Tiny Tim and Julius Bear Released!
April was a busy month for releases of the yearlings at ABR. On April 28th, two more of our yearlings were released back into the wild to have their second…
Fergus and Wily Bear
Fergus Bear, our little three-month-old cub, is settled into the Cub Nursery. The curators are hoping he will eat his formula from a bowl, but in case the Cub Feeder…
Bear Cub #254!
Appalachian Bear Rescue admitted another 2016 black bear cub, #254. Nicknamed Fergus Bear, the little male was brought to ABR by a ranger from the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. …
Finnegan Climbs!
Hopefully, you checked out the video we posted about the logs added to The Cub House by Curator Janet, and Finnegan Bear’s reaction when he first discovered the logs. Today…
Finnegan in The Cub House
As Finnegan, our 3-month-old black bear cub gets older, he doesn’t spend quite so much time napping. He is spending more time playing. Play is very important to the growth…
Portraits of Seven Yearlings and One Cub
You may be saying to yourself – “seven yearlings? I thought there were eight.” And you’d be right. There are eight yearlings at ABR since Wily (Bear #253) arrived earlier…
Finnegan and Wily Bear
Today we have photos of our most recent ABR residents, the cub Finnegan Bear and the newest yearling, Wily Bear. Ken LaValley, our photographer of record, took a “portrait” of…
Two More Released Yearlings!
As we promised, this post is about the last releases during the week of April 11th. Today we share the release of Joy and Rufus Bear. Rufus Bear arrived…
Updates on Bears – Finnegan in Cub House!
We’ll take a break from the release posts (we still have to do another one) for updates on three of the bears at ABR. As the title says, little cub…
Three More Yearling Releases
In this post we’ll report on three more yearling bear releases that occurred on April 13th. The three bears were Snowflake, Hazel and Chestnut Bear – three females. Snowflake Bear…