Finding a human orphaned baby and adoptive parent is relatively straightforward thanks to adoption agencies, but finding a mom to adopt an orphaned bear cub is a bit trickier, and involves a little more manual labor.
Wild animals like bear cubs deserve to grow up in the wild rather than spend the rest of their lives in captivity, which is why these biologists from the Michigan Department of Natural Resources (DNR) were determined to find orphaned bear cubs a mother who could raise them as her own in the wild the past winter.
In order to find a new mom, the biologists find female bears who already have young cubs, and lay the orphaned cub beside her own cubs inside their den while they are hibernating.
Once the biologists are able to track down the den of a mother bear, the team digs their way in where she will be sedated, collared, and finally given a health exam. Finally, the orphaned cub is placed with the other babies to hibernate until spring.
“You can trick females into taking additional cubs if it’s done right,” Boersen said. “It at least gives them a chance they wouldn’t have and it works nearly 100 percent of the time if you can place the cub with a denned [female bear].”
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[Featured image credit: Facebook/Michigan Department of Natural Resources]
Heroes Find A New Mom For These Orphaned Baby Bear Cubs is an article from: LifeDaily