Polar Bear Orphan

Wednesday, 20 March 2013 | by Pat's Picks

The Anchorage Daily News says this little guy is now an orphan after an Alaska man accidentally shot his mother while hunting. Polar bears are generally protected under federal law, but the man is a Inupiaq subsistence hunter, which allows him to take polar bears. Either way, it was a mistake. When the man realized he’d killed a mother, he tracked down the bear’s den and found this 18-pound cub inside. He strapped the bear to the back of his snowmobile and whisked him off to a zoo in Anchorage, where workers are trying to find him a home.

SOURCE: Anchorage Daily News