Is there a layer missing? The joke seems to revolve around a shadow which isn’t there
I don’t think so. The joke is that you’re supposed to put your arms up in the air to appear bigger when you run into bears, so bear-cop is suddenly intimidated when the perp does it.
That’s also what a lot of animals do in general. Including bears.

Honestly I can’t tell if these are real animals, furries or an AI image 🤔
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It’s AI, but red pandas absolutely do that.
Definitely not AI lol
Current gen image generators are still horrible at creating accurate fur and even more horrible at interactions between hair and a complicated medium such as snow. Considering the complete lack of recent progress in AI image generation it will probably not be possible to generate images like this for a long while.
tineye gives this article from 2016 as the oldest still active match https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3431573/Hands-Red-panda-appears-surrender-putting-paws-air-snowy-standoff-Canadian-zoo.html
Photographer Dominic Marcoux captured these stunning photographs at Granby Zoo in Granby, Quebec, Canada.
Thanks for correcting me. I was suspicious about it, so I consulted wasitai, and it returned it being ai generated.
Probably better to check tineye then sort by oldest than wasitai
Oh yeah. I didn’t even spot that the cop was a bear
Usually they’re pigs


