Bear believed to be burned while hibernating now recovering at B.C. wildlife shelter
Global News
'We got the call on Saturday evening that this bear was curled up on the middle of the road and somebody shooed it off the road,' Angelika Langen said.
WARNING: A photo of the bear appears lower down in the story. It might be distressing to some readers.
A young bear is spending her Christmas at a northern B.C. wildlife centre after she was discovered curled up in the middle of the road near Dawson Creek.
“We got the call on Saturday evening that this bear was curled up on the middle of the road and somebody shooed it off the road into the snow underneath a tree,” Angelika Langen, executive director at the Northern Lights Wildlife Society in Smithers, told Global News.
“They called us for help because they felt that the animal was not in good shape.
“On Sunday, we got permission from the government to rescue and then our volunteer went out, met with the gentleman who had made the report and together they managed to put the bear into a transport box and get it onto a truck.”
Langen said the volunteer kept the bear overnight to warm her up slowly and then she was transported to the Northern Lights Wildlife Society on Monday.
“At that point, we thought we were looking at the bear being frostbitten because temperatures up in Dawson Creek had been really low and so yesterday we did an exam after we kind of observed for another night,” she added.
However, they soon discovered the bear wasn’t frostbitten, but burned.
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