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Jessica Mador
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Missing cub reunited with mother bear

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Bear cub Hope
In this May 26, 2010 photo, a bear cub named Hope sits in a cedar tree near Ely, Minn., in Eagles Nest Township before being captured by bear researcher Lynn Rogers. The missing bear cub who attracted a widespread Internet following was found and reunited with its mother in northeastern Minnesota.
AP Photo/The Duluth News Tribune, Clint Austin

A world-famous northern Minnesota bear cub that has been missing since Friday has been rescued and reunited with its mother.

The bear cub Hope went missing after she and her mother Lily climbed a pine tree to rest. The mother bear then left the tree and wandered more than two miles away. By the time she returned to the tree Sunday, Hope was gone.

Community members and officials have been searching for the little bear ever since. The bear has also been followed on Facebook.

The Duluth News Tribune reports that after the cub was found, researchers tracked down its mother, who has a GPS collar. But, they weren't certain she would take the cub back. But, as soon as the two were reunited, Hope began to nurse.

Video of Hope's birth in January was available on the Internet from a "den cam" that captured her mother's pregnancy.

(The Associated Press contributed to this report.)

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Bear cub Hope
In this May 26, 2010 photo, a bear cub named Hope sits in a cedar tree near Ely, Minn., in Eagles Nest Township before being captured by bear researcher Lynn Rogers. The missing bear cub who attracted a widespread Internet following was found and reunited with its mother in northeastern Minnesota.
AP Photo/The Duluth News Tribune, Clint Austin
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Hope in a tree
In this May 26, 2010 photo, an unidentified researcher from the North American Bear Center uses food to lure a bear cub named Hope out of a cedar tree near Ely, Minn. in Eagles Nest Township. The missing bear cub who attracted a widespread Internet following was found and reunited with its mother in northeastern Minnesota.
AP Photo/The Duluth News Tribune, Clint Austin