Lifestyle Pets Say Hello to Siku! Denmark's Cutest Polar Bear Cub The 1-month-old may be young, but he's already a pro at snaring the spotlight By People Staff Published on December 27, 2011 09:45 PM Share Tweet Pin Email Trending Videos 01 of 07 SWEET SNOOZE Rasmus Flindt Pedersen/Polfoto/Zuma Someone’s sleepy! Siku settles down for an adorable bit of shut-eye at his home in Jutland, Denmark, where the 1-month-old polar bear cub currently resides with zookeeper Frank Vigh-Larsen. 02 of 07 PAWS UP Rasmus Flindt Pedersen/Polfoto/Zuma After his Nov. 22 birth, caretakers at the Scandinavian Wildlife Park learned Siku’s mother Ika could not produce enough milk to feed him, so they have been hand-rearing him ever since. 03 of 07 LAID BACK Rasmus Flindt Pedersen/Polfoto/Zuma The growing little guy has learned to open his eyes in the past few weeks, and now weighs 8 lbs. 04 of 07 ON THE NOSE Rasmus Flindt Pedersen/Polfoto/Zuma Siku’s adorable antics, including precious moments like this one, have made him a rising star on the Internet, where a video of him stretching has racked up over 300,000 views. 05 of 07 PICTURE PERFECT Polaris Though the cheeky critter loves to stick out his tongue, he shows tremendous poise while posing for his portrait. 06 of 07 SHOULDER ON Rasmus Flindt Pedersen/Polfoto/Zuma Following a year of care, Siku will be reintroduced to the park’s polar bear community, but until then, he is happy to consider Vigh-Larsen his surrogate mother. 07 of 07 MOVING FORWARD Polaris As a maturing newborn, there’s plenty of cuteness in the future for Siku, whose name comes from the Greenlandic word for “sea ice.”