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.

SEPANG, Jan 6 — The endangered Malayan sun bear is the Visit Malaysia Year 2026 campaign mascot, ... The Batik Air aircraft ...

Angela, a Malayan sun bear at a zoo in Hangzhou, capital of Zhejiang province, has become a “superstar” in China. A short video on Douyin, the Chinese version of TikTok, showed Angela standing ...

A sun bear stands in its enclosure at Hangzhou Zoo in Hangzhou, China, on Aug. 1. The zoo has denied the animal in the social media video is a human in a costume. AFP - Getty Images ...

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 ...

A sun bear in Berlin Zoo in 2020. Jens Kalaene / DPA via Getty Images file The number of sun bears shrank by over 30% in the past 30 years, according to the World Wildlife Fund.

While in the upright position, the sun bear at the Tha Lat Open Zoo in Nakhon Si Thammarat, Thailand, appears to wave and nod at guests. By. David Chiu. David Chiu.

The Mesker Park Zoo has one sun bear, Fong, who is 28. In 2020, he celebrated his 25th birthday with treats like carrots and a “25” carved out of fruit, ...

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.