Four Days Old, Weakened and Unable to Take a Baby bottle... The "Last Resort" Taken by the Female Zookeeper Who Saved Hanako, a Baby Brown Bear.

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Naoko Maeda has been involved in the breeding and conservation of brown bears for nearly half a century. Her motivation stemmed from her experience in 1975, when she became the first woman to work as a zookeeper at the Noboribetsu Bear Park, where she raised a cub that had been abandoned by its mother. This non-fiction book, a collection of testimonies from people fascinated by bears, introduces the story of this woman who became a "mother of br…