A Malaysian singer was arrested for “rescuing” a sun bear cub. The singer, Zarith Sofia Yasin, claims she saw the bear on the side of the road in the dark and mistook it for a dog.
“It was night time when I found the bear cub in a weakened state by the side of the road – and I thought it was dog!” she told Kosmo!
She believed the “dog” to be in distress so she took it home to care for. However, once she realized he was in-fact a sun bear, she decided to nurse him back to health. She believed that she could better help the bear – who she named Bruno – than the zoo.
“I was worried about sending Bruno to the zoo because the animals there look skinny,” Yasin said.
Her “care” for the bear included leaving it uncaged in her apartment and feeding it “good” food. “If Bruno could talk, it would surely say the food I gave him was delicious – it ate chocolates!”
She went on to say that she planned to turn the bear over to the zoo once it was healthy. “I know the bear cannot be reared, it can’t be kept as a pet. I only wanted to save the bear, I had no intention of exploiting it.”
Yasin was arrested by the Wildlife and National Parks Department.
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