The world’s smallest bear is finally having its moment in the sun – thanks to a viral video that sparked a conspiracy theory on Chinese social media. Public interest in sun bears, one of Asia ...

They’re the bearer of good news. Experts said a video of a sun bear captured at China’s Hangzhou Zoo is legitimate. Over the weekend, footage of the bear seen standing upright and waving to ...

‘Forgotten’ bears under threat Native to the tropical forests of Southeast Asia, sun bears are the world’s smallest bear species. Adult bears stand at heights of up to 70 centimeters tall ...

a person in a bear costume, after a video of the sun bear standing upright and interacting with visitors went viral. In a 15-second clip posted on July 27 to Douyin, the Chinese version of TikTok ...

There has been a 30% increase in visitor numbers at Hangzhou Zoo in the eastern Zhejiang province a day after the video of the Malaysian sun bear named Angela standing remarkably upright in its ...

Angela the sun bear has left people around the world baffled since footage of the human-like zoo animal first emerged - with fans debating whether she really is a bear or a person in a costume.

The video indeed showed an animal — the sun bear, which is the smallest bear in the world — at China's Hangzhou Zoo. "Real bear? Or man in costume?," one social media user asked, another said ...

They also have a 12-inch (30 centimeters) tongue to help them get their food — the longest tongue of any bear. Sun bears also stand to check out their surroundings and to scare away other ...

The creature in question is the sun bear (Helarctos malayanus), which is born with a marking around its neck that looks like a gorgeous yellow/orange necklace. YouTuber Cam Whitnall, who lives and ...

“I am a Malayan sun bear!” By Alan Yuhas and Chang Che Sun, moon, grizzly, black, spectacled, sloth: Bears all over the world can stand, shuffle, totter and walk on two legs, though they ...

A zoo in eastern China has denied suggestions that some of its bears were people dressed in costume after videos of a Malayan sun bear standing on its hind legs – and looking uncannily human ...