Fuck zoos anyways, amirite? This is much better. Paying a person a liveable wage? Giving them fresh air, sun, exercise? Making zoo-goers happy and educated? Now that's what I call progress!!
That’s fucking hilarious tbh. Sun bears do be looking like a dude in a bear suit, right next to labradoodles
There was a legit picture of a dope ass sun bear posted here not long ago... on bearsite.. and people people thought is was a person in costume.
Thanks, this is the exact type of response I was attempting to elicit with this post.
Bears are 100% people that's for sure, they're just non human persons.
If you're brought up to believe animals are thoughtless automatons seeing an animal display obvious signs of personhood I can understand why you'd call it a human in an animal suit. Especially bears, they're probably the most relatable non-human persons outside of apes.
If it helpful to define "obvious signs of personhood" as "human-like posture and proportions"?
Bears look like dudes when they're on all 4s too.
I also think most people if they had to pick other non human-persons, would have Elephants as one of their first 3 choices. And elephants don't look like us at all.
WTF. Malaysian sun bears look pretty human. Can CNN not try every excuse to demonise China.
That's insane. The article has a guy who talks about how they'll stand on their hinds legs for long periods of time. Makes you wonder what the species would look like 2 hundred thousand years from now.
Makes you wonder what the species would look like 2 hundred thousand years from now.
At this rate, extinct :(
I don't know, but I hope it involves an evolved form of break-dancing and kung fu.
Dope ass picture. I have spent more time then I will admit looking at sun bear pictures and usually they are portrayed more like this.
Show
Pls Xi can I just have one sun bear.
like a decade ago, i read this syncretic southeastern NA indigenous cosmology once talking about the mythical origin of various phenomena, medicine, disease, etc. anyway, the myth of bears was that they used to be humans. they were distinct group of early humans who turned away from civilized life. building homes/settlements, sewing crops, engaging in trade, developing communal ritual. the humans who would become bears were like, "nah, this is not for us" and turned their backs on the other humans, hiding from them in the forests. the people saw them as a living example of primitivism, and not to be followed along their path because it made them "foolish".
the video of that goofus standing up right and waving reminded me of that.
I adore your comment. It sounds like an alternate Pom-Poko plot, TBH
Their surveillance bears to spy on citizens and report to xi
Xi isn't even real, he's just a smaller Chinese person in a Xi suit
Sun bears are tropical so they are thiner because of allens rule, so their proortions are more humanlike. When bears stand uprigth they stand on their heels unlike most large mamals. Thats why their posture looks earily human. And thats why sir berington remained undiscovered for so long. As a contrast take daji, since she was a fox spirit she walked on the balls of her feet. Leading to the misconception that her feet were small, and ultimatley to the practice of footbinding.
Thank you. If that is a suit, its a one-of-a-kind level of brilliance. It would be cheaper to get a real bear.
I'm going to nominate the short film for an upcoming movie night. Delightful. http://bearsdiscoverfire.com/
Do humans have an instinct to identify human-looking patterns in completely unrelated things?
:skinner-thinking:
No, it's the Chinese who are inherently duplicitous.
No, it's the Chinese who are inherently duplicitous.
It was Chinese visitors to the zoo that raised the issue. The zoo is actually in a relatively small backwater (by Chinese standards at least) of only 11 million people. Not a lot of foreigners there to stir things up.
Yeah, I know it's a meme on Chinese social media too. Just the way it's reported by CNN and other Westoid media has this undercurrent.
the way it's reported by CNN and other Westoid media has this undercurrent.
Tabloids are notoriously trashy, and talk shit about pretty much all the sources they report on. Hell, the British tabloids are even worse, IMO.
