A polar bear called Uslada eats a carved pumpkin during a Halloween celebration at the zoo in St. Petersburg, October 26, 2013.

A polar bear which has been orphaned is not getting settled at the Assiniboine Park Zoo in Winnipeg. On the other hand, there are several people who think it is a bad idea to unsettle the polar bear from its wild habitat.

The female cub is 11 months old. It was found near Churchill's airport as it was wandering there alone. According to zoo officials, an extensive search has already been conducted in the area for any female bear that might be its mother. However, there was no such female bear was found in the area. That was when it was confirmed that the polar bear had really been orphaned.

John Jacozza, who is a senior instructor at the department of geography and environment at the University of Manitoba, said that nature must be left alone at times. He also said that the cub should have been left alone to survive on its own in the wild. She might have had a low probability to do so, but she should still have been given the chance.

On the other hand, zoo officials insisted that it was their prerogative as well to keep polar bears in the wild. However, there is hardly any example of an orphaned cub surviving on its own in the wild. The Assiniboine Park Conservancy COO Don Peterkin told at the International Polar Bear Conservation Centre that the zoo had been built exactly for that purpose. The zoo was built to give shelter to orphaned polar bear cubs which could not survive on their own.

Meanwhile, the southern population of polar bears on the globe got together on the banks of the Hudson Bay in the northern part of Manitoba. It happens every year during October and November as they gather for the annual migration. Around a thousand polar bears migrate across the sea ice which happens to be an unpredictable terrain for traversing.