BROXBOURNE, United Kingdom (KLTV) - Paradise Wildlife Park in the U.K. is sharing more fun facts about their new sun bears, after visitors recently marveled at their human-like tendency to stand on ...

The sun bear may stand just four feet tall, but this bear's amazing tongue shows, it is big in other areas. The odd-looking animal uses its impressive foot-long tongue to steal honey from beehives ...

This makes it the lengthiest tongue of any bear, and the species even holds the Guinness World Record for this feat. The gangling appendage comes in handy for pulling honey out of bee hives.

The species is also known as the ‘honey bear’ due to its love for honey - which it extracts by using its long tongue. Sun bears have extremely long claws, ...

What it eats: Ants, bees, beetles, honey, termites, fruit, plants, small mammals and birds. ... (30 centimeters) tongue to help them get their food — the longest tongue of any bear.

The sun bear’s tongue is between and 7.9 and 11.8 inches long, or 20–30 cm, zookeepers said. Credit: Paradise Wildlife Park / AMAZING ANIMALS+ /TMX ...