From Russia with love: The doting father bear who can't help cuddling his cub
From the daily mail(http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/) From Russia with love: Th e doting father bear who can't help cuddling his cub By Daily Mail Reporter Last updated at 1:51 PM on 12th April 2011
This is the touching moment a baby bear gets swept up in a big cuddle - from her affectionate father. What makes the photographs, taken at a zoo in eastern Russia, so fascinating is that most male bears have nothing to do with their cubs and leave the rearing to females. But Balu is more hands-on than most with four-month-old daughter Diva and is content to give her a proper bear hug.
Bear your soul: Father Balu has formed an unusually tight bond with his female cub Diva
He even appears to be bl owing a raspberry on her tummy while mother Masha looks on. Keepers at Primorsky Zoo in Russia were stunned by Balu's unusual devotion to his daughter. Zoo director Elena Aseidulina, 34, who took the photographs, said: 'The father, agai...