Not just any mother bear and her cub, but a black bear with a white cub.
This mother Black Bear and her Albino cub were seen along a highway near Chapleau Ontario. Aboriginal people feel an Albino Black Bear is a powerful omen of good luck.
An albino bear is sometimes called the Spirit Bear or Ghost Bear but in the Cree language they are called the Kermode Bear. They are most common on the west coast of British Columbia but have been found in Ontario and Manitoba.
Origins: An albino black bear is a rarity, but as the photographs displayed above attest, an infant bear of that uncommon variety is what people started spotting near the Chemawawin Cree Nation in Manitoba (about 250 miles northwest of Winnipeg) around May 2004.
Visitors to the area began reporting to conservation officials that they had seen the snow-white cub roaming the First Nations community with its mother amidst a pack of black bears, sending tourists flocking to Oscar's Point at the northern tip of Lake Winnipegosis to catch a glimpse of the unusual little bruin.
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This mother Black Bear and her Albino cub were seen along a highway near Chapleau Ontario. Aboriginal people feel an Albino Black Bear is a powerful omen of good luck.
An albino bear is sometimes called the Spirit Bear or Ghost Bear but in the Cree language they are called the Kermode Bear. They are most common on the west coast of British Columbia but have been found in Ontario and Manitoba.
Origins: An albino black bear is a rarity, but as the photographs displayed above attest, an infant bear of that uncommon variety is what people started spotting near the Chemawawin Cree Nation in Manitoba (about 250 miles northwest of Winnipeg) around May 2004.
Visitors to the area began reporting to conservation officials that they had seen the snow-white cub roaming the First Nations community with its mother amidst a pack of black bears, sending tourists flocking to Oscar's Point at the northern tip of Lake Winnipegosis to catch a glimpse of the unusual little bruin.
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So beautiful! What are the chances of an albino cub surviving? Remembering the moron that shot the albino buck....
beautiful...we can only pray hunters never find him....they do not respect our beleifs of this being of good luck ..they rather kill ..just like white buffollos .....
Good omen, very beautiful and sacred. Don't tell people - could be the end for him.
Look wild life. Lets kill it
I hope the Little Spirit lives a long life, dies sleeping in her own den, and leaves many children and grandchildren behind.
Sweet bear, hope the little one has a long life and not killed or trapped.
HOPE SPIRIT HAVE MORE LITTLE SPIRITS .
A spirit bear. So cute.
it's not an albino. it's just a white cub, which is rare. albinos and kermodes are not the same thing.
the only issue I have with this is that Albino's have Red eye's. Or red around the eye's
It's not an Albino, Albino's have red eyes. It is simply a white color phase of a black bear. Black bears can come in black, brown, cinnamon, blond, blue-gray, or white.
Adorable! But like Anonymous says, it's not an albino :)
Still it is Adorable white cub.
I agree, it is not a true albino cub.....but is rare and beautiful.
I agree with a few others here, it is a white cub and not an albino cub.
They are referring to Ursus americanus kermodei, pron. kerr-MO-dee in Latin and pron. KER-mode in English. also known as a "spirit bear" (particularly in British Columbia), is a subspecies of the North American Black Bear living in the Central and North Coast regions of British Columbia, Canada. It is noted for about 1/10 of their population having white or cream-coloured coats. This colour morph is due to recessive genes common in the population. They are not albinos.
What a sight.
Very beautiful Spirit Bear. Not albino unless its eyes are pink ~ no pigmentation
its not an albino its nose is brown plus its eyes. It a blonde (black) bear its still rear to see them
what a beautiful white cub. please make sure this ber and her mom r protected