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Four human foster mothers are sharing the task of raising a pair of abandoned polar bear cubs born in captivity.
Heartening video and pictures show how the babies have taken to their new mums who care for them 24/7 at a safari park in Russia.
The spurned cubs receive manicures and massages as well as warm milk, and now at seven weeks old are growing rapidly.
Human foster mums raise from birth a pair of abandoned polar bear cubs, with milk, massage, and manicure
Successfully breeding polar bears in captivity is exceptionally rare and has never happened previously in Russia
Heartening video and pictures show how the babies have taken to their new mums who care for them 24/7 at a safari park in Russia
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.