{"id":303146,"date":"2025-12-17T18:00:46","date_gmt":"2025-12-17T18:00:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsisc.com\/videos\/scientists-confirm-rare-instance-of-polar-bear-mother-adopting-a-cub\/"},"modified":"2025-12-17T18:00:46","modified_gmt":"2025-12-17T18:00:46","slug":"scientists-confirm-rare-instance-of-polar-bear-mother-adopting-a-cub","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsisc.com\/videos\/scientists-confirm-rare-instance-of-polar-bear-mother-adopting-a-cub\/","title":{"rendered":"Scientists confirm rare instance of polar bear mother adopting a cub"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i2.ytimg.com\/vi\/1NEdHh0Q578\/hqdefault.jpg\" alt=\"Scientists confirm rare instance of polar bear mother adopting a cub\"><br \/> <iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/1NEdHh0Q578\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p>Only 13 examples of polar bear adoptions have been recorded among the western Hudson Bay population since studies began more than 45 years ago.<br \/>\nSubscribe to Guardian News on YouTube \u25ba https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/guardianwires?sub_confirmation=1<\/p>\n<p>The mother, known as bear X33991, was spotted with two cubs in November near Bird Cove in the Churchill wildlife management area when she had only one in the spring. Alysa McCall, the director of conservation outreach and staff scientist at Polar Bears International, explains how the adoption gives the second cub a new lease on life <\/p>\n<p>The Guardian publishes independent journalism, made possible by supporters. 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Subscribe to Guardian News on YouTube \u25ba https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/guardianwires?sub_confirmation=1 The mother, known as bear X33991, was spotted with two cubs in November near Bird Cove in the Churchill wildlife management area when [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":303147,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[128995],"tags":[148592,130808,130569],"actors":[],"class_list":["post-303146","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-guardian-news","tag-examples","tag-only","tag-polar"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Scientists confirm rare instance of polar bear mother adopting a cub | News ISC Videos<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Watch Scientists confirm rare instance of polar bear mother adopting a cub for free, here on News ISC. 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