Sunday, November 11, 2012

A very sad--what I think is a--sun  bear in this miserable cage in a tourist area. Funny thing was it wasn't even somewhere where people would see it. It was kind of in behind the craft market all by itself. I had to wander off on my own to find it. So why was it there? I understand--from the internet--that there's a practice of collecting bile from bears in Asia for some kind of medicine, but generally the bile bears are kept in much smaller cages. So I'm not sure what's going on here. All I know is that this bear seemed very much out of sorts. At one point as I was rudely snapping these shots, he lunged at the side of the cage.

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