April Bear – Making Progress
The injured yearling bear, nicknamed April, has been at ABR for almost a week now, and is making progress toward recovery. She has demonstrated a preference for being outside in…
April Bear in the Recovery Center
Our first bear of 2018, nicknamed April, was hit by a car on the spur road through the park and suffered broken ribs. The vets at the UT College of…
Here’s April Bear!
A few days ago we posted that ABR received the first bear for 2018, and that we’d post a photo as soon as we could. Here is the female yearling,…
The Best Bear Den Ever
ABR Head Curator Coy Blair has been hiking into the back country to retrieve dropped collars. He will tell you that sometimes it is a real challenge, but recently he…
Where Are the Bears?
It’s January. Bears in the Smokies and throughout the country are in dens. Mother bears will soon give birth to the cubs of 2018. Bear cubs are born in the…
The ABR Year in Review – Cubs
Our last post reviewed the ABR lives of our yearlings, Summitt and Dani Bear. This post will focus on the three cubs – Otto, Rollo and Apollo Bear. Each of…
The ABR Year in Review
We are going to review the yearlings and cubs that ABR cared for during 2017. In today’s post we show the two yearlings when they arrived and how they looked…
Signs of Cubs’ Activities
Now that the three cubs have returned to their wild habitat, the curators are finding clues to their behavior and their activities while they were in the Wild Enclosure. These…
Cub Sizes
The three ABR cubs of 2017 have returned to the wild. We posted the news of their release in a series of 3 posts. You may recall that Otto, Rollo…
A Special Video for You
This video is very special. It highlights all three of the ABR cubs who were released on December 4th and shows how they grew during the time they were in…