Bears are powerful, incredibly intelligent creatures. Studies on American black bears have even shown they can count.

Just the thought of keeping them captive for our entertainment is heartbreaking — but forcing one to wear a torture vest is beyond cruel.

Hell on earth
Bear Caesar spent the first part of her life in a kind of hell on earth. She lived on a farm in China that harvested ingredients for traditional Chinese medicine.

She was cruelly forced to supply the farm with bile from her gallbladder. Her captors drained her of the fluid 24 hours a day and bound her in a restrictive metal vest. She was confined to a small room where he could barely move.