Gloves, a fur coat and a bear mask. 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.

The orphaned cub was about two months old when he was found April 12 in Southern California's Los Padres National Forest — ...

At a wildlife center in San Diego, caretakers of a black bear cub are using extraordinary measures to keep him from becoming reliant on humans, including donning masks and vintage fur coats.

They all have stocky, fur-covered bodies ... sloth bears and spectacled bears live in environments where food is plentiful year-round, so there's no need for them to save energy in the winter.