{"id":28436,"date":"2025-05-23T20:39:04","date_gmt":"2025-05-23T20:39:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=28436"},"modified":"2025-05-23T21:24:06","modified_gmt":"2025-05-23T21:24:06","slug":"baby-bear-learns-how-to-be-wild-from-humans-in-fur","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=28436","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Baby Bear\u2019 Learns How to Be Wild From Humans in Fur"},"content":{"rendered":"

At a wildlife center in San Diego, caretakers of a black bear cub are using extraordinary measures to keep him from becoming reliant on humans, including donning masks and vintage fur coats.<\/p>\n

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The human caretakers of a black bear cub known as Baby Bear wear fur coats and camouflage masks to keep him from becoming too reliant on humans.<\/span>San Diego Humane Society<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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The lonely 2-month-old black bear cub who was weak, dehydrated and underweight when he arrived at a wildlife center in Southern California last month may have had bigger problems than to question why his new caretakers looked rather gaunt.<\/p>\n

Apparently, he has yet to discover that they aren\u2019t bears at all, but people donning pelts and furs to disguise their humanness.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s because the make-believe bears are staff members with the Ramona Wildlife Center at the San Diego Humane Society, which has been experimenting with the practice of dressing up to welcome bear cubs and other wildlife that has been abandoned or lost.<\/p>\n

The hope is that the cub will not form an attachment to humans, losing its instinctual behaviors and becoming reliant on people for food, the center said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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The ash-brown colored cub (the fur of American black bears comes in a wide array of colors<\/a>) is still learning how to be a bear.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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At a wildlife center in San Diego, caretakers of a black bear cub are using extraordinary measures to keep him from becoming reliant on humans, including donning masks and vintage fur coats.The human caretakers of a black bear cub known as Baby Bear wear fur coats and camouflage masks to keep him from becoming too reliant on humans.San Diego Humane SocietyThe lonely 2-month-old black bear cub who was weak, dehydrated and underweight when he arrived at a wildlife center in Southern California last month may have had bigger problems than to question why his new caretakers looked rather gaunt.Apparently, he has yet to discover that they aren\u2019t bears at all, but people donning pelts and furs to disguise their humanness.That\u2019s because the make-believe bears are staff members with the Ramona Wildlife Center at the San Diego Humane Society, which has been experimenting with the practice of dressing up to welcome bear cubs and other wildlife that has been abandoned or lost.The hope is that the cub will not form an attachment to humans, losing its instinctual behaviors and becoming reliant on people for food, the center said.The ash-brown colored cub (the fur of American black bears comes in a wide array of colors) is still learning how to be a bear.A bear cub, who came to be known as Baby Bear, arrived at a wildlife center in San Diego after it was found alone at a national park.San Diego Humane SocietyWe are having trouble retrieving the article content.Please enable JavaScript in your browser settings.Thank you for your patience while we verify access. If you are in Reader mode please exit and\u00a0log into\u00a0your Times account, or\u00a0subscribe\u00a0for all of The Times.Thank you for your patience while we verify access.Already a subscriber?\u00a0Log in.Want all of The Times?\u00a0Subscribe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":28438,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28436","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28436","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=28436"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28436\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28441,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28436\/revisions\/28441"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/28438"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28436"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28436"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28436"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}