Just four months old, bear cubs Bradley and Cooper are still bottle-fed but they will soon have to forage into the Greek forest if they are to eat on their own, Reuters reports.
The pair of orphaned cubs, rescued by the Arcturos sanctuary in Macedonia of northern Greece, will be trained to survive in the wild – and anything else their mother would have taught them,
The cubs were located by a local in the village of Kozani about an hour away, and because they were kept in a sheep pen for a week, it was too late to reunite them with their mother.
Once winter arrives, they hibernate in the sanctuary and are moved into the forest before awaking. They are tagged and tracked to make sure they can survive in the wild. Those that do not adapt return to the sanctuary.
Arcturos, a non-profit organization, was established in 1992 with a primary goal to save dancing bears. The 50,000 square meter (12 acre) sanctuary near the village of Nymfaio nowadays hosts 14 bears unable to live in the wild, either because they are wounded or because they cannot adapt.
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