Surreal Moment Adorable Polar Bear Appears To Wave To Photographer In Alaska
The two polar bear cubs were craning to view another family of bears as they walked past. But to the photographer who took ti photo it appeared that one was waving directly at her. The curious cubs stood on their hind legs to watch the other family troop past when one of the young bears, who was struggling to balance, stuck out his paw.
Clinical pharmacist Laura Keene, 57, spotted the bears while visiting the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge on the Barrier Islands, of Barter Island in Kaktovik Alaska. The two cute cubs wave for the camera: Keene, said: 'It was such a surreal moment for me as a photographer when I saw that wave movement.' After spotting a sleeping male polar bear close by, a second family of polar bears began to walk away from the area while this mother and her two cubs watched them leave. Adult males can attack and kill young polar bears and the protective mothers were consistently watching the male.