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An orphaned polar bear cub from the Churchill, Man., area has arrived in Winnipeg, the Assiniboine Park Zoo says.<\/p>\n
Conservation officers identified the northern Manitoba cub as a candidate for transfer to the zoo’s Leatherdale International Polar Bear Conservation Centre under the Polar Bear Protection Act after its mother was found dead, the zoo said in a Friday news release.<\/p>\n
Research has shown polar bear cubs orphaned in their first year of life can’t survive in the wild, the release said.<\/p>\n
The conservation centre facility was established with provincial support to provide refuge to select polar bears.<\/p>\n
In consultation with the province, members of the Assiniboine Park Conservancy’s polar bear rescue and care team sent equipment and resources to support the cub’s initial care needs in Churchill.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Veterinary staff then went north to assess the cub and oversee its transfer to Winnipeg. It arrived safely late Thursday evening, the news release said.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The bear will now get specialized care from veterinary professionals, animal care experts and conservation scientists.<\/p>\n
It will undergo a quarantine period and stay behind the scenes, while veterinary and animal care teams assess its health and care needs.<\/p>\n
In the meantime, the cub won’t be visible to zoo visitors.<\/p>\n
The zoo is home to six other rescued polar bears: Storm, Nanuq, York, Kaska, Willow and Star.<\/p>\n
Every rescued cub adapts to a zoo environment at its own pace, and the transition process is carefully managed to support animal comfort and welfare, the release said.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The last polar bear cubs transferred to the zoo arrived in 2017. The zoo said it will continue to share updates as the latest cub transitions to its new home.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Listen to this article Estimated 2 minutes The audio version of this article is generated by AI-based technology.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":866654,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194296],"tags":[49,48,22073],"class_list":["post-866653","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-winnipeg","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-winnipeg"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/866653","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=866653"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/866653\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/866654"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=866653"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=866653"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=866653"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}