{"id":191477,"date":"2025-09-30T04:30:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-30T04:30:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/191477\/"},"modified":"2025-09-30T04:30:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-30T04:30:07","slug":"orphaned-bear-cubs-arrive-at-new-home-at-cincinnati-zoo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/191477\/","title":{"rendered":"Orphaned bear cubs arrive at new home at Cincinnati Zoo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CINCINNATI (WKRC) &#8211; Two orphaned black bear cubs are now living at the newly-completed Bear Ridge.<\/p>\n<p>The seven-month-old female cubs were orphaned in Montana. Cincinnati Zoo keepers went to Montana and brought the cubs back with help from DHL.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Two orphaned black bear cubs are now living at the newly-completed Bear Ridge. (Cincinnati Zoo){ }\" class=\"ImageEmbed_image__qZBo_\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/a7617703-33e3-40f1-8f3b-64436105ff04-IMG_3049.jpeg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Two orphaned black bear cubs are now living at the newly-completed Bear Ridge. (Cincinnati Zoo){ }<\/p>\n<p>They arrived in Bear Ridge early in the morning on September 17 and have been getting acclimated to the indoor habitat and getting to know their new caregivers.  They are also receiving full health checks and from the Zoo\u2019s vet staff.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Two orphaned black bear cubs are now living at the newly-completed Bear Ridge. (Cincinnati Zoo){ }\" class=\"ImageEmbed_image__qZBo_\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/7702eb8a-a566-4049-928c-befdba5ecaad-blackbearfemale.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Two orphaned black bear cubs are now living at the newly-completed Bear Ridge. (Cincinnati Zoo){ }<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe team is already crazy about these bears,\u201d said Cincinnati Zoo curator of mammals Kim Scott. \u201cWe\u2019re going to provide a great home for them and also hope to inspire guests with the uniqueness of a species that can be found right here in North America.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Zoo says the bears are not &#8220;releasable&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Comment with Bubbles<\/p>\n<p>BE THE FIRST TO COMMENT<\/p>\n<p>The cubs will be introduced to the outdoor spaces in Bear Ridge in the next few weeks. They have yet to be named.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CINCINNATI (WKRC) &#8211; Two orphaned black bear cubs are now living at the newly-completed Bear Ridge. The seven-month-old&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":191478,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51],"tags":[79,201],"class_list":{"0":"post-191477","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wildlife","8":"tag-science","9":"tag-wildlife"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191477","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=191477"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191477\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/191478"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=191477"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=191477"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=191477"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}