The pictures speak for themselves, but you can read more about it here. I’ll just add that these photos were taken in the wild, not in a zoo, and required 117 hours of observation by photographer Daisy Gilardini to get the shots.
It was worth the waiting!
When I see photos like this, I KNOW that the photographer has spent a lot of time in the field – thanks for sharing these wonderful captures!!
Squee! I guess we all start off clinging to mom.
I hope she was using a very long lens.
Exactly my thoughts as well. Long Long lens.
Ha! That perfectly embodies what having a 3-year old can be like.
A pain in the butt?
Oooh! Squee it is! Baby is snowy white and hasn’t darkened a bit like mama bear.
“Motherhood is easy, my ass!”
Mom taxi!
Wonderful photos and mom bear knows exactly where the photographer is: too far away to become a nice snack.
Just riding bear- back.
Ya, and note the bear feet!
I’m reminded of the physics limerick about bolometers, which I found many years ago in a splendid book called “A Random Walk in Science”:
O! Langley devised the bolometer.
It’s really a kind of thermometer,
To measure the heat
Of a polar bear’s feet,
At a distance of half a kilometre!
“A Random Walk in Science”, I find, is available on line. Quite enjoyable.
There’s a paper in it called “Theoretical zipperdynamics”, about how quantum mechanics effects the operation of zippers. Fun.
Wouldn’t it be great if you could give the bear a hug and then play with the cub?
It’s been done many times by tourists in National Parks. Mostly with black bears, who learn to beg for food. Fun starts when the tourist decides that the bear has had enough but the bear doesn’t agree, vehemently.
Baby Got Back
simply wow.. the photographer must have spent a lot of time winning trust .. else its an impossible task… wonderful click.. thanks for sharing …
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That was so unexpected! Who know baby polar bears clung to their mothers that way? I sure didn’t! Do other bears do that, too?