This is a funny scene that happened in Jinan, Shandong Province, in the video, a small black bear, dressed in robes, walking upright, this style is very similar to its old ancestor - the black bear essence that stole robes to open the Buddhist clothing meeting in the Journey to the West.
Netizen comments: It is simply "red robe plus body, seal broken, blood vein awakening". Speaking of the bear walking upright, there is also a tragic history that bears do not know.
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After watching a lot of fun, you may also have a question: Isn't a bear a walking animal on all fours? Why is it that this little bear in the video is walking so slippery with his feet on the ground? Pay attention to @ engineer Tianzhang, I will nag with everyone, this use of two feet to walk the skill, how is the bear refined?
The little bear in the video, it looks like an Asian black bear, the body length of the Asian black bear is generally about 1.5 meters, the weight is about 150 kg, look at the data is even shorter than a normal adult male, but the bear's limbs are characterized by long hind legs and short front legs, so when walking, in order to share their own weight reasonably, most of the time they use the "inner eight" form of limbs to land, this way of walking can make the body center of gravity move forward, a good share of weight, It does not put too much pressure on the longer hind legs, so usually the bear will not stand upright and walk on both feet.
But everything must be special, when the bear is frightened or encounters an opponent, it will stand up and use the method of increasing its height advantage to intimidate the opponent, but the time to stand upright on both feet is not too long, because the bear's weight load is still too heavy for their hind leg structure.
The behavior of the bear running in a robe in the video, from the perspective of a person, is a very funny behavior, but for the bear concerned, either its own weight is not large, and it is usually used to the behavior of walking upright on both hind legs, or it is simply a frightened behavior, but I speculate that the video was filmed in a pet park, there should be no lack of food, so this bear should be suddenly frightened by the staff's behavior of wearing a robe, so there is a funny scene of running upright with both feet.
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Speaking of the bear walking upright, there is also a tragic history behind the bears that are not known, that is, live bear bile, as we all know, bear bile as a traditional rare animal Chinese herbal medicine, as early as 3,000 years ago has been recognized by people, and in the era of not yet finding a suitable substitute, in order to obtain a large number of DEOXY URSOLIC ACID, can only be obtained by taking bear bile alive, therefore, for a period of time, Asian bears, in addition to the national treasure giant panda, have been hunted or imprisoned in large quantities , just to get a high-quality bear bile.
If you have ever been to the China Black Bear Rescue Center headquartered in Chengdu, Sichuan Province, then you will know a true story: once Ms. Sherobenchen rescued 219 black bears from an illegal black bear breeding farm, most of these black bears have left the sequelae of their painful experiences, and after the rescue of the doctors of the black bear rescue center, 47 bears still died of infections caused by bile extraction, and more than 20% of the 172 bears who survived were mutilated. However, compared with physical injuries, the mental and spiritual damage suffered by these black bears is more terrifying and painful.
In my opinion, compared with the bears who have been imprisoned for a long time and take bile from the living, those bears who are killed on the spot are lucky, at least they do not have to suffer long-term torture, and the torture of those living bears is really unimaginable! In order to facilitate the extraction of bear bile, people often imprison tall bears in a small iron cage, and then insert a catheter directly into the bear's body, directly into the bile ducts in the bear's abdomen, extracted twice a day, and more frighteningly, in order to limit the activity of bears, people will also lock their bodies firmly with customized heavy iron vests, so that they can maintain a posture for a long time, unable to move at all, this pain is self-evident for any animal with developed senses. Extremely painful bears, often desperately hit the iron cage with their heads in order to end their lives as soon as possible, the kind of shock, indescribable.
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In fact, bears are animals, very emotionally rich, compared with humans, their psychological ability is only a difference in degree and no difference in nature, for example, those who are treated by black bears, in the face of the kindness of the rescuers, they show a completely different state from usual, they no longer hit their heads against the cage, even their eyes look at humans from despair to expectation, most bears can live normally in the living area of the treatment center after a period of treatment and physical and mental recuperation. It is worth mentioning that when those tortured bears in the early stage of treatment, due to long-term malnutrition caused by thin body, so that they can get used to walking upright with their hind legs, their behavior is also watched by many ignorant melon eaters, thinking that black bears have "become sperm" and can learn the way humans walk, and they do not know how great pain is carried behind their "funny" behavior.
Writing so much, @Engineer Tianzhang just wants to appeal to everyone that the global village is not only exclusive to us humans, we should learn to coexist in harmony with any other species, and sincerely hope that those cruel animal cruelties will not appear from now on.