Firefighters and wildlife officers moved a mother bear and two cubs off a golf course
Albuquerque Fire Rescue helped New Mexico Game and Fish trap a mother bear and her two cubs at a golf course so the family could be relocated together.
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Albuquerque Fire Rescue helped New Mexico Game and Fish move a mother bear and her two cubs off Tanoan Golf Course, KOB 4 reported. Just after 12:30 p.m. on Monday, firefighters were called after wildlife officers had sedated and trapped the mother. The two cubs were still in a tree. Firefighters decided the safer plan was for Game and Fish to set traps for the cubs, and that is what the officers did, so the family could be relocated together rather than split up.
The call was a wildlife move, not a capture for a zoo. Officers and firefighters got the mother into a cage and then worked out how to bring the cubs down with her. The bears were taken off the course as a family.
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A mother bear and her two cubs were in a tree at a golf course in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Firefighters and state wildlife officers worked together to move the whole family. The officers had already trapped the mother. The cubs were still up in the tree, so the crews set traps for them too, instead of leaving the young bears behind. The plan was to relocate the mother and the cubs together. Nobody in the story was trying to keep the bears. They were trying to get the family off the golf course and back to a place where wild bears belong.
- Why did the crews want to move the cubs with their mother?
- What should people do when a wild bear is in a neighborhood?
- How is a wildlife officer's job different from a firefighter's job?
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