Officials have seized a bear from a home after a family found it and decided to raise it as a pet.
A local tipped off the authorities about the cub’s presence in the residential property.
Environmental officials went to the home and seized the wild animal, whose “owners” agreed to give it up.
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The unnamed farmers claimed they found the creature alone in a woodland area and decided to take it in, as reported earlier this week.
When it was confiscated, the bear had been in their care for two months, according to local media.
It’s now being assessed at a facility in Colombia’s Antioquia region and will be transferred to a rehabilitation centre at a later date.
It’s not thought charges have been pressed against the family, as reported on Need To Know.
The spectacled bear, also known as tremarctos ornatus, is the only South American bear and feeds mainly on shoots and fruit.
They get their name from the white and yellow-ish marks around their eyes, and have a reputation for attacking cattle and other livestock.
The bears are usually docile around humans but mothers with young cubs have attacked intruders.
There’s been at least one reported killing of a human by a spectacled bear across the globe.
The species is classified by the IUCN as “vulnerable”.
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