Polar Bear Purrs When Cuddling with Her Human Dad

[Music] [Music] Hagi is a polar bear and mark has been her guardian provider and playmate since she was eight weeks old mark is the only person in the world who has this kind of bond with a fully grown polar bear and apparently with anyone other than Mark or his wife Dawn Agee can get a bit cranky when someone starts talking to me it takes my attention away from her she gets upset about it dawn can take my attention as much as she wants because Aggie doesn't mind done is she's used to me talking all the time she's super protective of you to think is that what this behaviors about her what I think she's just possessive possessive I need to see this with my own eyes getting close to a jealous and potentially dangerous polar bear is little disconcerting but don't tells me I'll be fine as long as I let Aggie have all of marks attention time to go through this it's already very curious isn't she hi honey can you hear it what's that her new new she's could if you quiet you can hear it that low Rumble yes what is that that's her it's almost like a purring noise for a cat but it's her she makes because she's super content and she's sucking on her tongue right now I thought it was an engine somewhere or something that is actually coming from the pillar beds coming from her she's clearly really close to mark how do you think Adi sees him Agee sees him as her mother and father together really and companion so this is all about Adi thinking of him as kin right since eight weeks away oh gee as long as she can remember Marc trains animals for the movie industry and 18 years ago he was asked to find a polar bear for a film he'd heard about a cub that was being hand reared by staff at a zoo as her mother was getting too old Ali was the 11th baby born with this mother so this mother couldn't properly care for her so Marc took her on and trained her for the film but he didn't expect their relationship to develop in the way it did it's my job and it's what I had to do and then as I'm doing it we became very very attached to her so tell me what you feel about your relationship with aggi it's just a really special bond I love her a lot I can't say she loves me she really is bonded to me she loves him there you go so we have a really wonderful relationship and I would never change that for anything [Music] whatever you think of this situation mark has an incredibly close bond with Aggie and even though she is a fully grown polar bear with the strength to kill with one blow he's never felt in danger around her and it seems this has all been made possible because he hand reared her from a very young age

Channel: Animal Planet

Views: 12,172,532

Rating: 4.9039865 out of 5

Keywords: nature documentary, world's oddest animals, animal couples, animal friendships, agee polar bear, bear human relationship, hand raised polar bear, polar bears

Id: eiE7GNkr9Uo

Length: 3min 38sec (218 seconds)

Published: Tue Oct 06 2015