Tarkus

Tarkus was found on the roadside by a trucker in a section between Sucre and Tarija where Andean bears are known to exist. A female bear got scared by the truck and ran with the two cubs. The smallest one fell a bit behind. The trucker decided to stop, capture the cub and take him to his house, where he kept him for more than two weeks. Later he called the environmental authorities in the City of Tarija to turn him in. Capturing the cub is never a good idea, it is virtually condemning him to a life in captivity for he will never be able to learn the abilities to survive in the wild his mother would have taught him. If he would have been left alone, the mother would have come back for him l...View all