats, whereas a zoo in Egypt beforehand denied it had painted donkeys to appear like zebras.