The Detroit Zoo welcomed three new residents Friday morning. Grizzly bears Mike, Thor and Boo — 11-month-old brothers — landed at Detroit Metro Airport around 5:15 a.m. Friday morning after a long flight from Anchorage, Alaska, and have since arrived in Royal Oak, according to the zoo.
The three bears were orphaned in October after their mother was shot and killed following an encounter with a person in Alaska. The brothers were later seen in residential areas around Anchorage searching for food before being rescued by the Alaska Department of Fish and Game, which decided the cubs couldn’t survive an Alaskan winter without their mother.
The cubs stand between 2 ½- and 3-feet tall and weigh between 100 and 125 pounds. They could grow as tall as 8 feet and weigh up to 800 pounds.
Alaska’s environmental group reached out to the Detroit Zoo to give the bears a chance to live with two other grizzlies — 27-year-old female Kintla and 26-year-old male Lakota, both rescues — in a habitat made specifically for the bears.
“We’re just very excited because the cubs seem to be in good health, and they’re very busy exploring their new environment,” said Ron Kagan, the zoo’s executive director, in a release.
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