{"id":435959,"date":"2010-03-16T11:40:18","date_gmt":"2010-03-16T15:40:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.earthportal.org\/news\/?p=3204"},"modified":"2010-03-16T11:40:18","modified_gmt":"2010-03-16T15:40:18","slug":"a-wild-black-bear-has-given-birth-live-on-internet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/435959","title":{"rendered":"A wild black bear has given birth live on internet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"first\"><a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/earth\/hi\/earth_news\/newsid_8462000\/8462296.stm\" >BBC:<\/a> A now-famous wild bear has successfully given birth  to a cub, an event shown live on the internet.<\/p>\n<p>Lily the black  bear gave birth on Friday 22 January, and mother and offspring have  spent the past few days acclimatising to each other.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/earth\/hi\/earth_news\/newsid_8462000\/8462296.stm\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/newsimg.bbc.co.uk\/media\/images\/47121000\/jpg\/_47121009_607.jpg\" width=\"221\" align=\"left\" height=\"134\" \/><\/a>The birth  and subsequent behaviour of the bears is being streamed live via a  webcam placed in the bear&#8217;s den by biologist Professor Lynn Rogers.<\/p>\n<p>This  was the first live birth of a wild bear ever recorded.<\/p>\n<p><!-- E SF -->Lily  has become something of a celebrity in north America.<\/p>\n<p>Her  pregnancy has been covered by the media, and she has a Facebook page  that has thousands of followers.<\/p>\n<p>However, Professor Rogers has serious reasons to film Lily and her  cub via the so-called &#8220;bearcam&#8221;, not least because it should provide  scientists with valuable new insights into bear behaviour.<\/p>\n<p>Lily  underwent a labour of almost 22 hours to give birth to a single cub.<\/p>\n<p>Black  bears usually produce one or two cubs in their first litter, and those  living alongside Lily in the woods of northern Minnesota, US often give  birth to three in subsequent litters.<\/p>\n<p>Lily is now insulating her  cub against the cold of a heavy snow fall last night, and appears to be  successfully nursing it.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Lily has one job now, keeping her cub  warm and fed. Instead of exiting the den periodically, Lily will spend  the next couple months hovering over the cub,&#8221; says Professor Rogers.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/earth\/hi\/earth_news\/newsid_8462000\/8462296.stm\" >Read more&gt;&gt; <\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"akst_link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.earthportal.org\/news\/?p=3204&amp;akst_action=share-this\"  title=\"E-mail this, post to del.icio.us, etc.\" id=\"akst_link_3204\" class=\"akst_share_link\" rel=\"nofollow\">Share This<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BBC: A now-famous wild bear has successfully given birth to a cub, an event shown live on the internet. Lily the black bear gave birth on Friday 22 January, and mother and offspring have spent the past few days acclimatising to each other. The birth and subsequent behaviour of the bears is being streamed live [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-435959","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/435959","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=435959"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/435959\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=435959"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=435959"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=435959"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}