Wild Polar Bear Appears to 'Adopt' a Lonely Cub in Rare Moment Captured by Canadian Researchers

While researching a group of wild polar bears near the Churchill area of Manitoba, Canada, scientists witnessed a mother polar bear seemingly "adopting" a cub that isn't biologically hers, according to the BBC.

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00:00In March when this female was coming out of the Danning area she had one cub and we examined them

00:17we took a bunch of measurements and then they walked back out onto the sea ice and went about

00:21living their lives but fast forward to September and we caught up with the same family group again

00:27in a similar area and this female had two cubs one of the cubs had tags in its ears that we had put

00:34in when we encountered them in the spring and then the second one didn't so we knew it was a

00:39a new cub and that it had been adopted by this female

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