The cub, estimated at about 5 months old and 50 pounds, arrived from the Alaska Peninsula community by ACE Air Cargo flight about midnight last night, zoo development director Eileen Floyd said.
A sibling of the bear was killed and its mother, who may have been injured, disappeared aftere the attack by the boar, she said.
Two cubs, including the one now at the zoo, survived the attack and were seen frequenting the city dump in King Cove. Residents captured the zoo's cub there, but the other ran away.
The Alaska Zoo will hold the cub until the state Department of Fish and Game can determine which facility in the Lower 48 will receive it, Floyd said.
The cub is on display at the cub facility near the new infirmary.
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