The outfit sounds like avant-garde fashion, but it’s actually the uniform of caretakers at the San Diego Humane Society, who are raising an orphaned black bear cub. CNN values your feedback 1.

Workers at a US-based animal shelter dress up in bear outfit to care for orphan cub. Workers at a US-based animal shelter dress up in bear outfit to care for orphan cub. Read Today's Paper Tributes.

Autumn Welch dons a fur coat, leather gloves and a bear mask for work these days, then enters an enclosure to feed and fawn over a 12-pound (5.4 kg) black bear cub who she hopes will consider her ...

The bear costume is meant to stop the rescued cub from bonding with humans. ... The costumed-care technique is relatively new, Welch said, so there's no conclusive research on its effectiveness.

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