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.

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.

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 ...

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