Maine wildlife biologists arrange unusual adoption when bear cub is orphaned

https://www.pressherald.com/2018/04/16/this-maine-mother-bear-will-find-a-surprise-in-her-den-when-she-wakes-up/

Maine wildlife officials arranged an unusual adoption last week after a mother bear was killed by a passing car in Caribou.

Caribou police called Game Warden Alan Dudley to report that the sow’s orphaned cub was in the area of the Route 1 crash and they could hear it calling, according to a blog post by Mark Latti, spokesman for the Maine Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife.

Maine Game Warden Alan Dudley holds the rescued cub. He brought the cub home with him in a dog kennel. Photo courtesy of Maine Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife

It was 10:30 p.m. and Dudley found the bleating cub a couple of feet up a tree. That’s as far as it could climb.

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