On April 12, campers in Los Padres National Forest in California heard the cries of an animal. It was a male black bear cub that looked hungry and weak. He was about 2 months old and weighed only 3 pounds.
The campers called rescue workers from the California Department of Fish and Wildlife. They searched for the cub’s mother. But she was nowhere to be found.
Bear cubs depend entirely on their mothers for the first year of their lives. Mothers provide food for their babies. They also protect cubs from hungry predators, like mountain lions and coyotes. Without its mother, a cub might not survive in the wild. What would happen to this little bear?