An “abnormally tiny” bear cub is stumping wildlife experts at a park in Arizona.Buddy the bear cub was rescued from a neighborhood in Tucson, and Bearizona Wildlife Park took the little guy in, according to a Dec. 19 news release posted to the park’s social media pages.Experts assume Buddy is almost a year old, since most cubs are born in January or February, officials said. At 1 year old, the average cub should weigh approximately 70 pounds.But he only weighs about 15 pounds — about what a 4- or 5-month-old cub should weigh, officials said. Yet he’s still “relatively healthy.”“The math doesn’t work,” Arizona Game and Fish spokesman Mark Hart said in the release.[embedded content]Buddy’s size isn’t the only puzzling aspect of the little cub’s history, officials said. Hart was also “stumped by the mystery of how the bear made its way off the Catalina Mountains if it was orphaned or abandoned.”“If it got separated from its mother, regardless of why in the backcountry, how did a bear that small get all of the way off the mountain?” he asked. “We would have thought that a bear …
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