The new Knut? Orphan polar bear cub heads to zoo via UPS

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http://today.msnbc.msn.com/id/43515985/ns/today-today_pets_and_animals/

Qannik, a 5-month-old polar bear cub found as an orphan on Alaska’s North Slope in April, is being shipped on a UPS Boeing 747-400 from her temporary digs at the Alaska Zoo to the Glacier Run development in the Louisville Zoo in Kentucky.

But Qannik’s odyssey began even before ConocoPhillips employees found her all alone this spring. Researchers first saw the cub emerge from a snow den, along with her mother and a sibling, in February. When she was spotted again in late April, she was on her own. An aerial search for the mother and sibling turned up no clues, so the decision was made to rescue the young bear.

Don’t base your summer travel plans on catching a glimpse of the zoo’s newest northern transplant just yet, though — she’ll remain off exhibit for a while, until she’s adjusted to her new home, reports Courier-Journal.com.

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1. I'm so glad they found her. Nt

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2. This is the type of story that keeps me

going. So much of the time I wonder how much lower as a country we can get. Of course my love of animals helps. I've always been a half glass full person, but the Republicans keep snatching the glass away.