They couldn’t bear to let this happen again.

Months after speculation that bears in a Chinese zoo were actually people in costumes, footage of pandas sitting and eating like humans in the nation’s Chongqing Zoo has viewers suspicious once more.

The mainland China animal sanctuary showed off four of its beloved black and white bears walking over to a table and sitting in chairs before adorably eating a meal in a people-like manner within their enclosure.

Suspicions of bamboozlement arose quickly on social media platforms including X.

“Sure it isn’t someone in panda suits?” one user commented, according to the Daily Mail.

“This video just reinforces my theory that pandas are actually humans in panda suits. That’s not a real animal,” added another.

“I wouldn’t even be mad if it was someone in a suit. At least that’s another bear free,” a third chimed in.

However, others took the pandas at face value.

“That’s pretty damn good sitting at the end of the clip, [it] does it exactly how bears do. It would be hard for a man to sit back like that,” wrote one.

The dinner for four harkens back to last summer’s incident at the Hangzhou Zoo involving a suspiciously human-like Malaysian sun bear named Angela — who was seen standing perfectly on her hind legs.

     Experts, along with the zoo itself, have since said that Angela is not an imposter.

Since that earlier incident, the zoo has enjoyed a 30% boost in visitors and is reportedly seeing 20,000 people per day.

However, the concept of phony zoo animals — there have been similar accusations of dogs being painted to look like wolves and donkeys like zebras in China — is not something taken lightly.

In 2009, the Taipei Times in Taiwan published a satirical April Fool’s Day article joking that two pandas gifted from the Chinese government to the Taipei Zoo were actually painted brown forest bears.