Autumn Welch and her team at the San Diego Humane Society are nurturing an orphaned black bear cub found alone in Los Padres National Forest. Weighing only 12 pounds, the cub was discovered weak and underweight two months prior. Welch employs unique methods, such as wearing a bear mask and costume, to encourage the cub's natural family behaviors, hoping to eventually reintroduce it to the wild once it is mature and healthy.
Autumn Welch dons a fur coat, leather gloves and a bear mask for work these days, then enters an enclosure to feed and fawn over a 12-pound (5.4 kg) black bear cub who she hopes will consider her family.
The orphaned cub was about two months old when he was found April 12 in Southern California's Los Padres National Forest weak, underweight and alone.
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