Agree with a lot of this but it looks like it's a situation where that bear won't be in the wild to begin with for whatever reason.
My ears burn enough when I hear people talk about how they don't bear bag/conceal food camping etc. because they're convinced that bears can't smell it or don't bother anything like that when there's stories of bears breaking into cars with the only 'scented' thing in there being chapstick.
Don't have FB but I'll see if I can find other stuff on that ABR. I've had a couple of encounters up north and while a bit frightening in a couple, they're such cool animals.
They had four neo-nates this year. One pair were only days old; the second pair were a little over 2 weeks old. Of the first pair, they found a healthy sow denned up with her two cubs and made arrangements to foster the cubs into the den with the sow. Unfortunately one of the siblings died the day before they were to be moved, but the other was successfully fostered. The sow hasn't emerged from her den yet (should be soon) but as far as they know all is well in the den.
The second pair were exposed to the elements when the tree they were in blew down in a storm and the mother was frightened away by people who came to deal with the tree. One died after just a say or so, the other survived up until last week (almost 7 weeks old). They had found a foster sow, but the little cub took a sudden turn for the worse and they lost her. She was actually at the UT Vet med hospital in their ICU when she died.
Neonates are extremely fragile; they are a 50/50 shot at best when they are that young. That cub appears to be a little older, more like 2 months. Most of the cubs that are brought to ABR by the different wildlife management groups are a little older; they've already left the den and are traveling around with their mothers.
