Tourists flock to Chinese zoo after human-like Malayan sun bear 'Angela' goes viral

A Malayan sun bear named Angela has become a top draw for Hangzhou Zoo in China's Zheijiang province. - PHOTO: SHAOXIA33139500/TWITTER

BEIJING (Reuters): Visitors are thronging a zoo in eastern China's Zhejiang province after a video of one of its bears went viral with some netizens suggesting she looked so human that she might be a staff member in a bear suit, local media reported on Tuesday.

Visitor numbers at Hangzhou Zoo have gone up by 30 per cent to around 20,000 a day since a video of the Malayan Sun bear, named Angela, became a trending topic on Chinese social media over the weekend, Zhejiang province-based Chao News reported.