(CNN) — Gloves, a fur coat and a bear mask. This outfit might sound like avant-garde fashion, but it’s actually the uniform of caretakers at the San Diego Humane Society who are raising an orphaned black bear cub.

Campers in California’s Los Padres National Forest found the cub in April. Biologists from the state’s Department of Fish and Wildlife tried looking for the cub’s mother for several days. After no sign of her, the humane society took him in.

The cub, who was nearly two months old when he was taken in, is the youngest black bear the organization has ever cared for, according to Autumn Welch, the society’s wildlife operations manager and one of the cub’s caregivers.

“At that age, he would be with his mom 24/7 and not really venture away from the den,” Welch said. “He definitely

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