Gamble Bear Goes Home!
Another ABR yearling has been released back into the wild. Gamble Bear was taken home on March 8th. Now the ABR yearling population is at 25. We have photos to…
Bears in the Sunshine
You have seen the ABR bears in snow and rain. Today we have bears enjoying the sunshine. It seems as though spring is on its way, and our yearlings, much…
Some “Old Friends”in Wild Enclosures
Today we have some new photos of a few of the 26 yearlings at ABR. We have mentioned before that it is hard to get good photos of recognizable bears. …
What’s for Dinner?
If you are one of the two dozen yearlings in Wild Enclosures at ABR, dinner time is variable. That is so that the little bears don’t get accustomed to a…
Yearling Updates
We finally have a photo of little Skipper Bear in which he is (almost) visible! He was one of the bears who moved yesterday; he is now in an outdoor…
Moving Day
The curators decided that our three most recent arrivals – Julius, Cecilia and Skipper Bear- needed to move to more suitable quarters, so it was Moving Day for the three…
New Photos of Yearlings
With the departure of Derby Bear, the yearling population at ABR is back to 26, which is more bears than we have had at this time of the year since…
Home to Kentucky!
On October 18, 2015 Cub #218 arrived. He was nicknamed Derby Bear, because he was from Kentucky. He weighed 26 pounds back then, and was too small to have survived…
Can You Believe? Bear #251 Arrives!
Just when we thought that we had received our last needy yearling, TWRA Officer Gene Parker notified Curator Janet that he would meet her at the University of Tennessee College…
Yearling Portraits
Every so often, ABR’s photographer of record comes by to take professional “portraits” of the bears. These are taken not only for the aesthetic value but because the high resolution…