The zoo says both mother and cub are doing well.
The surveillance camera shows the mother, Tonja giving birth to the minuscule, hairless cub, before turning to nurse it clean with her tongue. The cub is yet to be given a name.
Born deaf and blind, as is natural for polar bears, the tiny infant is seen rolling around and attempting to stand.
Zookeepers said the cub was eight-year-old Tonja’s and six-year-old Wolodja’s second cub after their first born Fritz died.
The zoo revealed that the CCTV footage of the enclosure Tonja retreated to showed that she gave birth to two cubs but one of them was stillborn and was not to be seen a short time later. According to the zoo, polar bear cubs have a 50 percent chance of survival.
Nobody will be entering Tonja’s enclosure over the coming days, as that crucial period requires complete calm for mother and cub
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