Cover image via The Borneo Post SEEDSIn an incident happened at an oil palm plantation along the Bintangor-Sibu Road on Friday, 30 January, a group of Indonesian plantation workers in Sarawak mistreated and beat up a sick Malaysian sun bear that wandered into the plantation
According to the Borneo Post, it charged at the workers. One of them then hit it until it passed out. The absence of hair on its body made them think the sun bear was a "strange-looking animal."
The worker did not inform the authorities about the incident
Watch the poor bear after it was beaten up:
However, the Borneo Post later reported that the "strange-looking creature" was identified as a sun bear with skin disease. This was confirmed by the Sarawak Forestry Corporation (SFC) via SMS.
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Reacting on the incident, environmental group Naturetalksback condemned the plantation workers for mistreating the sick animal
The group's Facebook page [posted](https://www.facebook.com/Naturetalksback), "the so-called 'Malaysian Chupacabra' is a sun bear, that lost its fur either from disease or because it was abused/shaved."
Further adding that, "so many Malaysians are fawning over the 1600 paper mache panda bears, meanwhile a local endangered bear gets the living daylights beaten out of it, is filmed, and paraded on the interwebs as a "freak of nature" or a "monster"."
