Manicures, massages, warm milk and 24/7 care to raise polar bear cubs whose mother rejected them
19 January 2021
Four Russian women share unique experience of becoming mother bears in the first ever attempt to nurture zoo cubs.
The two cubs - still unnamed male and a female - were born to seven year old mother bear Seryozhka, from the Novaya Zemlya archipelago, and an 18-year-old father bear, Sedov. Picture: Yelena Milovidova/Gelendzhik Safari Park
A team of six people - four ‘foster mothers’ and two vets - has been working round the clock since the beginning of December when two polar bear cubs were born and rejected by their mother at a safari park in the south of Russia.