{"id":61586,"date":"2025-12-17T12:41:43","date_gmt":"2025-12-17T12:41:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/researchers-witness-rare-polar-bear-adoption-capturing-video-of-female-caring-for-cub-that-was-not-her-own\/"},"modified":"2025-12-17T12:41:43","modified_gmt":"2025-12-17T12:41:43","slug":"researchers-witness-rare-polar-bear-adoption-capturing-video-of-female-caring-for-cub-that-was-not-her-own","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/researchers-witness-rare-polar-bear-adoption-capturing-video-of-female-caring-for-cub-that-was-not-her-own\/","title":{"rendered":"Researchers witness rare polar bear adoption, capturing video of female caring for cub that was not her own"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- ItShrt World News -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"1882483372\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<p>Researchers in northern Canada have observed a rare case of polar bear adoption, capturing video footage of a wild female bear caring for a cub that was not her own.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Cub adoption is relatively rare in polar bears. We&#8217;ve documented 13 cases in our study population over the last 45 years,&#8221; said Evan Richardson, a scientist with Canada&#8217;s ministry for environment and climate change.<\/p>\n<p>The footage of a bear caring for an adopted cub was captured during the annual polar bear migration along the <span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/why-ice-loss-in-the-arctic-is-threatening-polar-bear-populations\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">Western Hudson Bay<\/a><\/span> in Churchill, Manitoba, widely known as the polar capital of the world.<\/p>\n<p>Canadian researchers encountered the mother in the spring as she left her maternity den. She had only one cub, which was tagged \u2014 a common practice to aid study of the population.<\/p>\n<p>They encountered the same mother again weeks ago but saw a second cub with no ear tag, Richardson told AFP.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;When we went back and looked at the data, we realized that she had adopted a second cub,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>Video footage collected by the researchers shows the cubs surveying a snow-covered landscape, with the mother pacing behind, and one sequence where one cub hurries to join the others.<\/p>\n<p>Both cubs are 10 to 11 months old, and will likely stay with their mother until about 2.5 years of age.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;When we got confirmation that this was an adoption, I had a lot of mixed feelings, but mostly good,&#8221; Alysa McCall, a staff scientist with Polar Bears International, said in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/canada\/manitoba\/polar-bear-cub-adopted-churchill-9.7019054\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">video provided to the CBC<\/a>. &#8220;It&#8217;s just another reason why this species is so incredible, why they&#8217;re so fascinating and interesting, and it gives you a lot of hope when you realize that polar bears may be looking out for each other out there.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Researchers currently have no information as to what happened to the adopted cub&#8217;s biological mother.<\/p>\n<p>But having a maternal figure increases the chances of the cub&#8217;s survival into adulthood, Richardson said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s really a feel-good story to know that this female bear is looking after this cub and that it has a chance at survival,&#8221; Richardson said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;These female polar bears are such good moms, they&#8217;re maternally primed to take care of offspring, and when there&#8217;s a lone cub out on the tundra, bawling and crying, they just take them under their wing,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n<p>There are currently about 26,000 polar bears worldwide, according to the nonprofit <a href=\"https:\/\/polarbearsinternational.org\/polar-bears-changing-arctic\/polar-bear-facts\/status\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Polar Bears International<\/a>. The International Union for Conservation of Nature lists polar bears as a vulnerable species, saying <span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/why-ice-loss-in-the-arctic-is-threatening-polar-bear-populations\/\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">sea ice loss<\/a><\/span> from climate change is the biggest threat to their survival.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>This isn&#8217;t the first time wild animals have been observed with babies that aren&#8217;t their own. Earlier this year, scientists said <span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/monkeys-kidnap-babies-different-species-caught-on-camera-scientists\/\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">video showed capuchin monkeys<\/a><\/span> carrying at least 11 howler babies in Panama.<\/p>\n<p>At first, the researchers thought it was a &#8220;heartwarming story of a weird capuchin adopting these infants,&#8221; said Zo\u00eb Goldsborough, a behavioral ecologist at the Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior in Germany.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>But Goldsborough said they eventually realized the abductions were a social tradition or &#8220;fad&#8221; among the island&#8217;s young male capuchins, and in most or all cases, the baby howlers died.\u00a0<\/p>\n<section class=\"content__body--footer\">\n<\/section>\n<p>  <!-- data-recirc-source=\"queryly\" --><\/p>\n<aside class=\"component list recirculation component--type-recirculation \">\n<p><h3 class=\"component__title\">More from CBS 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