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I'm happy to see Jack is healing well.
But sometimes other bears fail to thrive and it's difficult to work out why.
It's mid-August
and June's sister, Juliet, now has a problem with another cub.
David is doing well, but little Mimi is sick.
She's shaking
and having a hard time keeping up with her mother.
Later that day
Mimi disappeared.
JULIET CALLS FOR MIMI
She's looking for her cub. Here's the one following her that's healthy.
We've just got to watch what Juliet does here...
She's looking round in these ruts, and there's space beneath the ruts, the bear could be under that rut.
There it is, there it is.
There's the cub.
She led us to her.
JULIET CALLS
Your heart really goes out to a little cub like this that,
er, is just trying hard to grow up and make its way
and got caught with some kind of sickness, I don't know what.
Juliet started with three cubs
and lost first a female and now this female is sick.
She's got a male still with her, very healthy...
Juliet seems like she doesn't know what to do...
Here's a cub that she's staying in the vicinity of where it is.
But she has to eat, make milk to help the other cub survive.
She's torn...
I'm just waiting to see what's going to happen in the next 24 hours with this bear.
It could, it could make a miraculous recovery and I'll be happy
or it could be that, it looks like it's just going downhill.
Many times through the research I've seen situations where I've wanted to help
and very glad that I didn't intervene because I wouldn't have learned anything.
I would have just helped one bear, and not learned anything that could help all bears.
That night, I returned to Mimi's resting spot under the tree.
She'll still warm, but dead...
And there are signs the mother has been back to check.
Here's a clump of fur that she probably checked to see if the cub was responsive.
And wasn't, and she wasn't here when I came, so she probably then just went on.
OK, come on, little girl.
I wanna see what happened to you...
OK, at least we'll find out
what happened.
It looks like she died in her sleep.
Her eyes are closed.
Poor sick cub.
MUSIC: "Delicate" by Damien Rice
# We are alone
# Nobody's watching
# We might take it home... #