they could not bear let this happen again.
Months after speculation that bears at a Chinese zoo were actually people in disguise, images of pandas sitting and eating like humans at the country’s Chongqing Zoo are making viewers suspicious once again.
The mainland animal sanctuary showed four of its beloved black and white bears walking up to a table and sitting on chairs before adorably eating as if they were people inside their enclosure.
Suspicions of cheating quickly arose on social media platforms, including X.
“Are you sure it’s not someone in panda suits?” one user commented, according to the Daily Mail.
“This video just reinforces my theory that pandas are actually humans in panda suits. “That’s not a real animal,” added another.
Images of pandas in a Chinese zoo have raised suspicions that they are actually people in disguise. Costfoto/NurPhoto/Shutterstock
“I wouldn’t even be mad if it was someone in a suit. At least that’s another free bear,” chimed in a third.
However, others took the pandas at face value.
“That’s pretty good at the end of the clip, [it] He does it exactly the way bears do. It would be difficult for a man to sit like this,” one wrote.
The dinner for four dates back to last summer’s incident at the Hangzhou Zoo involving a suspiciously human-like sun bear named Angela, which was seen standing perfectly on its hind legs.
Photographs of giant pandas in a Chinese zoo may be fake, according to some amateur sleuths. Cfoto/DDP via ZUMA
Experts, along with the zoo itself, have since said that Angela is not an imposter.
Since that previous incident, the zoo has enjoyed a 30% increase in visitors and reportedly welcomes 20,000 people a day.
However, the concept of fake zoo animals (there have been similar accusations of dogs painted to look like wolves and donkeys like zebras in China) is not something to be taken lightly.
Some believe the cute posing pandas were real. Costfoto/NurPhoto/Shutterstock
In 2009, Taiwan’s Taipei Times published a satirical April Fool’s Day article in which it joked that two pandas gifted by the Chinese government to the Taipei Zoo were actually forest bears painted brown.
The zoo unleashed its inner beast in an angry response.
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Source: vtt.edu.vn