How do we feel this Wednesday? You know what? I was a little sad with one I did last week, so let's go with feel good. Okay, I thought we wanted to feel sad, so we wanted to... I thought we wanted some feel bad to make us feel sad. Oh, let's see. Let's do this one. Chinese zoo denies its bears are humans in disguise. Oh, I love this one. I hope it's not too mainstream for this podcast.
A zoo in eastern China is denying suggestions some of its bear bears may be people in costumes after photos of the animal standing like humans circulated online. I'm gonna say this bear does look a little suspicious as if a bear in a costume... human in a costume. Sun bears from Malaysia are smaller than other bears and look different, but are the real thing that Hangzhou? Hangzhou? Hangzhou. Hangzhou. Zoo said Monday on its social media account.
Well, some people think I stand like a person and quote said the boasting written from the bear's point of view. I mean that's not giving me anything. I hope yes. Why is the bear saying it's a human? I used to bear writing this as if it were human. It seems you don't understand me very well. I mean that makes me feel sad for the bear. They're really hitting me in the empathy feels right there.
An employee who answered the phone at the zoo declined to talk about the bears, but said visits were being arranged for reporters Monday to see them. Internet users questioned whether the zoo's bears were real after photos. Sorry, is the bear gonna have a press conference? He might. Bear will answer any questions. I mean, he did already provide his statement. So I don't know if he has anything further to say.
Internet users questioned whether the zoo's bears were real after photos circulated showing one standing upright on slender hind legs. Well, because of the way they stand, some people online question whether they are humans in disguise the newspaper. Hangzhou. What was it again? Hangzhou. Hangzhou, Daily said. It just doesn't make sense. Don't like that.
Some bears are the size of large dogs standing at most 1.3 meters tall on their hind legs compared with up to 2.8 meters for grizzlies and other species. According to the zoo, other Chinese zoos have been accused of trying to pass off dogs died to look like wolves or African cats and donkeys painted to look like zebras. And that's the end of the article. To be fair, some bears aren't species of bears we really know much about in the West.
They're very similar to moon bears, which are from the Asian continent as well. They have such a weird head shape with like their neck that it does look like almost a head that you could put over a human to make them look like that. Well, it totally does. And they definitely stand differently and act differently than bears as we're used to in the West. I get where it is. Just seeing the video, it does seem to act like moon bears I've seen. So, it does seem to do that.
Moon bears or sun bears for that matter. But moon bears are like the most adorable bear I've ever seen. Look at these guys and their hair like kind of like fluffed out and their ears are huge. Yeah. These are adorable. And these sun bears, they're weird. They are putting out statements on Facebook. If need be, I guess they will defend themselves and be like, look, I know I look human, but I'm not. I'm a bear. I stand for me and no one else. Yeah. No gasplating, though. I do like that.
Yeah. I do understand the explanation, too, of people seem to like when animals exhibit human behaviors. So they seem to get rewards for acting certain ways. So like the whole fact that it's standing is likely because it gets like praise and possibly even treats thrown into its cage because it's standing. So it's just kind of treating it this way is kind of making it go this way. True. The act working as luck. It just reinforces the behavior that it's acting. Yeah. But I love the photo of it.
It's like standing with his arm up as if it's saying hello. And then it shows a shot from behind and it has a hank hill. But like there's no but and it's like. It's in fact like wrinkled up to. Yeah, it is like it's wearing a suit. And the part of that, too, is because bears have evolved to be on four legs. So if it's on two legs, it's going to have that extra skin there because they haven't developed the quads and glutes. Like we have to walk by peddly. It's skip leg day, that's for sure.
Yes. So I hope that made us feel happy on this Wednesday and also the fact there's only two more days until the Halloween episode starts. You should all be happy to. I left out my sad facts about Moon Bears. Do not throw those in. Let's end the episode quick. There you guys go. We'll see you Friday without the sad facts.