Newborn Polar Bear at Toronto Zoo!

[Catherine]

The Toronto Zoo has a newborn Polar Bear. The staff are raising him the way they raised his big brother Hudson.http://globalnews.ca/news/1025941/toront...om-mother/

He has grown so much. Look at him now.
http://www.torontolife.com/informer/rand...olar-bear/

He is doing very well and I can't wait to see him when he goes on display in the little bear nursery area.

[Knight of Albion]

So sweet ...

Sad that he faces life in a zoo though....

Mind you, the way things are going with loss of ice/global warming, unless the species degenerates into dustbin scavengers, zoos might be the only place to find polar bears in future...

[Cibach]

He's just toooooo cute.
You may very well be right, Dear Knight. A thought that gives one pause.

[Catherine]

Both the little bear's parents were orphaned very young and would be dead if the zoo had not raised them. So in reality he would not even have been born.
When I hear about a bear swimming 9 days before finding ice(her cub did not make it) or worse drowning because of not finding ice, I know that we are now in an emergency situation. Zoos provide them with sanctuary and life. They also educate people about the bears and the whole conservation issue. Informed people might make good animal friendly choices.
Some species of animals only exist because they were in zoos. All the wild ones were killed. The wonderful news is that the zoos are returning animals to the wild.
The grandson of DinDin our dear departed senior Orangutan now lives free in a wild sanctuary. He was born in a zoo that returns Orangutans to the wild. It took years to prepare him, but his grandpa came from the wild and his grandson returned to it. DinDin would be proud.