TOLEDO, Ohio — One of three Kodiak bears whose mother was killed by hunters has been relocated from Alaska to an Ohio zoo in a rare move.
The Blade newspaper reported the male cub, named Dodge, arrived last fall at the Toledo Zoo. He’s bonded with two female grizzly cubs that were moved from Yellowstone National Park after their mother killed a hiker and was killed.
The zoo expects the cubs will go on public exhibit this summer.
The zoo says hunters without a guide killed Dodge’s mother last spring. It’s illegal to kill female bears with cubs in Alaska. A second, guided group of hunters later searched for and found the cubs.
The cubs initially were hand-reared at the Alaska Zoo. Dodge’s siblings went to a zoo in Marshfield, Wisconsin.
