Gloves, a fur coat and a bear mask. The outfit sounds like avant-garde fashion, but it’s actually the uniform of caretakers ...

Think again. Employees at the San Diego Humane Society are wearing bear costumes to tend to a cub that came into the organization's care last month. The reason they're dressing the part?

Employees at the San Diego Humane Society dressed up in bear costumes to care for a two-month-old black bear cub. The goal is to eventually return the cub to the wild so his caregivers dress in ...

To keep the cub from forming bonds with people that could jeopardize his return to the wild, staff members charged with his care are dressing up in bear costumes, including a mask, fur coat and ...

May 19 (UPI) --Workers at a California wildlife center donned bear costumes to feed and care for a 2-month-old black bear cub. The San Diego Humane Society said the cub, the youngest bear to ever ...

When staff interact with the cub, they are usually garbed head-to-toe in a bear costume. They wear a bear mask and an oversize fur coat, as well as leather gloves. They also rub black-bear-scented ...

But do the costumes actually convince the cub he’s being taken care of by other bears? According to Welch, they do. She said that caregivers recently performed a test by entering his enclosure ...