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

Workers wear bear costume to interact with an orphaned bear cub to keep it from becoming accustomed to humans.

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 ...

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 ...