LATEST / Here is the open letter of the flamingos of Zvërnec

 Kliko këtu për të tjera
Voxpress:

Unusual case that has surprised scientists in Canada, polar bear adopts abandoned cub (VIDEO)

2025-12-17 18:14:22Lifestyle SHKRUAR NGA REDAKSIA VOX
Polar bear adopts abandoned cub

Researchers in northern Canada have recorded an unusual event this fall: a mother polar bear has adopted a cub that was not her biological one.

The incident was observed near the town of Churchill in Manitoba, during the annual migration of polar bears. As the BBC writes, scientists noticed that the five-year-old bear, which in the spring had only one cub, in the fall appeared with two, one that was marked for study and the other without a mark.

“It’s unusual,” Alyssa McCall, a scientist at Polar Bears International, said in a video. “We don’t know why it happens… but we do know it doesn’t happen very often.”

This is only the 13th documented adoption in nearly five decades of studies of 4,600 polar bears in the region. Scientists do not yet know what happened to the new cub's biological mother, but are investigating through genetic analysis.

Unusual case that has surprised scientists in Canada, polar bear adopts

Experts say this action increases the cubs' chances of survival, which in the wild have only a 50% chance of reaching adulthood.

“Bears need all the help they can get these days because of climate change,” said Evan Richardson, polar bear scientist at Environment and Climate Change Canada. “If females have the opportunity to take another cub and raise it successfully, that’s a good thing for the bears in Churchill.”

The family is expected to head to the sea ice, where the pups will learn from their mother how to hunt seals and survive on their own.

“It's just nice to know that bears take care of each other,” Richardson added.

 


Në përputhje me standarded JTI

Video

SHIKO KANALIN NE YOUTUBE
×