As the twenty-nine bear cubs at ABR continue to make progress, we have new reports from each area of the facility.
In WE #1, one independent cub sat up for a while while the others slept.
After a while, they all squished together.
In the morning they were lively and doing a lot of wrestling.
Such a round caboose! The Caboose Curvature Arrow pointed it out.
In WE #2, the cubs slept late, woke up, then went back to sleep. This is typical pre-hibernation behavior for bears.
Later, they did get up.
They headed to breakfast, but there was a straggler, of course.
In WE #3, the cubs seem to prefer sleeping on the ground nest near their “moonscape.”
They found a new place to dig.
All of them were participating . . .
Until they got bored and left (except for one cub).
Hey, where did they go?
Wait for me! The hole is pretty deep.Wonder what their plan is.
The Floating Pear appears in Acclimation Pen #4. Good amount of chonk here!
Tiny Crockett feels safe under the branches.
The curator scattered a few grapes to lure him out near his honey/meds bowl.
He returned to his safe place and went back to sleep.
Finally he ventured into Room #1.
He drank the bear milk replacement formula and tried the shelled walnuts, two small apples, peanut butter, and honey. He will gain weight!
The brothers next door, Rags and Scruffy, slept together.
Rags went outside when his brother got too playful.
Rags told Scruffy to leave him alone.
Scruffy respected his brother’s request, and returned inside, while Rags settled down on the far end of the platform.
The two boys are doing well. Rags has stopped pacing. He climbed into the firehose hammock and let Scruffy join him. The curators have been glad to see Rags stick up for himself. As the smaller cub, he was dominated by his brother when they first arrived.