Bear #246 – Hazel Bear
ABR admitted another malnourished, starving yearling bear – #246, nicknamed Hazel Bear. Hazel is very small, weighing just 12 pounds. That is a typical weight for a three to four…
Checking the Yearlings
With twenty-two yearling bears currently residing at ABR, it is hard to keep up with all of them. Today we have some photos of some of the yearlings in Wild…
Bear #245 Arrives; #244 Disappears!
ABR welcomed bear #245, nicknamed Cornelius Bear. He is a small yearling weighing 18.1 pounds. His checkup at the UT College of Veterinary Medicine showed him to be relatively healthy…
Bear #244 Arrives!
ABR received our 244th bear – since they are now a year old, we can’t say “cub” anymore. #244, nicknamed Bailey Bear, is a female from the Townsend area. As…
Big Day for Star and Joy Bear!
Our two most recent arrivals, Cub #242 (Star Bear) and 243 (Joy Bear) have been released into Wild Enclosure 3, where the smallest cubs (oops – yearlings) are residing. They…
Herbie and Derby Bear
As we have stated before, the curators can only take photos of the yearlings who make themselves visible. The photos are taken when the curator goes to feed the bears,…
Cedar Bear Climbs! and Otis in Snow
The ABR curators were excited when Cedar Bear, the yearling who arrived recently with a head wound and has been recovering in a pen in the garage, actually climbed up…
Snow is Deeper but Bears Don’t Mind
The snow has continued to fall and the ABR yearlings continue to stay in their trees for the most part, although we have a photo of Snowflake Bear high-stepping through…
Cubs Become Yearlings!
This is the assumed, official birthday of our ABR cubs. Black bear cubs are born between mid-January and mid-February, so we use January 22nd as the birthday for our cubs. …
Cubs in Snow
It snowed pretty hard (for Tennessee) and we would have thought that the cubs in the Wild Enclosures would hunker down in one of the dens to get out of…