I think I have about exhausted the "royal wedding" pics, so I'll move on to another surefire vote-getter...animals.
In this case, it's the story of a precious polar bear cub who somehow got separated from his mother, was starving, and had to be rescued.
Officials from the Alaska Zoo in Anchorage were helping to escort the 17-pound cub from the North Slope, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service said Friday. The female cub, estimated to be at least 4 months old, was herded into a net and kept in a large dog kennel, said Rosa Meehan, the Fish and Wildlife Service marine mammals manager in Alaska.
"It was initially shaking from the stress, but it settled down and has been resting quietly," she said.
The cub will stay at the zoo until a home is found, said zoo office manager Heather Schaad. The zoo already has two polar bears and four other bears and doesn't have the facilities to keep the cub permanently, Schaad said.
The cub was captured at the Alpine oil field and fed a commercial puppy milk replacement fortified with whipping cream to meet her nutritional needs, Fish and Wildlife officials said.
She was first spotted after emerging from a den with her mother and a sibling seven weeks ago, Meehan said. Researchers with the U.S. Geological Survey had captured the sow and her cubs and put a radio collar on the mother.
"Unfortunately, the collar slipped off a few days later," Meehan said.
The cub was spotted again Tuesday, but she was alone, orphaned or separated from her mother. Alpine operators contacted the Fish and Wildlife Service, which asked them to conduct an aerial search for the mother, Meehan said. Operators are required to notify the agency whenever they see the far-north animal.
After the search wrapped up, the cub was gone. Then she showed up again Thursday, and Fish and Wildlife coordinated plans with the zoo to collect the bear.
To read the rest of this story, click on this link: https://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/04/30/polar-bear-cub-rescued-at_n_855868.htmlÂ