Orphaned bear cubs from Yukon arrive at Calgary zoo

Two orphaned black bear cubs from Yukon have arrived at the Calgary Zoo, their new home.

The cubs were orphaned in July whentheir mother was shot and killed by Yukonwildlife officersafter becoming a nuisance bear in a Whitehorse neighbourhood.

The mother bear and her cubshad been relocated once, but returned to the residential neighbourhood and could not be dissuaded from eating garbage.

In a release, the Calgary Zoo said the two cubsone male and one female will remain in quarantine for a health assessment.

Once that is complete, the zoo says the cubs will be slowly introduced to the zoo's three-year-old whiteblack bear, Manuka.

The zoo says it hopes the three bears will provide company for each other whileeducatingvisitors about the dangers of animals becoming habituated to humans.