{"id":331,"date":"2007-06-04T00:00:01","date_gmt":"2007-06-04T08:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/portfolio\/black-bear-cub\/"},"modified":"2007-06-04T00:00:01","modified_gmt":"2007-06-04T08:00:01","slug":"black-bear-cub","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/log\/black-bear-cub.html","title":{"rendered":"Photo of a Black Bear Cub"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/spotlight.php?img=18746\" title=\"Black bear cub in a tree.  Mother bears will often send thei...\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/stock-photo\/black-bear-cub-image-18746-819053.jpg\" alt=\"Black bear cub in a tree.  Mother bears will often send their cubs up into the safety of a tree if larger bears (who might seek to injure the cubs) are nearby.  Black bears have sharp claws and, in spite of their size, are expert tree climbers, Ursus americanus, Orr, Minnesota\" title=\"Black bear cub in a tree.  Mother bears will often send their cubs up into the safety of a tree if larger bears (who might seek to injure the cubs) are nearby.  Black bears have sharp claws and, in spite of their size, are expert tree climbers, Ursus americanus, Orr, Minnesota\" class=\"aligncenter\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Black bear cub in a tree.  Mother bears will often send their cubs up into the safety of a tree if larger bears (who might seek to injure the cubs) are nearby.  Black bears have sharp claws and, in spite of their size, are expert tree climbers.<br \/>Image ID: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/spotlight.php?img=18746\">18746<\/a><br \/>Species: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/american_black_bear_photo.html\" title=\"American black bear photos\">American black bear<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/lightbox.php?sp=Ursus_americanus\" title=\"Ursus americanus photos\"><i>Ursus americanus<\/i><\/a><br \/>Location: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/lightbox.php?city=orr&amp;state=minnesota&amp;country=usa\">Orr<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/lightbox.php?state=minnesota&amp;country=usa\">Minnesota<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/lightbox.php?country=usa\">USA<\/a><\/p>\n<p>This is a &#8220;spring cub&#8221;, an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/american_black_bear_photo.html\">American black bear<\/a> (<em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/lightbox.php?sp=Ursus_americanus\">Ursus americanus<\/a><\/em>) cub that was born this spring.  It will remain with its mother for about a year.  At this size it is completely dependent on its mother for everything.  A black <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/bear_cub_photo.html\">bear cub<\/a> is a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/spotlight.php?img=18753\">natural climber<\/a> and it is common for them to scamper 40 &#8211; 60&#8242; up a tree trunk to avoid danger.  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/spotlight.php?img=18850\">Wedging itself in the crook of a branch<\/a>, the cub will remain in the tree for hours until its mother grunts at the base of the tree, indicating it is time to come down.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Black bear cub in a tree. Mother bears will often send their cubs up into the safety of a tree if larger bears (who might seek to injure the cubs) are nearby. Black bears have sharp claws and, in spite of their size, are expert tree climbers.Image ID: 18746Species: American&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[149,90,103,134],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-331","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-black-bear","7":"category-minnesota","8":"category-photo-of-the-day","9":"category-wildlife"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=331"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=331"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=331"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=331"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}