Southern Utah. Sports Utah Jazz. BYU Cougars. Utah Utes. Pac Hotline. Utah State Aggies. Weber State Wildcats. Real Salt Lake. High School. Brandview Brad DeBry Law. Minky Couture. Salt Lake Chamber. U of U Health. MountainStar Healthcare. Intermountain Healthcare. Utah Office of Tourism. Accident Resource Center. TV Watch Live. Meet Our Team. KSL Investigators. High 5. Studio 5. Like Tinder, the Species Survival Plan through the Association of Zoos and Aquariums matches animals from different zoos electronically.
Unlike Tinder, the program makes matches based on strong genetics instead of headshots, selfies and one-liners. The matchmakers are hoping Hope will produce healthy cubs at her new zoo. People who want to wish Hope and Nora farewell before they leave must reserve a spot online in advance because of COVID precautions. The zoo is open seven days a week. Masks are required for everyone who is 3 or older.
Donate to the newsroom now. An SSP is a way to manage genetics within the zoo-based population of a species to maximize the chances of healthy reproduction. Nik and Anana are a good genetic match, and we hope that they'll have some adorable little cubs in the future! In the wild, polar bears are mostly solitary and only come together for a short time during the breeding season. You might see a mother bear with her cubs or congregations of bears at large carcasses whales mostly when food resources are low, but males and females stay separate for most of the year outside of those circumstances, and they like it that way!
Breeding season starts as early as February and runs through May, sometimes even June. Males will actively seek out, track, and protect females hoping they can court her and breed with her while she is cycling. Females will typically cycle for about a week, and the male if he's not too much of a pest and she chooses to let him hang around will breed with her while he guards her against any other male polar bears in the area.
After the week of courtship and breeding, the male and female go their separate ways. As if the social part isn't complicated enough, the females go through what's called "delayed implantation. The female spends time in between breeding and implantation trying to build up fat reserves in her body to live on while she's denning over the winter. Denning is building a quiet, secluded, and concealed cave in the snow. If all of the stars align and the lady bear has all of the resources she needs, she will confine herself to the safe den during her cubs' gestation.
Moms and cubs stay in the den until the cubs are big enough to keep up with her out in the harsh arctic landscape. While in the den, she doesn't eat, poop, or pee! She rests, conserves her energy, and feeds her cubs. The average litter size is two, and most cubs are born in late November some are born in December and rarely in January , and they only weigh around 1lb at birth!
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