Dash(ing) to Freedom
A big day for Dash Bear – she finally got out of the Red Roof Recovery Center and right into Wild Enclosure #3 where Piccola Bear is residing. Here are…
Another Day. . .
As usual, the Six-pack of cubs in Wild Enclosure #4 are busily eating and “chubbifying.” They are doing a great job! Meanwhile, our yearling isn’t foraging so actively. She has…
Fluffy Cubs
The bear cubs are growing their first winter coats, which make them appear to be fluffier and larger. Of course, the quantities of food they consume help to make them…
Foraging Bears
One of the favorite activities (and most important) for our bears is foraging and eating the foods that help them to grow strong. Here we see some of the foraging…
Cub Searches for Food
We did a post all about Piccola, so today we will post about the other bears. Even though all six of the Six-pack cubs checked the Acclimation Pen the other…
Memories
The “Six-Pack”of cubs in Wild Enclosure #4 decided to enter the Acclimation Pen after the potential for storming was over. The curators had opened the gate when the hurricane remnants…
Piccola Bear
Arguably the smallest cub at ABR, little Piccola is in a Wild Enclosure by herself. She was in a fragile state when she had surgery to repair a perforated intestine,…
Night into Day
The cub “six-pack” like to sleep on their platform, which they use as their cubby dormitory and preferred slumber party place. With the night vision cam in their enclosure, we…
Cubs at Work
The bears at ABR have one job at this time of year – to eat! Foraging is their main and most important activity, so they will be ready for their…
Cubs and Rain
ABR got only a small taste of the Hurricane Florence event (thank goodness!) We had lots of rain, though, which made for difficulties with pictures. For the most part the…