It’s important for animals to be around their pack.

And young animals still need to be with their mom.

If a young mammal gets separated from its mother, things can get hard for them really fast, because they haven’t necessarily learned all of life’s lessons yet.

This polar bear’s mom died, leaving her alone and struggling.

Which is very sad. But fortunately, things did not stay hard for too long for her.

A group of gold miners in the Arctic found her alone.

They immediately knew they had to keep her with them at their camp. After taking care of her and feeding her, she began to trust them, and everyone felt like family.

Eventually, she began to trust them so much that she would give them hugs.

The polar bear and the miners would play games together and they would get hugs from her. That usually never happens with an animal you find in the wild!

But for this group of people and bear, they built a really special relationship. In a now-viral video, you can see this special bond, evidenced by the bear happily giving out hugs.

But the miners knew that keeping her around people wasn’t best for her, and they had to move on.

The miners knew they were able to care for this cub properly. They contacted people who would be better able to rescue her and then left the scene.

It is technically illegal to feed wild bears, but animal rights groups recognized that this was a special case. Andrey Gorban, the director of Royev Ruchei Zoo shared this touched reaction:

“Shift workers saved its life, the cub had no chance to survive. For right or wrong, but they fed the endangered animal and through that tamed it…

So we were told that the men were leaving back to the mainland, and the cub stayed there alone. Our only hope was that they left quite a big open rubbish site, so there was a chance that the cub could feed off it for weeks”

After the miners left, the Moscow Zoo went in to rescue her.

The Moscow is well-equipped to help support this little bear’s needs. Because she was so young and on her own, the experts decided that she probably would not survive in the wild, so they took her to Moscow.

She was rescued and rehabilitated by medical and animal experts. She was about 34 kg underweight, so she needed to gain the weight back. Additionally, the team went to work to help her regain her energy. She finally got the care that animals and any young creature needs.

The Moscow Zoo documents her life thoroughly now, and she seems to be thriving!

The zoo posts updates about her life and how she has grown since being in a stable living environment.

It is thanks to so many people who encountered her and everyone who went out of their way to help this bear survive.

Every creature deserves a chance at a fair and healthy life. We love hearing these stories about wonderful interspecies relationships that help each other thrive.

Watch the video below for some bear-hug cuteness.

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Source: The Siberian Times, YouTube – The Siberian Times, Facebook – Moscow Zoo