ANCHORAGE, Alaska — A brown bear cub found last month near a dead sow in Nome has been taken to Anchorage as biologists work to nurse the malnourished animal back to health. Alaska Wildlife Troopers were notified April 29 about the dead female bear, which reportedly had been killed the previous day in Venetia Creek, KTVA-TV reported Wednesday. The cub is now recuperating at the Alaska Zoo in Anchorage. Fish and Game spokesman Ken Marsh said the cub will be sent later this summer to Northwest Trek Wildlife Park, a facility near Tacoma, Washington, which has been on the department’s placement list for a brown bear cub. If a placement slot isn’t available, Fish and Game policy calls for cubs discovered in incidents like the one near Nome to be euthanized.

Source: National Post May 10, 2018 14:03 UTC