<body><div><img src="https://img.particlenews.com/image.php?type=thumbnail_580x000&amp;url=0Mhbji_1FU68Zxg00" alt="https://img.particlenews.com/image.php?url=0Mhbji_1FU68Zxg00" width="1200" height="600" >ANCHORAGE, Alaska (KTUU) - At the Alaska Zoo, three young brown bear cubs wrestle and play in an enclosure. Curator Sam Lavin explains that orphaned animals this year have been given food names, hence — Hashbrown, Tater tot and French-fry who are siblings. Chocolate Pop-Tart, a black bear cub, is in a neighboring enclosure. Pancake, another brown bear cub, isn’t far away.Lavin says the zoo is currently caring for five orphaned bear cubs and, in a season where bear activity in Anchorage has been called “high.”More orphans could be coming soon.Pancake, the newest arrival, is a cub whose mother and sibling were shot by Fish and Game for getting into trash in an Anchorage neighborhood. A third cub is still on the loose.“Sometimes we don’t know what happened to mom, sometimes mom was hit by a car, sometimes mom was shot in defense of life and property, sometimes mom has been habituated to people,” Lavin said, describing circumstances that might bring cubs to the zoo.Fish and Game is responsible for bringing cubs to the zoo and coordinating with other facilities that have requested them.“Right now, other zoos will put in with Fish and Game for placement,” Lavin said. “So, if they have space open up, they’ll put in an application with Fish and Game. Fish and Game will vet them, make sure they are a legitimate zoo, that they’re a good place, and decide who gets what cubs.”Lavin said the duration a cub stays at the Alaska Zoo depends on its health when it arrives, but usually it’s a few months.“We do a full adoption treatment on them. They get neutered or spayed, they get vaccinated, they get blood drawn, they get a microchip. And then when they are healthy enough and the vet says it’s okay, then we ship them out.”Lavin said it can be hard to say goodbye to cubs that keepers and the public have gotten attached to, but the zoo doesn’t have the space to keep them. ”I would love to,” she said. “That would be great to keep Alaska’s wildlife here, but we can’t, so we have to share Alaska’s wildlife. Hopefully it brings interest to Alaska’s bears and Alaska’s habitat.” Lavin said the five cubs at the Alaska Zoo all have placements waiting for them and will probably ship out within the next three weeks.See a spelling or grammar error? Report it to web@ktuu.com</div></body>

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ANCHORAGE, Alaska (KTUU) - At the Alaska Zoo, three young brown bear cubs wrestle and play in an enclosure. Curator Sam Lavin explains that orphaned animals this year have been given food names, hence — Hashbrown, Tater tot and French-fry who are siblings. Chocolate Pop-Tart, a black bear cub,...

Alaska Zoo caring for five orphaned bear cubs

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ANCHORAGE, Alaska (KTUU) - At the Alaska Zoo, three young brown bear cubs wrestle and play in an enclosure. Curator Sam Lavin explains that orphaned animal

Alaska Zoo caring for five orphaned bear cubs

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