{"id":57158,"date":"2023-08-01T19:29:08","date_gmt":"2023-08-01T10:29:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/aug\/01\/human-costume-sun-bear-draws-crowds-chinese-zoo"},"modified":"2023-08-01T19:29:08","modified_gmt":"2023-08-01T10:29:08","slug":"human-in-a-costume-sun-bear-draws-crowds-to-chinese-zoo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=57158","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Human in a costume\u2019 sun bear draws crowds to Chinese zoo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Visitor numbers rise by 30% as footage sparks claims animal could be a staff member in a bear suit<\/p>\n<p>Visitors have flocked to a zoo in eastern China\u2019s Zhejiang province after a video of one of its bears went viral with some suggesting she looked so human she could be a staff member in a bear suit.<\/p>\n<p>Attendance numbers at Hangzhou zoo have risen by 30% to about 20,000 a day, with some people travelling overnight, since a video of the Malayan sun bear, named Angela, became a trending topic on Chinese social media <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/jul\/31\/chinese-zoo-denies-sun-bears-humans-costumes\">over the weekend<\/a>, Zhejiang-based Chao News reported.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/aug\/01\/human-costume-sun-bear-draws-crowds-chinese-zoo\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Visitor numbers rise by 30% as footage sparks claims animal could be a staff member in a bear suitVisitors have flocked to a zoo in eastern China\u2019s Zhejiang province after a video of one of its bears went viral with some suggesting she looked so human &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":244,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[265,41,50,42,683],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-57158","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-animals","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-world-news","category-zoos"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57158","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/244"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=57158"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57158\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57159,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57158\/revisions\/57159"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=57158"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=57158"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=57158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}