Goodbyes can be tough, and this one is no exception. The Detroit Zoo is saying goodbye to the precious polar bear cubs Astra and Laerke, and it won't be easy.
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Human mother goes to water to encourage adoptive polar bear cubs to swim
17 April 2021
New major stage for the cubs born in captivity to a mother who refused to feed and raise them.
The cubs had a nice first swim, even though they were mostly keen to reach their human mother and climb into her arms. Picture:
Yelena Milovidova/Gelendzhik Safari Park
Two polar bear cubs - a male and a female - were born at the beginning of December to a seven-year-old mother bear Seryozhka from Novaya Zemlya, and an 18-year-old male bear Sedov from Krasnoyarsk.
Both bears currently live in Gelendzhik safari park in the south of Russia.