In 2019, a live sun bear was discovered in an apartment in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. It came to authorities’ attention after neighbors heard it whimpering and holding its paws out of the window.

Footage from Thai Zoo Shows Sun Bears Standing Up Like Chinese Zoo Bears Accused of Being Human While in the upright position, the sun bear at the Tha Lat Open Zoo in Nakhon Si Thammarat, Thailand ...

Sun bears are the smallest bear species, measuring 4 to 5 feet long on their hind legs and weighing 60 to 150 pounds. This is only about half the size of an American black bear. Appearance: ...

A four-year-old Malayan sun bear named Angela in a Hangzhou zoo went viral on China's social media as a video showed the world's smallest bear standing upright and waving to tourists just like a ...

The world’s smallest bear is finally having its moment in the sun – thanks to a viral video that sparked a conspiracy theory on social media.

In 2019, a live sun bear was discovered in an apartment in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. It came to authorities’ attention after neighbors heard it whimpering and holding its paws out of the window.

The owner claimed to have mistaken the bear “for a dog” and was fined $6,000 by a court. Another woman was prosecuted for keeping a sun bear in her house in Singapore in 1993.

The world’s smallest bear is finally having its moment in the sun – thanks to a viral video that sparked a conspiracy theory on social media.