Gene Simmons: Bear Extraordinaire (Sun Bear)

At the zoo, I was particularly taken by the Malaysian Sun Bear. He was tucked away in a hollow log, quite daintily (or with great deliberation) pulling apart a chunk of meat with its hooked claws, using them to grip and pull apart tendons and stringy flesh. Later visits showed it digging in the dirt with those same sickle-like claws.
Upon researching sun bears I found out some interesting facts. They are the smallest of the bear family and are illusive. Irony that a bear so invisible in the wild should be on display in the zoo. They are made for swelteringly hot tropical climates, thus their fur is shorter. With their claws they are expert climbers, though there is not much to climb for containment reasons. They are supposed to be mainly nocturnal, so it was quite out of the ordinary to see it in the day, if to see it at all. heir diet consists of berries, fruit, roots, insects and other small game. I'm pretty sure the chunk of meat it was eating was part of a cow, and it was almost half the size of the bear. I believe it's safe to assume that game that large are outside its hunting forte. The tongue is used for impressing women at rock concerts. That's a joke. It uses it to gather honey from inside bees nests. The digging that I observed seemed to be a method of foraging for food. As for its location in the log, it offered the most seclusion from the prying eye, though not really. Though they are not often seen and thus indeterminably (endangered?), they still face poachers, deforestation, and extermination by farmers.
All in all, sun bears are pretty interesting creatures with swanky colored patches on their chests and very impressive tongue talents. I really hope they are around for generations to come.