Toronto Polar Bear Cub Spends 3 Month Birthday Playing In The Snow
There's no question this cub is Canadian.
Joy D'Souza— The Huffington Post Canada
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While most Canadians are bundling up and preparing for a long weekend indoors, one young Canuck couldn't be happier to play in the cold and snow.
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The Toronto Zoo recently announced a major milestone for one of their new cubs. Their unnamed female cub just turned three months old. To celebrate, the zoo introduced the young cub to the snow for the very first time. And from the look on her adorable face, it's clear that she enjoyed it.
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The cub is slowly being acclimatized to the outdoors as she currently resides in the maternity den of the zoo's polar bear exhibit and is not yet on view to the public.
But she is on view for this video posted to Twitter by the zoo!
According to a press release, the cub is now 16.5 lbs, and eats five times a day. While she still receives formula, meat is slowly being added to her diet.
Two polar bears sparring and play-fighting in Churchill, Man. When mating occurs in April and May out on the frozen Bay, these fights will be for real. (credit:Jim Edwards / Barcroft Media / Getty Images)
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One of many polar bear alert warning signs posted inside the town of Churchill, Man. (credit:Paul J. Richards/AFP/Getty Images)
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Natural Resource Officer Bob Windsor with a tranquilized polar bear at release site during 2010 in Churchill, Man. The town runs a polar bear prison to handle bears which roam the town looking for food. The 28-cell jail is the only one of it's kind in the world and holds its prisoners for around 30 days before releasing them into the wild. (credit:Manitoba Conservation/Barcroft via Getty Images)
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The Polar Bear Holding facility seen during 2011 in Churchill, Man. (credit:Manitoba Conservation/Barcroft via Getty Images)
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Mantioba Natural Resources Officer Shaun Bobier tows a tranquilized polar bear after it spent two weeks in the holding facility, got a lip tattoo, a tracking ear tag, and a through measuring for size, and is headed for a cargo net to be air lifted by helicopter out of town in 2007. (credit:Paul J. Richards/AFP/Getty Images)
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Young bears watch the two older polar bears spar in Manitoba. (credit:Jim Edwards / Barcroft Media / Getty Images)
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Polar bear mother and cub in Churchill, Man. in an image from a book "My Favourite Animal Families" by British wildlife photographer Steve Bloom. (credit:stevebloom.com/Barcroft via Getty Images)
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A polar bear plays with a bush on the tundra while waiting for the Hudson Bay to freeze in 2007 outside Churchill, Man. (credit:Paul J. Richards/AFP/Getty Images)
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Two polar bears play near the shoreline of Hudson Bay in 2007 outside Churchill, Man. as they wait for the bay to freeze over. (credit:Paul J. Richards/AFP/Getty Images)
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Manitoba Natural Resources Officer Shaun Bobier takes a look at the last polar bear trap in operation for the season and proceeds to close it as most of the polar bears have moved out of the city on Nov. 17, 2007. (credit:Paul J. Richards/AFP/Getty Images)
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