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Four months a female polar bear, found between the islands of the East Siberian Sea inspectors specially protected natural territories of Yakutia working on the project WWF «Bear Patrol" settles two-aviary in the national zoo "Orto Doydu." And the residents of the district Nizhnekolymsky come up for compatriot name, most tend to Kolymane.
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On Tuesday evening, the baby and her attendants at the airport of Yakutsk met flashes and photographic cameras. Zoo, where the bear resolution of Rosprirodnadzor identified for temporary maintenance and rehabilitation, he was riding in the car Director of "Ortho Doydu" Luka Safonov in the carrying case.



While Luke Nikolaevich and program coordinator of the Marine Mammal Council, an expert on walruses and bears Varvara Semenova (Moscow) spoke about fighting spirit foundling, out of the box was no sound, only a towel, which was covered window loomed curious nose, greedily inhaled unfamiliar smells.



In the zoo, despite the late hour and the snow began at the gate to greet the newcomer gathered nearly all employees. For people who have prepared hot tea and a huge cake with a picture of a white bear, and for the main culprits celebrations - baby beef meat and mashed mess, the ice bath was established, in which she once tried to climb up, and put toys.

Snapping at reporters huddled around the cage, seeking to capture the moment of release, a small hostess Arctic sniffed his new home, and apparently was satisfied. If all goes well, by the fall, it will move to a special large enclosure for polar bears with a deep pool already built at the zoo.

Now we have the official guardian of the bear - Section Head of predatory animals "Ortho Doydu" Ruslan Ignatyev, who has extensive experience in the cultivation of brown bears. Baby set him non-stop. The first night, according to Ruslan Mikhailovich and veterinarian Paraskevi Efimova was quiet.



The day on which found the bear, apparently could be his last.

- Seeing the lone footprints bear walking on the frozen sea between the islands among the hummocks and Krestovskiy Chetyrehstolbovoy strictly north-east - said the chief specialist of the Department of Biological Resources Ministry of Natural Resources of Sakha (Yakutia) Fedor Yakovlev, - we first tried to find a bear. Toured all around, looked through binoculars, but no hint of its existence, or place of death were not.

By law, had no right to withdraw from the nature of the beast, in the Red Book, but a human being to leave a small, emaciated bear, which at that time by all indications for two or three days he lost his mother in the cold wind, close to marching in his Wolverine footsteps could not. Reported by satellite phone to the Ministry of Nature Protection of Yakutia, Rosprirodnadzor and took it with him. After some more time looking for the bear, all in vain.

Norov young one shows the first minutes of communication with people, kick, bite, scratch, seeing his rescuers tried to flee. Can afford to stroke, if the feed, but in the hand is not. Allowed to do so only to the inspector of protected areas Nizhnekolymsky district Ruslan Sleptsov.



Told us Ruslan Sleptsov, at the time of replacing the bear cub's mother, the hardest part was to teach her to eat. From bottles and rolled-up rags fashioned pacifier, poured into her warm little water diluted condensed milk. To get a taste of food, the first drops had to literally put into the mouth. Accustomed to the semolina and rice porridge, noodles with milk as a child, Ruslan few days to feed her with a spoon. For the wild beast that too was not easy, she could not understand what was expected of her, trying to bite off a spoon. Without much enthusiasm he ate fish. But the proposed Nerpichiya fat people rasprobovali immediately took small pieces with your hands and could even allow myself to stroke.



- No wonder - says Ruslan V., which only one of the team managed to take the baby in her arms - love for him from the polar bear lies at the genetic level, because the seal - their staple food.

After a week and a half, when the bear patrol with foundling was about to leave with Chetyrehstolbovogo above them, out of nowhere, came the crows. Shouted "DRE DRE", he flew to outliers and then accompanied the expedition to the sea. Such in these parts do not recall even a veteran of the Lower Kolyma Vyacheslav Savich.

Then, only closed door of the house and began to sit on snowmobiles in the other side, where they were to go on the slope there was a wolf. He stood looking at the people, taking the bear, and went away.

Only after the island in the sea, and they returned in their footsteps, to see lying on the "roadside" seals. After letting the expedition of two hundred meters, she dived into the hole.



We drove a little bit more ahead found traces of two large bears. Measure the length of the print - 28 cm. Apparently, the owners of the Arctic hit the road early in the morning, and went on the road in front of the snowmobile, without turning, 13 km away.

Not only as the spirits of nature accompanied the bear into a new life. One can see not just a beast saved our bear patrol.

- When traveling from Pohodska, spent 12 hours to get from the main cordon resource reserve "Kurdigino-Cross" to Chetyrehstolbovogo - says Fedor Yakovlev, - exhausted, broken sled, Ruslan inverted three times in the Toros, and back like clockwork - for six o'clock. The road seemed specially cleaned.
In Chersky they were met by the director of the national zoo "Orto Doydu" Luka Safonov and program coordinator of the Marine Mammal Council, an expert on bears and walruses from Moscow Varvara Semenova. Bear, is made out required for its transportation documents determined to hold on to the garage Vyacheslav Savich.

- For us it behaved nicely and modestly - smiles Barbara - and come back in the garage chaos everywhere lying scattered on the floor and the frozen bolts. On the day of departure all start pulling off to his litter. First he ate and dragged a wooden spoon. Well, I think that's a good sign to play, then fine feeling. Then pull up the pot. After it pulled out from somewhere packages. Men laugh: "She is not only the nature of women, it is the same economic". During the dialogue with young people has remained wild. She is very sure of herself, and it's nice to have such bears in the subsequent longer developed maternal instinct. Exception - Ruslan Sleptsov, with whom she has developed a great touch. When going to Yakutsk, even offered to put in a carrying case his hat to smell someone native.



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