A bile bear kept in captivity so that her bile can be extracted. The image was taken by the Asian Animal Protection Network in Huizhou Farm, Vietnam. The bear has since been removed from there and is living in China.

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Topics:
   + Animal abuse
   + Animal cages
   + Animal products in Chinese medicine
   + Bear bile
   + History of medicine
   + Ursidae in captivity
   + Ursus thibetanus in zoos

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• Artist: Asian Animal Protection Network
• License: CC BY 3.0, Creative Commons Attribution 3.0
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• Original datetime: 2009-06-23
• Upload datetime: 2012-04-22T08:51:15Z
• Uploader: User:Pilettes
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