{"id":197909,"date":"2025-12-18T07:20:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-18T07:20:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/197909\/"},"modified":"2025-12-18T07:20:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-18T07:20:07","slug":"mother-polar-bear-seen-interacting-with-adopted-cub","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/197909\/","title":{"rendered":"Mother polar bear seen interacting with adopted cub"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">In a rarely documented case, a polar bear in northern Canada has adopted a cub that is not biologically her own. <\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">The mother bear was first observed this spring as she emerged from her maternity den with a single cub, which scientists tagged for study. When she was seen again, she was accompanied by two cubs. <\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">Scientists say it is unclear what happened to the adopted cub&#8217;s biological mother, but they are trying to identify her with genetic samples.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In a rarely documented case, a polar bear in northern Canada has adopted a cub that is not&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":197910,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[61,60,82,263],"class_list":{"0":"post-197909","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wildlife","8":"tag-ie","9":"tag-ireland","10":"tag-science","11":"tag-wildlife"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197909","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=197909"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197909\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/197910"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=197909"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=197909"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=197909"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}