It’s No Lie That Lil Lailani Is the Cutest Sun Bear!

Category: captivity
Date: December 28th 2008
By: siew-te-wong

As I was doing a random search of “sun bear” on the internet, the photos of Lailani, a sun bear cub born on Feb 25, 2008 at Friederichsfelde Zoo, Berlin, Germany, popped out from my computer screen. No double that out of eight species of bears, giant pandas are recognized as the cutest bears. However, if you have seen a sun bear cub, the smallest of all bears, I am sure you will agree with me that they are so cute and deserve our love and help to help them from all kind of threats, like the one in my post earlier- being killed brutally for food and aphrodisiac.

One big problem for sun bear conservation is that sun bear are not well known like other charismatic animals. Many people never heard about sun bear or seen a photo of a sun bear. I hope BSBCC and this website can show the readers and the world the most wonderful images and photos of sun bears, although sometime I have to post graphic images of this poor animal being cut into pieces by our own kind. We need to help them. Please help them..

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 It’s No Lie That Lil Lailani Is the Cutest Sun Bear!Fri, 08/22/2008 – 9:50am by PetSugar  

“Please, I said no close-ups right now!” But, you can’t blame the photographers, lil bear because you are absolutely adoro! This six-month-old cub just had her press debut today in Berlin (once again, Germany must be land of baby animals!).

Meet Lailani, a Sun Bear, born Feb. 25 to proud bear’rents (ha!), Tina and Johannes. While the species can be found in the tropical forests of Southeast Asia in the wild, this gal’s at the Friederichsfelde Zoo . . . so we can check out tons of super-cute photos!sunbear.jpg82512306_10_preview.jpg82511501_10_preview.jpg82511476_10_preview.jpg82511468_10_preview.jpg82511448_10_preview.jpg82511417_10_preview.jpg82511385_10_preview.jpg82511369_10_preview.jpg82511360_10_preview.jpg

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11 Comments

  1. sheryl bottner
    Posted December 29, 2008 at 5:09 am | Permalink

    Bears are adorable – period. Sure, giant pandas have those black eye patches that make them look cute, but moon bears and sun bears and sloth bears and black bears and grizzly bears and Andean bears and polar bears are all cute. I love bears. I’d love to see a sun bear and a moon bear some day.

    s.

  2. Siew Te Wong
    Posted December 29, 2008 at 1:09 pm | Permalink

    Hope so Sheryl. You are most welcome to come to SE Asia to see the bears yourself if not at a zoo that has both sun bears or moon bears.

  3. paula
    Posted December 29, 2008 at 1:52 pm | Permalink

    Great post Wong, wonderful bear. I agree she is absolutely adorable. I want to hug a sun bear!

  4. brigitta, switzerland
    Posted December 29, 2008 at 4:33 pm | Permalink

    Dear Wong. She is really beauty, but you see I am just in love to Arkarna ;-) . Fortunately she is a girl!
    http://sunbears.pro-ject-pool.ch/

  5. JJ
    Posted December 29, 2008 at 11:37 pm | Permalink

    Hi Wong,

    I really envy your work and passion for animals, I hail from the same hometown as you, looking forward to working back in the forestry field, where I graduated from UMS, any openings?

    Have been years since I worked in other fields not related to forestry, but the dream of joining the forestry field is still there..

    Thanks..

  6. Siew Te Wong
    Posted December 30, 2008 at 2:05 am | Permalink

    Hi Joevin,
    I always would like to work with people with lots of passions and high interest. Although I cannot promise you anything, but please do send me your resume and tell me more about yourself, I will keep my eyes open and it here is a suitable position, I will definitely let you know.
    Thanks.

    Cheers,
    Wong

  7. Siew Te Wong
    Posted December 31, 2008 at 6:57 am | Permalink

    Hi Brigitta,
    Very interesting site but unfortunately I cannot understand what was written in German. Can you tell me more about this swebsite and Arkarna?
    ~Wong

  8. brigitta, switzerland
    Posted January 1, 2009 at 9:59 am | Permalink

    Dear Wong
    I just translated the main sites of my sunbear website (hope my english is understandable ;-)
    The translated sites have a german or englisch flag to click on it. The other sites I will translate as soon as possible. If you it is ok for you, I will translate the information you gave me in the last e-mail and show it on the page.
    Brigitta

  9. Siew Te Wong
    Posted January 1, 2009 at 1:38 pm | Permalink

    Thanks Brigitta, now I know what the website about from the translation you have there so far. You are doing a good thing on expose the plights of these cage bears. I would like to do a posting about it soon. Thank you so so much and wish you a happy new years and a new hope for the sun bear!

  10. brigitta, switzerland
    Posted January 2, 2009 at 8:44 am | Permalink

    Dear wong. I just got the message from a friend, that he invented a projekt for the sunbears at Samboja. A amimalkeeper from a zoo in holland and a member of the organisation “four paws”holland,
    http://www.vier-voeters.nl/website/output.php?id=1001&language=2
    are at Samboja to help the bears.
    Good news. I hope to get some photos from the new situation.
    Brigitta

  11. Siew Te Wong
    Posted January 3, 2009 at 1:41 am | Permalink

    Good new about your friend and his website and work to help wildlife. If he can help us to promote sun bear conservation works and fund raise, that would be really great. I think there is a need to have more Europeans involve in wildlife conservation in Southeast Asia. This is the time to help. Together we could make a different!
    Thanks again Brigitta!
    Happy New Year to all!
    ~Wong

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