American black bear youngster

American black bear [Ursus americanus] youngster - Bear/Wolf Reserve - Woburn Safari Park - 27/05/2013.

Yes, he/she certainly doesn't look like one of the fat adults, but do they look slimmer in the spring? Its not the new male?

Otherwise seems like they have bred them but not publicised it?

Pertinax said:

Yes, he/she certainly doesn't look like one of the fat adults, but do they look slimmer in the spring? Its not the new male?

Otherwise seems like they have bred them but not publicised it?

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Don't know, as I mentioned in the thread I didn't get anything confirmed so could be incorrect, but there was two bears this size that were keeping close together as if they are siblings, and there was also a 'full sized' bear resting nearby. We only saw the two bears this size, we saw a further 3 at least that were all the size of your average American black bear

Javan Rhino said:

but there was two bears this size that were keeping close together as if they are siblings, and there was also a 'full sized' bear resting nearby.

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Certainly sounds like cub behaviour.

it does look like a young animal and not (for example) a slim adult

From the news on the Woburn threads, they have recently imported five new young animals to add to the existing Bears.So Javan Rhino's observation about siblng behaviour may well still probably be correct- they just weren't born at Woburn(or in the UK).