KOTA KINABALU: After two years at the Bornean Sun Bear Conservation Centre (BSBCC) in Sandakan, Kukuton, a gentle and beloved sun bear, has died at age nine of cardiac failure.

Instead of delivering a continuous shock, electric fences send power through the wires in quick pulses. This gives a bear the chance to pull away, feeling only a brief, unpleasant jolt.

Two TikTok videos shot in California show a pair of black bear cubs struggling to follow their mother over what appears to be a backyard fence. The mama bear waits perched on the top of the fence ...

Why it's awesome: Sun bears often stand on their hind legs and can look so similar to humans they've been mistaken for people wearing costumes. Sun bears are the smallest bears in the world.

A bear rehabilitation program in Malaysian Borneo cares for 44 sun bears rescued from captivity and the pet trade and has been releasing bears back into the wild since 2015.

On July 19, 2025, in Colorado, USA, @hiracing shared a video of an unexpected encounter. In the video, the author is about to walk outside when they spot a bear strolling through the yard. The bear ...

A video of a Southeast Asian sun bear standing on hind legs at the Hangzhou Zoo swept through Chinese social media. This behavior is not unusual, experts say, and sun bears are known for their ...

Sun bear expert, Siew Te Wong, has captured rare footage of the world’s smallest bear making a nest high in the canopy. The nest-building of a sun bear is behaviour rarely seen, let alone filmed.

TikTok videos shot in Monrovia, California, shows a mother bear pulling two cubs over a fence using her mouth after they couldn’t climb it.